Jonjo Finnegan has promised he'll send Elvis (Dube) to the Heartbreak Hotel in Birmingham on Monday night (June 13).
The British Masters super-middleweight champion from Burton-on-Trent shockingly slumped to a five-round stoppage defeat at the fists of the stocky Shinfield-handled puncher in February but gets the chance to settle the score at the same venue, the Holiday Inn, on a Pat Cowdell show next week.
Finnegan, 13-6-3, had been unbeaten since 2008 and seemed to have put five sessions in the bag when they met in their six-rounder earlier in the year, tattooing his chunky opponent with accurate threes and fours.
But a series of clubbing rights from Derby-based Dube, who had only won one of his previous seven entering, sensationally sent Jonjo tumbling to the canvas and though he beat the count and appeared able to continue, referee Shaun Messer waived it off.
It ruined the former Irish light-heavyweight title challenger's immediate career plans but a victory in the rematch, again over six, with a heavy-handed scrapper who has gone on to beat capable Rhyl banger Justin Jones could set up the first defence of the Masters title he won against Dean Walker last October.
"It was a pathetic stoppage because i was up at six, ready to carry on fighting and my eyes were clear," reasoned a 31-year-old ex-Burton ABC favourite who reached the ABA quarters in the vest and headguard.
"I pestered Errol [Johnson, trainer and manager] as soon as i left the ring to get me the rematch and he has. It was the only fight i was interested in and until i settle the score he's the only fighter on my mind.
"He won't win a round against me this time. He wasn't winning a single minute of any round last time out until he caught me. That's boxing.
"But i'm going to box his head off," he roared," and then i can look forward to defending my title for the first time at the Meadowide [Leisure Centre, Burton] in September."
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