BALLARAT will be put on the boxing map nationally with a World Boxing Federation supermiddleweight title fight scheduled for November at the Minerdome.
Geelong's Heath Stenton had aimed to regain his Australian super-middleweight title he lost to Anthony Mundine but has received a better offer with this WBF title fight.
Meanwhile, Stenton fights Tim "KO" Minnis, New Zealand's supermiddleweight champion, at the Minerdome this Sunday to determine who will fight another international fighter for the WBF crown.
Minnis is regarded as the hardest punching boxer to come from New Zealand since TV Ringside star Kalu Marhunga.
The fight will not be easy for Stenton as Minnis has great power and he can take a fighter out with one punch.
Stenton has the experience and Minnis the power.
Promoter Ian Fear said this fight would be a "war of wills".
"It has been confirmed by the world president Mick Croucher that the winner can fight for the vacant WBF world supermiddleweight title."