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Kevin Mitchell and Lee Selby get O2 Arena title shots

Nick Parkinson
March 19, 2015
Kevin Mitchell has won his last six fights © Getty Images
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Kevin Mitchell and Lee Selby have secured home advantage for their respective world title shots at the O2 Arena in London on May 30.

Promoter Eddie Hearn has moved the bill he intended to put on at the Greenwich venue on April 25 to May 30 after losing the purse bid for British super-middleweight James DeGale's IBF world title fight with American Andre Ward.

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Londoner Mitchell, 30, takes on Jorge Linares for the Venezuelan's WBC lightweight crown, while Welshman Selby, 28, fights Russian Evgeny Gradovich for the IBF featherweight title.

Also on the bill is 2012 Olympic gold medalist Anthony Joshua - unbeaten in ten fights as a professional - in a heavyweight bout with American Kevin Johnson, a former world title challenger.

"I'm delighted to deliver shots for Kevin and Lee in the UK and they have every chance of becoming world champions on May 30," Hearn said.

"Linares is an incredible fighter, a three-weight world ruler, but Kevin has been exceptional with us and I truly believe he is going to do it.

"Lee has been virtually punch-perfect over the last few years but now it's his moment against one of the best fighters in the division in Gradovich."

It will be Selby's first world title shot against unbeaten Gradovich while Mitchell has revived his career since losing to Scotsman Ricky Burns for the WBO version of the world title in 2012.

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