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Stadium, in Cardiff. DeGale, though, will hope his style will trouble Kessler – whose mother is English – and he will fancy his chances of continuing to make the same progress he has made over the past few years.
His last outing saw him take on Marco Antonio Periban in November and while the Mexican did not look in the best shape of his career, the Londoner still impressed as he made short work of his win.
Dirrell, who is No.2 behind DeGale with the IBF and whose younger brother Anthony is the WBC super-middleweight champion, is not keen to come to England and that has paved the way for the meeting with Kessler to take place.
DeGale had hoped that he would meet Froch – his stablemate at Eddie Hearn’s Matchroom Boxing – early this year on the back of that victory over Periban.
But Froch never really gave any serious thought to accepting the challenge, preferring instead to keep chasing Mexican Julio Cesar Chavez for a money-spinning bout in Las Vegas.
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