Shakur Stevenson has an opponent for an upcoming bout that’ll help keep him busy while he awaits the Jamel Herring-Carl Frampton winner.

BoxingScene.com has confirmed Stevenson will battle Toka Kahn Clary in a 10-round junior lightweight fight December 12 at MGM Grand Conference Center in Las Vegas. Stevenson-Kahn Clary replaced Miguel Berchelt-Oscar Valdez as the main event that night because Berchelt tested positive for COVID-19.

Top Rank Inc., the company that promotes Berchelt, Valdez and Stevenson, is in the process of finalizing a new date for the Berchelt-Valdez fight for Berchelt’s WBC super featherweight title. Stevenson volunteered to fight on five weeks’ notice once the Berchelt-Valdez fight was postponed.

ESPN.com’s Cameron Wolfe first reported that Kahn Clary agreed to fight Stevenson in a main event ESPN will televise.

The co-feature December 12 will pit Puerto Rican lightweight contender Felix Verdejo (27-1, 17 KOs) against Japan’s Masayoshi Nakatani (18-1, 12 KOs) in a 10-rounder. Super middleweight prospect Edgar Berlanga (15-0, 15 KOs), a knockout artist from Brooklyn, will face an undetermined opponent as part of ESPN’s tripleheader December 12 as well.

The 23-year-old Stevenson (14-0, 8 KOs), a former WBO featherweight champion, is the WBO’s mandatory challenger for Herring’s junior lightweight title.

Cincinnati’s Herring (22-2, 10 KOs) is expected to make a voluntary defense against Northern Ireland’s Frampton (28-2, 16 KOs) in his next fight. Published reports have indicated the Herring-Frampton fight could take place as soon as December 19.

Stevenson wants the winner in his following fight, which the WBO has ruled must take place within 90 days of Herring-Frampton.

The 2016 Olympic silver medalist will fight for the second time at the junior lightweight limit December 12. The Newark, New Jersey, native made his 130-pound debut June 9, when Stevenson knocked out Puerto Rico’s Felix Caraballo (13-3-2, 9 KOs) in the sixth round with a body shot at MGM Grand Conference Center.

The 28-year-old Kahn Clary (28-2, 19 KOs, 1 NC) stopped journeyman Jonathan Perez (38-26, 30 KOs, 1 NC) in the second round October 29 in Warwick, Rhode Island.

Kahn Clary, a southpaw from Providence, agreed to battle unbeaten Abraham Nova in a fight ESPN was to televise June 25 from MGM Grand Conference Center. Kahn Clary abruptly pulled out of that fight about three weeks earlier for personal reasons.

Nova (19-0, 14 KOs), of Albany, New York, instead out-pointed Philadelphia’s Avery Sparrow (10-2, 3 KOs, 1 NC) in a 10-round lightweight fight that night.

Keith Idec is a senior writer/columnist for BoxingScene.com. He can be reached on Twitter @Idecboxing.