Carl Frampton will get the chance to become a three-weight world champion later this year.

The former WBA and IBF super-bantamweight world champion, who has also won a WBA belt at featherweight, is set to meet a world champion up at super-featherweight in a few months’ time.

Frampton is hoping that the clash against Jamel Herring, the American who holds the WBO crown at 130 pounds, will take place at Windsor Park, although the indoor SSE Arena is also an option.

The date of June 13 has long been mooted and promoter Frank Warren revealed on Wednesday that the fight is now closer than ever after disclosing that terms for the fight have been agreed.

“News on [the] date and [the venue] of the fight [will be] coming soon,” said Warren via his official Twitter account.

Herring, a former US marine, has a record of 21-2 with 10 quick and has made one defence of the title he won back in May 2019 with a victory over Masayuki Ito.

The good news of a potential fight announcement comes just two days after the British Boxing Board of Control cancelled all public tournaments under its jurisdiction due to the coronavirus pandemic with the situation set to be reviewed in April.

“This is huge. To be the challenger fighting for a world title at home is just great. When it was first talked about and hinted at after I’d beaten Tyler McCreary in my last fight, I didn’t imagine it’d be in Belfast," Frampton said.

“I’m delighted to be fighting in my city and hopefully once the coronavirus madness has all passed, we can get it sealed and have the fight. It’s good to have a small bit of good news with this fight being agreed but there are more important things than boxing. People’s health is more important than me and Herring having a fight so it’s important we do this right.”

Warren has pushed back his big five-belt heavyweight clash between Daniel Dubois and Joe Joyce as a result of the crisis. It had been set to happen on April 11 at the O2 Arena in London, exclusively live on BT Sport Box Office, but the main event, plus the undercard, has now been rescheduled for July 11 at the same venue.

Josh Taylor’s return, in an IBF, WBA and Ring Magazine super-lightweight world title mandatory defence against Thailand’s Apinun Khongsong, was scheduled for May 2 at the SSE Hydro in Glasgow, Scotland and that will be rearranged as Warren works in conjunction with Top Rank and MTK Global, while Warren’s promotional rival Eddie Hearn has decided to move his Newcastle card and postpone his Doncaster card.

Lewis Ritson will meet Miguel Vazquez at the Utilita Arena, with Savannah Marshall challenging for the WBO female light-heavyweight title against Geovana Peres, but that has been pushed back to June 27, while a new date is awaited for Natasha Jonas’ WBC and IBO female super-featherweight title challenge against Terri Harper at the Doncaster Dome having originally been scheduled for April 24.

As it stands, Dillian Whyte’s WBC interim heavyweight title defence against Alexander Povetkin on May 2 at Manchester Arena still goes ahead with a stellar supporting cast including Callum Johnson’s clash against Igor Mikhalkin for the vacant European light-heavyweight title, Katie Taylor’s defence of her WBA, WBC, IBF, WBO and Ring Magazine world female lightweight titles against former seven-weight world champion Amanda Serrano and the return of Zelfa Barrett, the new Matchroom Boxing signing who currently holds the Commonwealth super-featherweight title, while the O2 Arena clash on May 23 between Oleksandr Usyk and Derek Chisora is still on.

Further details regarding coronavirus and boxing will be revealed in due course.