By Alexey Sukachev

The entire card is ready to go for hyped event, which is set to close the 2015 boxing year in Moscow. Roy Jones Jr. (62-8, 45 KOs) will fight for the first time as a Russian citizen against his most accomplished opponent in years – former WBO cruiserweight champion Enzo Maccarinelli (40-7, 32 KOs).

Jones weighed 197.7-pounds, while Maccarinelli was 192.9-pounds.

The bout will headline a six-fight card, which will be promoted by Vlad Hrunov Promotion (although BoxRec lists Hryunov’s companion Umar Kremlev as an official organizer of the event), and take its place on Dec. 12 at a newly built VTB Ice Palace on the outskirts of the Third Ring Road in Moscow, Russia.

The status of the main event has been changing ever since it was announced a couple of months ago. Firstly, Antonio Tarver was announced as Jones Jr.’s next (and bitter) opponent. When he failing the drug test following his draw against Steve Cunningham, the Welsh veteran was called in as a late booking replacement.

The fight was also believed to be Jones Jr.’s final last attempt at a world title in his fifth weight class, and the WBA 'super' cruiserweight belt was somehow proposed as a prize – but this distinction was later being dismissed by the WBA headquarters.

As a result of the WBA's ruling, this clash will be a non-title twelve-rounder (at least, at this point) unless another sanctioning body is willing to participate.

The American icon is 8-0 since being knocked out cold by his last world-class opponent Denis Lebedev in May 2011. Roy Jones started his comeback with three hard-fought decision wins in 2011-2013, then posted five stoppage victories in a row in 2014 and 2015.

Maccarinelli himself is 2-0, 2 KOs, in 2015, following his latest major setback – a technical knockout loss to WBA light heavyweight champion Juergen Braehmer in April 2014. Prior to that the Welshman managed to get a TKO 7 victory over Courtney Fry – the same fighter, who was stopped by Jones Jr. in five rounds half a year after that.

In one of the feature fights, Ex-WBA interim middleweight champion Dmitry Chudinov (16-1-2, 10 KOs) will be pit against German kayo artist “Iron” Benjamin Simon (26-2, 25 KOs). It’s to be noted that all of Simon’s wins came against limited opposition. When he tried to step up in April this year he was stopped in seven by Karo Murat.