By Jake Donovan

Assuming all parties go through with the terms of the purse bid, the next heavyweight titlist can be crowned as early as January 16.

Warriors Boxing claimed the rights to the vacant International Boxing Federation (IBF) heavyweight title fight between unbeaten contenders Vyacheslav Glazkov and Charles Martin. The Florida-based promotional outfit - who represents Martin - won with a total purse offering of $1,238,000, outbidding Glazkov's promoter, Main Events who submitted a bid of $888,000 during Friday's hearing at IBF headquarters in Springfield, New Jersey.

An interesting development comes in the plan to stage the event. Representatives from Warriors Boxing confirmed to BoxingScene.com that the plan is for the title fight to land on January 16 at Barclays Center in Brooklyn, New York. 

"It's not yet final, but we are trying to work out the logistics to stage two world heavyweight title fights on the same show," Lou Dibella, lead promoter of the Jan. 16 SHOWTIME-televised event said to BoxingScene.com on Friday. "Hopefully we can have an announcement later this afternoon, but it would be incredible to not just have the first world heavyweight championship in Brooklyn in 115 years, but to now have two on the same night."

Headlining the card, Deontay Wilder makes the third defense of his WBC title as he faces Artur Szpilka. The fight was originally offered to Glazkov, only for Main Events to withdraw from negotiations after determining there wasn't enough time for the unbeaten heavyweight contender from Ukraine - who now lives and trains in Ft. Lauderdale, Florida - to prepare for a fight of that magnitude. 

The question now is if four weeks is enough to get ready for a showdow with Martin, an unbeaten southpaw originally from St. Louis who now hails from California. 

Martin entered the title fray at the cost of withdrawing from a planned clash with Dominic Breazeale. The two were due to meet on December 12 in San Antonio, which would have aired live in primetime on NBC. 

A calculated gamble was made on Martin's part to withdraw from the fight, confident that he would land the vacant title shot. Warriorts acted promptly, requesting an immediate purse bid hearing in lieu of negotiation with Glazkov's side.

Main Events made a similar move when Glazkov was due a mandatory title fight with recently crowned heavyweight king Tyson Fury. The New Jersey-based promoter sensed that Fury would enter a rematch with Wladimir Klitschko, whom he defeated in late November to win the crown.

As such, Main Events sought to protect its fighter's best interests. It worked to a degree, as Fury was forced to vacate his IBF strapped as he is locked into a rematch with Klitschko, which is due to take place sometime next spring.

The decision now has to be made as to whether to enter a title fight straight away with Martin, who was already in training for one fight and theoretically has yet to break camp.  

Jake Donovan is the managing editor of BoxingScene.com. Twitter: @JakeNDaBox