Australian and New Zealand boxers will figure prominently in significant televised fights on U.S. soil over a one-month period starting next week.

It all begins July 26th when Australian Daniel Geale will challenge undefeated WBA middleweight champion Gennady Golovkin at Madison Square Garden in an HBO fight.

On August 2, Australian Blake Caparello will challenge undefeated WBO light heavyweight champion Sergey Kovalev in Atlantic City on HBO.

On August 9, Australian Jarrod Fletcher will take on Daniel Jacobs for the vacant WBA “regular” middleweight title at Barclays Center in Brooklyn, NY on Showtime.

Also on August 9, New Zealand light heavyweight Robert “The Butcher” Berridge takes on Vasily Lepikhin (15-0, 8 KOs) and undefeated Kiwi heavyweight Joseph Parker (9-0, 8 KOs) faces TBA on NBCSN Fight Night from the Sands Casino Resort in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania.

On August 16, Australian WBC super middleweight champion Sakio Bika will defend against undefeated Anthony Dirrell in a rematch at StubHub Center near Los Angeles on Showtime.

Finally, on August 22 Australian Daniel Dawson takes on former light middleweight world champion Austin Trout at a Southern California venue to be named in ESPN2′s final Friday Bight Fights telecast of 2014.

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