By Edward Chaykovsky
Promoter Eddie Hearn of Matchroom Sports is being swarmed with several lucrative fight options for his new world champion, IBF super middleweight king James "Chunky" DeGale (21-1, 14KOs).
DeGale capture the title last Saturday night with a twelve round decision win over Andre Dirrell in Boston. He is being scheduled to return on an October date in London.
One possible option for DeGale is former two division world champion Bernard 'The Alien' Hopkins (55-7-2, 32KOs).
Hopkins, 50-years-old, has been out of the ring since losing a twelve round decision in his light heavyweight unification with Sergey Kovalev last November.
After that defeat, Hopkins expressed great interest in moving down to the super middleweight division to capture one last world title before retiring. Hopkins, who unified the entire middleweight division, skipped over the 168 weight class and went directly to 175 in 2006.
Hopkins had tried his best to get a fight with Carl Froch earlier this year. DeGale now owns the world title Froch vacated.
There are other options for DeGale, - like former world champions Lucian Bute and Mikkel Kessler. Both Bute and Kessler have been out of the ring for quite a while. Kessler has been inactive for two years and Bute has not fought since last January.
"Golden Boy has come on and talked about Bernard Hopkins. And everyone has been on me now....Kessler, Bute. Greats fights for him in the division. All of those names, there are some interesting fights in the division. Like I've said, he'll be back in October to defend his title," Hearn told BoxingScene.com/Be Real TV in a recent interview.