FLINT, MI - Plenty of rumors are circling within the boxing community involving a potential showdown between former champions Anthony "The Dog" Dirrell and Julio Cesar Chavez Jr.

Chavez announced the match via Twitter then BoxRec.com listed it for Nov. 11 at Las Vegas' T-Mobile Arena, but Dirrell confirmed Tuesday night that the news is false.

"Don't believe that," Dirrell said.

The Flint boxer said he won't be facing the son of Mexican icon Julio Cesar Chavez Sr., but will be taking on Dennis Douglas on Friday, Nov. 17, at the Dort Federal Event Center in a 10-round super middleweight fight.

Details of the tickets and television network will soon be announced.

"It's exciting and I'm just ready to get back into the groove," said Dirrell, who turns 33 on Oct. 14. "I've probably got about a year more of this boxing and I'm just going to hang it up, honestly."

Dirrell hasn't fought in front of his home crowd since July 2, 2011, when he knocked out Dante Craig in the fifth round at Atwood Stadium to claim the vacant UBO super middleweight title.

He will begin training camp next week in Detroit but is already thinking about life after the sport. Dirrell hopes to get one more shot at regaining his world title within a year, then will move on to the next phase of life.

"I've been doing this almost 24 years, and it's about that time," Dirrell said. "I've already set a goal to retire at 34 or 35, and I just feel like it's the right time.

"It's sad, but all good things will come to an end at some time. I want to be champion one more time, and I think I will do that."

His younger cousin and National Golden Gloves champion, Leon Lawson III, will make his professional debut on the undercard.

He says the family is looking to put the post-fight melee behind them following his brother Andre's disqualification victory against Jose Uzcategui on May 20, where his uncle and Lawson's father, Leon Jr., jumped into the ring to hit Uzcategui with a vicious left hook following an illegal punch.

Leon Jr. is banned from WBA- and WBC-sanctioned events.

However, all that controversy is in the past, according to Anthony. He has won three straight bouts since losing his WBC super middleweight title to Badou Jack in 2015 at Chicago's UIC Pavilion and is looking to make in four in a row at home this winter.

"Let that be in the past," Dirrell said. "It's all done and over with and whatever happened, happened.

"So, let's just put that in the past and move forward and I've got a year more of this so I want to make this whole year a good and stress-free one. I'm going to fight as much as possible."