Vito Mielnicki Jr. has agreed to box another undefeated European opponent less than a month after his majority draw with Connor Coyle.

The Ring has learned Mielnicki will oppose Poland’s Kamil Gardzielik in a 10-round middleweight match June 21 at Prudential Center in Newark, New Jersey. The bout between Mielnicki (20-1-1, 12 KOs), of nearby Roseland, New Jersey, and Warsaw’s Gardzielik (19-0, 4 KOs) will headline a Top Rank card ESPN+ will stream from the home arena of the NHL’s New Jersey Devils.

Mielnicki, 22, will fight at Prudential Center, where he is a proven ticket-seller, for the fifth time since he made his pro debut there in July 2019. Gardzielik, 32, has beaten mostly a low level of opposition while maintaining an unblemished record in eight years as a pro.

New Jersey has a large Polish population, though, which was a factor in securing Gardzielik as Mielnicki’s next opponent.

Poland’s Damian Knyba (15-0, 9 KOs), a heavyweight prospect promoted by Bob Arum’s Top Rank, is expected to compete in the co-feature June 21 against Norman Neely (15-1, 10 KOs), of Paterson, New Jersey, the city where Knyba trains. The undercard will also include Lorenzo “Truck” Simpson (15-2, 9 KOs), a middleweight from Baltimore, and the pro debut of decorated amateur Emmanuel Chance, a junior featherweight from East Orange, New Jersey.

Mielnicki thinks he did more than enough to defeat Northern Ireland’s Coyle in a 10-round bout ESPN televised February 14 as part of the Keyshawn Davis-Denys Berinchyk undercard from The Theater at Madison Square Garden in New York. Mielnicki rocked Coyle (21-0-1, 9 KOs) with a right hand in the second round and landed 50 more punches overall according to CompuBox’s unofficial statistics, yet Coyle’s resilience and ability to land right hands enabled him to make their fight very competitive.

Judge Tom Carusone scored Mielnicki a 96-94 winner. Judges Ken Ezzo and Kevin Morgan both scored it a draw, 95-95 apiece.

Mielnicki made his middleweight debut against the 34-year-old Coyle, who entered their bout ranked third among the WBA’s 160-pound contenders. Their draw halted Mielnicki’s 12-fight winning streak, which began after his eight-round, majority-decision defeat to underdog James Martin (then 6-2) in Mielnicki’s ninth pro fight in April 2021 at Shrine Auditorium & Expo Hall in Los Angeles.