George Kambosos Jr. hasn’t definitively won a fight since the night his career completely changed in November 2021.

The Australian veteran nevertheless will continue to maximize the opportunities created by that life-altering victory over Teofimo Lopez three years ago. Promoter Eddie Hearn informed The Ring that if the former unified lightweight champion wins in his full junior welterweight debut March 22 that Kambosos (21-3, 10 KOs) will challenge unbeaten IBF 140-pound champion Richardson Hitchins in his following fight.

Hitchins-Kambosos could happen as soon as a date to be determined in June. The preferred venue for Hitchins-Kambosos would be The Theater at Madison Square Garden in New York, where a determined Kambosos overcame a 10th-round knockdown to upset Lopez by split decision.

Hearn and Lou DiBella, whose companies co-promote Kambosos, hadn’t secured Kambosos’s opponent or a venue for March 22 in his hometown of Sydney at the time this story was posted. Kambosos will box in Sydney for the first time since he beat Brandon Ogilvie (then 17-1-1) by unanimous decision in their 12-rounder in December 2016 at Luna Park.

“We’re finalizing the opponent,” Hearn told The Ring. “We don’t have an opponent yet, but we’re looking for a solid fight at 140. We want to try and move forward with Hitchins and Kambosos. So, he’ll fight March 22 in Sydney in a comeback fight at 140. And if he performs there and gets a good win, we could look to do a Hitchins fight in the summer.”

Kambosos has won only one of his four fights since he surprisingly topped Lopez (21-1, 13 KOs), who owns The Ring and WBO junior welterweight titles.

Former undisputed lightweight champ Devin Haney (31-0, 15 KOs, 1 NC) dominated Kambosos in back-to-back 12-round, 135-pound title fights that he won by unanimous decision in 2022. Kambosos subsequently edged English southpaw Maxi Hughes (28-7-2, 6 KOs) by majority decision before three-weight world champion Vasiliy Lomachenko (18-3, 12 KOs) stopped Kambosos in the 11th round of his last match May 12 at RAC Arena in Perth, Australia.

Brooklyn’s Hitchins, meanwhile, delivered the type of superb performance December 7 most boxing experts and enthusiasts expected once the 2016 Haitian Olympian completed the developmental phase of his career. Hitchins (19-0, 7 KOs) thoroughly outboxed another Australian, then-unbeaten southpaw Liam Paro (25-1, 15 KOs), that night to win the IBF junior welterweight title at Roberto Clemente Coliseum in San Juan, Puerto Rico.

“I thought it was a great performance,” Hearn said. “I think there’s a lotta upside with Hitchins. Young man, great story, out of Brooklyn, same kinda mold as Devin, Shakur [Stevenson] and those boys. And I think Kambosos would be a great opponent in that fight, a great dance partner, because it’s a competitive fight, he talks a great game and he’s got a good profile.”

Hitchins, 27, is ranked fourth in The Ring’s junior welterweight top 10. Kambosos, 31, is not ranked in the top 10 by The Ring at lightweight or junior welterweight.