HANNAH RANKIN has revealed who she’ll be fighting later this year as she bids to become a world champion for the second time.

Sparks are set to fly after the Luss boxer announced last week that she’ll take on Sweden’s Maria Lindberg for the WBA world super welterweight title on Friday, November 5.

The highly experienced Lindberg, 44, has a professional career dating back to July 2003 and has won titles at middleweight and light-middleweight level, though she’s never competed for a super-welterweight belt before.

A venue has yet to be announced, though the bout will be televised live on the subscription channel FightzoneTV, with Rankin and Lindberg’s contest the headline fight.

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Announcing the date of the fight on Instagram, the former Hermitage Academy pupil said: “I expect a tough fight and I expect us to put on a show for you all. This is going to be fun!”

Rankin revealed last month that she’d be headlining an all-female card before the end of the year, having stepped back from the ring and into the commentator’s booth for the ‘Rise of the Champions’ event at Hamilton Academical FC’s Fountain of Youth Stadium on July 31.

Lindberg is something of a trailblazer in European female pro boxing, having had to move to the United States in order to obtain the licence that enabled her to turn pro in 2003, four years after suffering a brain haemorrhage in an amateur fight.

Her last fight was in April this year against Savannah Marshall, the same opponent who beat Rankin last October for the vacant WBO female middleweight title – and as with last autumn’s fight, Marshall proved too hot for her opponent to handle, inflicting Lindberg’s only ever knockout defeat.