Mike Tyson could face heavyweight world champion Lennox Lewis in Atlanta in June after being granted a licence to fight in Georgia.
Plans for the original bout, scheduled for Las Vegas in April, were scrapped when the Nevada State Athletic Commission refused to allow Tyson back into the ring there after a scuffle at a news conference in which Lewis claims Tyson bit him.
A spokesman for the Georgia Boxing Commission told BBC Radio 5 Live: "Shelly Finkel, Mr Tyson's manager, contacted my office, he asked if I would send him a licence application that he could get Mr Tyson to fill out.
"I said sure. I sent it to him, Mr Tyson filled it out, they sent me the required medicals, they sent me the money, we issued the licence."