Australian boxer Daniel Geale is expected to announce one of the biggest fights of his career this week, a big-money match-up against Puerto Rican star Miguel Cotto in New York in June.
Puerto Rico newspaper El Vocero reports that WBC middleweight champion Cotto will defend his belt for the first time against the 34-year-old Tasmanian at the Barclays Center in Brooklyn - the home of the NBA's Brooklyn Nets - in a fight televised on HBO in the United States.
The deal looks likely to be announced in New York on Wednesday.
It will be a big coup for Geale (31-3) to land such a fight, having lost his two bouts in the US over the past two years.
He was knocked out by Kazakhstan's Gennady Golovkin for the WBA (Super) and IBO middleweight titles in New York last July and lost his IBF middleweight title to England's Darren Barker in New Jersey in 2013.
Geale's last bout was a 12-round win over Australian Jarrod Fletcher in Sydney last December.
Cotto (39-4) is a classy, orthodox boxer who has won world titles in four different weight classes since 2003.
The 34-year-old's rare losses include ones to Floyd Mayweather in 2012 at super light middleweight level and to Philippines legend Manny Pacquiao at welterweight level.
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