Twice former WBO heavyweight champion Herbie Hide is being lined up to make his comeback at Hull City Hall on February 5.
Hide, who has not fought since losing the WBO title to the Ukranian Vitali Klitschko in two rounds in his second term as champion in June, 1999, is now being trained by Darkie Smith at the Lennox Lewis Centre in Hackney.
"I would like him to fight on the February 5 Panix show in Hull. That will only happen though if he gets some decent sparring in first, so we are looking to bring some partners in", Smith told British Boxing.com.
"He hasn't lost anything, he still has all his speed, sharpness and ability. He has looked good in training and we are looking to get him out soon".
Hide also spent a lengthy time out of the ring after losing his WBO crown the first time - to Riddick Bowe in Las Vegas in March, 1995. He returned 16 months later and regained the WBO title in mid-1997.
British middleweight champion and world title contender Howard Eastman tops the Hull show with a defence of his Commonwealth belt against Australia's Ian McLeod.
McLeod was flown from Australia to fight Eastman at York Hall, Bethnal Green last Saturday, but did not arrive within 48 hours of the bout and was ruled out by the Boxing Board of Control. McLeod will remain in Britain and train for the new date.
Bulgaria's Tontcho Tontchev, who destroyed Russia's Anatoly Alexandrov to land the vacant European super-featherweight title in 38 seconds at York Hall while Eastman sat out the show, is hunting British champion Michael Gomez.
"Lennox Lewis v Mike Tyson is hard to make because both boxers appear on separate television channels, but Gomez and Tontchev are with Sky television and I'm sure the promoters can work together on this one", said Tontchev's manager Phillipe Fondu.
The Bulgarian's rapid victory trust him into the leading contender's spot for the WBA title of Cuba's Joel Cassamayor.