Middleweight rivals Bernard Hopkins and Oscar De La Hoya are set to meet after both boxers won their fights in Las Vegas in the early hours of this morning.
The bout is now expected to go ahead on September 18th for a purse that media reports say will be in excess of $30 million.
Thirty-nine-year-old Hopkins (44-2-1), the WBC, WBA and IBF world middleweight champion, earned a unanimous points victory over top-rated IBF contender Robert Allen in the first of the two fights, giving him 18 successful title defences in a row.
Allen (36-5), a former Marine, hit the canvas several times but was only in danger of being counted out once when he was sent tumbling following a hard right in the seventh.
De La Hoya (37-3), who was making his middleweight debut after losing his last fight to Shane Mosley, had to rally to outpoint previously undefeated German Felix Sturm to claim the WBO title on the same card.
Sturm (20-1), an Olympian in 2000 who was making his North American debut, was a substantial underdog.