Ellesmere Port's undefeated boxing star Paul Butler will challenge IBF world super-flyweight champion Zolani Tete in March.
Butler beat Stuart Hall in June to win the IBF world bantamweight title, but then gave up that belt in a bid to become a two-weight world champ.
He was originally due to face Tete in October but fight was shelved when the South African broke his left hand in training.
Promoter Frank Warren announced on Tuesday that Butler would get his man at the ECHO Arena in Liverpool on Friday, March 6.
Should he beat Tete, Butler will be the first British boxer in over 100 years to win a second world title at a lighter weight.
Warren said: "I believe that Paul is a super-talent and I'm especially pleased to deliver him a second and history making world title opportunity against Tete which should have happened in October.
"He gets the chance now and I'm sure he'll grab the opportunity with both hands."
Butler dominated Tete's stand-in Ismael Garnica over 10 rounds in October and the 26-year-old is confident he can dethrone Eastern Cape native Tete, who beat Teiru Kinoshita to win the title in July.
Tete has won 19 of his 22 fights with 16 of those wins coming inside the scheduled distance.
Butler said: "Tete’s not a world champion for nothing. He’s a class fighter and well schooled boxer who does everything well.
"He’s the kind of fighter no-one wants: a tall, long southpaw who can punch. He’s had 16 stoppages from 19.
"He does not come to mess around, he comes to put you down but I think that suits me. He comes to fight and I come to fight, so people will see a different side to me. I will be pressing on him, sitting on his chest and banging away at his body in the same way Ricky Hatton used to."
