By Keith Idec

Deontay Wilder will get an up-close look at a potential opponent Saturday night.

BoxingScene.com has learned that the WBC heavyweight champion has agreed to join FOX’s broadcast team for the network’s tripleheader from Barclays Center in Brooklyn. The 12-main event will feature a veteran heavyweight Wilder already has knocked out, Chris Arreola, and another, Adam Kownacki, that Wilder could encounter sometime in 2020 at Barclays Center.

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Wilder will join former heavyweight champion Lennox Lewis and blow-by-blow announcer Kenny Albert at ringside.

Wilder will fill in for Joe Goossen as part of FOX’s broadcast team. Goossen is Arreola’s trainer.

Unlike the Manny Pacquiao-Keith Thurman/Caleb Plant-Mike Lee event July 20 in Las Vegas, Goossen will not pull double duty for FOX’s three-bout broadcast Saturday night.

Wilder was part of FOX’s broadcast team July 20 as well, but he offered his analysis from an event desk inside MGM Grand Garden Arena. The unbeaten knockout artist didn’t call fights from ringside that night.

In addition to the main event between Brooklyn’s Kownacki (19-0, 15 KOs) and Arreola (38-5-1, 33 KOs, 2 NC), of Riverside, California, FOX will air a light heavyweight championship match that’ll send Staten Island’s Marcus Browne (23-0, 16 KOs), the WBA’s interim 175-pound champion, against former WBC champ Jean Pascal (33-6-1, 20 KOs, 1 NC), of Laval, Quebec.

In the opener of the tripleheader, Brooklyn’s Curtis Stevens (30-6, 22 KOs) and Nigeria’s Wale Omotoso (27-4, 21 KOs, 1 NC) will square off in a 10-round junior middleweight match. The telecast is set to start at 8 p.m. ET/5 p.m. PT.

If the heavily favored Kownacki wins, he’ll remain in line for a title shot. That championship chance could come later than expected, though, because Wilder will participate in back-to-back rematches with Luis Ortiz and Tyson Fury if the 33-year-old Wilder’s schedule unfolds as planned.

Wilder (41-0-1, 40 KOs) and Cuba’s Ortiz (31-1, 26 KOs, 2 NC) are expected to fight again in the fall, perhaps November 9. The Wilder-Ortiz rematch will be distributed by Showtime Pay-Per-View.

Keith Idec is a senior writer/columnist for BoxingScene.com. He can be reached on Twitter @Idecboxing.