Reports of a possible return to the Maidana ring have appeared regularly over the past three years. El Chino's comeback fight will be in the middleweight division.
The Argentine has been inactive since 2014, when he had two fights with Floyd Mayweather Jr. For two fights against an American, he earned a total of more than 10 million dollars.
The main event of the March boxing evening in Dubai will be the fight between Mike Perez (26-3-1, 17 KOs) and Vasile Ducard (10-4-1, 9 KOs) for the WBA intercontinental heavyweight belt.