Top Rank has officially announced that a showdown between Vasyl Lomachenko and Guillermo Rigondeaux has been finalized for an ESPN televised date of December 9 at Madison Square Garden in New York City.
The fight matches two fighters who are regarded as two of the best amateurs in history - which each fighter winning two Olympic gold medals.
Rigondeaux (17-0, 11 KOs) was last seen in the ring back in June, as part of the HBO Pay-Per-View undercard to Andre Ward vs. Sergey Kovalev II. He knocked out mandatory challenger Moises Flores in the first round, but the outcome was later changed to a no-contest after it was determined by the Nevada State Athletic Commission that Rigondeaux's knockout blow had come after the bell.
Lomachenko (9-1, 7 KOs) defended his title last month, as the headliner of an ESPN televised card, with a stoppage victory in a one-sided blowout of Miguel Marriaga, who was moving up from the featherweight ranks.
Rigondeaux, who holds the WBA's super bantamweight title at 122-pounds, would move up by two weight divisions to challenge Lomachenko for the WBO super featherweight title at 130-pounds. He was ordered by the WBA have a rematch with Flores, but that contest will be put on hold until some point in 2018.
The fight has been discussed by most hardcore fans and pundits for several years. Most felt the fight was impossible to make when Lomachenko moved up from the featherweight division last year. But Rigondeaux began to call for the fight - regardless of the weight class and their respective promoters, Top Rank and Roc Nation Sports, began to negotiate the terms.