By Elliot Foster

Lawrence Okolie has had his third professional antagonist identified.

The Hackney cruiserweight, who is 2-0 with two early in the paid code since turning over in March, will fight in front of 30,000 people this weekend.

Okolie, 24, will box on the undercard of Kell Brook’s IBF welterweight world title defence against Errol Spence Jr. on Saturday (May 27) at Bramall Lane in Sheffield.

He has just two minutes and 56 seconds of combined ring time under his belt since turning professional and he will be looking to make short work of a former scheduled foe.

The undefeated Olympian was meant to come up against Russell Henshaw (7-4, 2 KOs) on his professional debut on March 25, as part of the undercard to Jorge Linares’ world lightweight title victory against Anthony Crolla at Manchester Arena, but the 32-year-old Ilkeston man was forced out of the fight after being stopped in his previous outing.

The showdown was then rescheduled for the Sky Sports Box Office-aired card at Wembley Stadium which was topped by Anthony Joshua’s world heavyweight title unification clash against Wladimir Klitschko and watched on site by 90,000.

However, the fight didn’t happen that night, either, after it was revealed that Okolie wouldn’t box due to time constraints.

So it seems it will be third time lucky for Okolie vs. Henshaw on the Brook-Spence bill.

The two aforementioned fights will be flanked by the professional debut of Commonwealth Games gold medal winner Anthony Fowler and the third outing in the paid code of ‘Welsh Wizard’ Joe Cordina.

Elsewhere on the card, George Groves and Fedor Chudinov meet in a clash for the Super WBA world title at super-middleweight and David Allen gets the chance to win his first belt in the paid code as he faces Lenroy Thomas for the vacant Commonwealth heavyweight crown.

Andy Townend and Jon Kays will contest the vacant rainbow belt in the super-featherweight division, while a whole host of Ingle Gym fighters and stablemates of world champion Brook –– in the shape of Nadeem Siddique, Atif Shafiq and Kyle Yousaf, who faces former English flyweight champion Louis Norman –– will see action alongside Jamie Cox, who faces Lewis Taylor for the vacant WBA Inter-Continental super-middleweight title on his Matchroom Boxing debut.

Watch Brook vs Spence Jr, from Bramall Lane, Sheffield, on May 27, live on Sky Sports Box Office. You can book the event online by visiting http://www.skysports.com/brook.