The super-featherweights are on a collision course after both ended 2023 with a victory. Gill defeated Michael Conlan by seventh-round stoppage in December while Barrett won by points against Costin Ion a month earlier.

Now both fighters look to continue their momentum into 2024, and Gill says there could be bigger and better things ahead for the winner.

"It’s just a fight, and one that I’m excited for, off the back of the Conlan fight it’s more interesting and we’ve not had a bad reaction for this fight, everyone is excited for it, and so am I," Gill said in a press conference on Tuesday.

"To be the best you have to beat the best. So, to have a claim to a world title you have to go through these fights.

"Zelfa is a very good fighter, he wants a world title shot and he’s probably at the front of the queue, so I have to beat him to leapfrog him.

"That’s why we’re here and we said yes to the fight, so I am looking forward to it."

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