By Luke Furman

HBO has officially announced that Adrien Broner (24-0, 20KOs) will challenge WBC lightweight champion Antonio DeMarco (28-2-1, 21KOs) on November 17th. The championship match is going to take place at the Boardwalk Hall in Atlantic City. Broner makes the full leap to the lightweight ranks and wants his second divisional title. DeMarco is riding a good streak of wins with TKO victories over Jorge Linares, Miguel Roman and most recently John Molina.

Luke Furman covers boxing for bokser.org.