By Elliot Foster

Guillermo Rigondeaux will fight in the UK next month.

The Cuban sensation had been due to grace these shores with his presence in March, but he failed to obtain a visa allowing him to enter the country.

Rigondeaux, however, now has a visa, and will box in Wales on July 16, exclusively live on BoxNation. Having been granted a visa on May 12, ‘El Chacal’, 35, will make an appearance at the Cardiff Ice Arena.

‘Rigo’ (16-0, 10 KOs) will face 25-year-old Jazza Dickens (22-1, 7 KOs), the man he was meant to come up against in Liverpool over 10 rounds, as part of the undercard to Liam Williams’ British & Commonwealth super-welterweight title defence against Gary Corcoran.

Dickens was last in action on March 12, at Liverpool’s ECHO Arena, against Reynaldo Cajina, who he retired after six of a scheduled eight rounds, while Rigondeaux won the vacant WBC International Silver crown at the weight with a points win over Drian Francisco in the States last November.

The fight was described by the Queensberry Promotions press office as a “huge fight, involving a pound-for-pound superstar” and will head an undercard that also features Bradley Skeete, the British and Commonwealth welterweight champion, in a defence of his WBO European crown and Tommy Langford defending his WBO Inter-Continental middleweight belt.

Elsewhere on the bill, Southampton’s red-hot Joe Pigford looks to extend his unbeaten run to 11 fights, while there is action for Welshmen Craig Evans, Alex Hughes and Jay Harris, who all look to impress in front of their home crowd.