Press Release: Arena Box-Promotion has won the purse bid for the WBC cruiserweight eliminator between ex-WBO heavyweight titlist Herbie Hide and Matt Godfrey. The fight will most probably take place in late March or early April. The winner of the elimination bout will then face the winner of the WBC cruiserweight fight between titlist Giacobe Fragomeni and Krystzof Wlodarczyk.

If he can beat Godfrey Hide would not only opening up the door for earning big money at the end of his long and successful career. The “Dancing Destroyer” could also make history becoming the first former world heavyweight champion to go down to cruiserweight to win a world title.