Thomas 'The Natural' Costello will now meet Danny Butler for the vacant English middleweight championship at Wolverhampton Civic Hall.
Costello had been paired with Tony Hill for the St Georges belt vacated by Nick 'Bang Bang' Blackwell, but the Southampton southpaw has decided to campaign at super-middleweight.
Costello, Butler and undercard fighters including flyweight hope Nathan Reeve will follow in the footsteps of British boxing greats when they box at the famous Black Country fight venue on Saturday, March 9.
Promoter PJ Rowson's show will celebrate 70 years of professional boxing at Wolverhampton Civic Hall.
The first show there was on March 8, 1943, and was topped by Jack London. The following year, he beat Freddie Mills for the British heavyweight title.
Maurice Cullen won the first British-title fight held at the Civic Hall by outpointing Viv Andreetti in defence of his lightweight title on November 30, 1965, and Maurice Hope, Bunny Johnson, Pat Cowdell, Pat Barrett, Hugh Forde, Wayne Elcock and Enzo Maccarinelli all won British-title battles.
Back in the 1960s, heavyweight hero Henry Cooper recorded a pair of spectacular one-round knockouts at the Civic Hall.
More recently, Elcock kept his British middleweight title with a cuts win over local favourite Darren McDermott and Enzo Maccarinelli outslugged Shane McPhilbin for the British cruiserweight belt in another thriller.
World champions Dennis Andries, Chris Pyatt and Joe Calzaghe all boxed at the venue.
Calzaghe stopped kickboxing champ Trevor Ambrose in two rounds in November 1994 when Richie Woodhall topped the bill. He defended his Commonwealth middleweight title with an 11th-round stoppage of Art Serwano.
Rowson stages regular value-for-money shows at Wolverhampton Civic Hall and fight fans have seen fight-of-the-year contenders including Steve Saville-Baz Carey and Mark Lloyd-AA Lowe.
The undercard on March 9 also includes Chris Male, back in the ring after losing a terrific English-title scrap to Josh Warrington, and unbeatens Ricky Summers, Redditch's Andrew Robinson, Lance Brooks, Luke Paddock and Cannock ticket-seller Dave Egan, a spectacular knock-out winner in his last fight.
Stourbridge powerhouse Steven Pearce also gets back in the ring following last week's welterweight 'Prizefighter.'
Tickets, priced at £35 and £55, are available from Box Office 0870 320 7000 and more information is available from 07976-283157.
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