Australia’s Karim Maatalla is to fight fellow cruiserweight Goran Babic, the Swedish-Serbian, on April 12 at the Melbourne Pavilion in Melbourne, Australia.

The 27-year-old Maatalla, 8-2 (8KOs), stopped Joshua Francis of New Zealand in March. Babic, 33 years old and 9-2-2 (5KOs), outpointed Stefan Mihailov, of Serbia, over six rounds in November. 

In his previous fight Babic was stopped inside a round by Jonathan Kogasso, of the Democratic Republic of Congo. 

He suffered a ligaments injury in the process of recording that defeat, and yet returned to fight and beat Mihailov in under seven months.