Hoss fight! All domestic German (naturalized Bosniak Serbian and jus soli Turkish Kurd, respectively) beef, no less! The vacant EBU heavyweight title will be on the line. It was previously held by Joseph Obey Joyce, whom Kabayel balked at challenging, and whose name has been linked with either Kubrat Pulev or Luis Ortíz next. They are basically the co-mandatory for the belt, with both Huck and Kabayel having been elevated off the ratings board as 'challengers' with Joyce now listed as the #1 contender in the latest EBU ratings. There was a purse bid scheduled for today but they were able to negotiate without needing to go to it. The venue and date sometime by year's end will "TBA soon", and the poll will be updated when that happens. NYE is just a fill-in date chosen arbitrarily. The "where" can be safely assumed to be in Deutschland.
These guys, although both well below world championship tier and probably hitting their respective ceilings (Huck especially at 40 years old) at this EBU belt, are far likelier IMO than Whyte & Vallin, or Wilder & Fury in their rubber match, or any other pair in Q4 to give us a heavyweight FOTY contender.
Ağıt Kabayel vs. Evgenios "Achilles" Lazaridis, July 2020: This content is protected Muamer Hukić vs. Dennis Lewandowski, August 2020: This content is protected
Still no date but per Wett Freunde, they have localized the period of January to March of 2022 for when this vacant EBU title clash will take place - and confirmed it will be in Germany, but not specifically what part.
There is no announcement because the fight is off and not gonna happen anytime soon. Kabayel vs. Kossobutskiy is in the making.