The Ring has confirmed multiple reports that state Ennis, who owns the WBA and WBO belts, and Kelly, the IBF champ, will square off February 27 at State Farm Arena in Atlanta. The bout will be streamed by DAZN internationally and broadcast by TNT and truTV in the United States as part of the network’s partnership with DAZN.

Eddie Hearn, whose promotional company Matchroom Boxing represents Ennis and Kelly, acknowledged late in the summer that an agreement was in place for this bout. England’s Kelly (19-1-1, 9 KOs) will box in the United States for the third time when he faces Philadelphia’s Ennis (36-0, 32 KOs).

Ennis. 29. is The Ring’s No. 1 contender for its unclaimed junior middleweight title and No. 9 on the pound-for-pound list. Kelly 32, is ranked No. 6 among The Ring’s 154-pound contenders.

The winner will need only one more title to become undisputed champion. Sebastian Fundora (25-1-1, 17 KOs) stated after he stopped mandatory challenger Ermal Hadribeaj (23-1-1, 8 KOs) late in the 12th round October 17 that he wants to defend his WBC belt against the Ennis-Kelly winner in 2027.

Ennis, a former Ring, IBF and WBA welterweight champ, won his WBA and WBO championships from Xander Zayas on June 27. He dropped Puerto Rico’s Zayas (23-1, 13 KOs) three times — once apiece in the first, fifth and seventh rounds — on his way to a seventh-round technical KO.

Kelly fought through a gruesome gash over his right eye and cuts across his nose and under his left eye to unanimously outpoint Northern Ireland’s Caoimhin Agyarko (18-1, 7 KOs) in his last fight July 25. That marked Kelly’s first defense of the belt he won when he upset Russia’s Bakhram Murtazaliev (23-1, 17 KOs) by majority decision January 31.