The much-anticipated superfight between Australian Danny Green and American legend Roy Jones Jnr will be staged at Sydney's Acer Arena at Homebush on Wednesday December 2.
Host broadcaster Fox Sports announced the date on Thursday for what will be the biggest fight staged in Australia since 36,000 fans watched Azumah Nelson defeat Jeff Fenech at Melbourne's Princes Park in March, 1992.
The announcement of the date ends months of speculation as Jones Jnr - one of the greatest fighters of the past 20 years - will fight outside the United States for the first time in a professional career that began way back in 1989.
The pair will clash for Green's IBO cruiserweight world title as Jones Jnr looks to win yet another title having already claimed belts as a middleweight, super middleweight, light heavyweight and even heavyweight when he won the WBA heavyweight crown in his only fight in boxing's most glamorous division in 2003 by defeating John Ruiz.
While he will turn 41 just weeks after the bout with Green, Jones is still a formidable force and defended his North American light heavyweight crown against highly-regarded Jeff Lacy in his last bout in mid August.
Green, himself a world champion in two separate weight divisions at light heavyweight and cruiserweight, fought on that same card in Biloxi, Mississippi when he stopped Julio Caesar Dominguez in five rounds.
That was only the 36-year-old's third fight back in his comeback which began in February 2009 after he announced his retirement as reigning WBA light heavyweight champion in March, 2008.
For Green, whose record is 27 wins (24 knockouts) and three losses from 30 fights, this will be his second mega-fight following his famous loss to fellow Australian Anthony Mundine on a points decision in the lighter super middleweight division in what was a non-title fight in Sydney in May, 2006.
But the 12-round bout with Jones - whose record stands at 54 wins (40 knockouts) and five losses from 59 fights - promises to be even bigger than the Mundine fight given Jones' huge worldwide appeal.
The stylish American was named 'Fighter of the Decade' for the 1990's by the prestigious Boxing Writers Association of America and was labelled by Green at Thursday's fight announcement as 'the best fighter to ever visit our shores.'
"There is no doubt he is one of the sport's all time greats, but at the end of the day he is coming out here to knock me out on my turf, in front of my family," Green said.
"That's all the motivation I need. I've been in this sport too long and worked too hard to have it all taken away and come December I'll show Roy and the rest of the world the champion I am."
Jones Jnr, speaking from Pensacola, Florida, said he saw Green merely as a stepping stone to a possible challenge to heavyweight champion Wladimir Klitschko or a big money rematch with arch-rival Bernard Hopkins.
And while Jones Jnr could make bigger money by fighting in the lucrative US market, it was the chance to add the only title to so far elude the eight-time champion - the cruiserweight crown - that made a fight with Green and a trip to Australia so tempting.
"Danny is a good fighter, but he's not me," Jones Jnr said.
"He saw what I did to Jeff Lacy