The Ring has learned that a deal is close for Ring/WBO junior welterweight champion Teofimo Lopez to return to action on a date in June or July - as the headliner of a special Ring Magazine event.

No opponent has been finalized at the moment.

The Ring has two events already scheduled in the coming months - but the Lopez card would have a very unique setting - Alcatraz Prison.

Lopez's return would be the first of a three fight collaboration with Top Rank, with the first bout under the Ring Magazine banner, and his next two in-ring appearances being part of Riyadh Season events.

Turki Alalshikh, head of Riyadh Season and chairman of the General Entertainment Authority, recently told ESPN.com’s Mike Coppinger during a wide-ranging interview that he hopes to stage a boxing event sometime this year at the long-closed federal penitentiary.

“What do you think if there is [an] event, fight in Alcatraz jail one day?,” Alalshikh asked Coppinger.

“It is like a museum now. You know, sometimes I get in my mind I want different places to do [fights]. Sometimes in mountains, maybe someday in the Pyramids in Mexico, someday in [the] Eiffel Tower in France, [The] Coliseum in Italy. You understand this concept?”

Alcatraz was a maximum security federal prison on Alcatraz Island, off the coast of San Francisco, California. The main prison building was built in 1910–12.

The prison closed in 1963, but Alcatraz was reopened as a public museum. It is one of San Francisco's major tourist attractions, attracting some 1.5 million visitors annually.

Lopez (21-1, 13 KOs) last fought in June of last year, when he picked up a twelve round unanimous decision over Steve Claggett.