• Promoters want biggest possible venue for 31 May bout • This is a fight that needs to be in London, says Groves

George Groves is convinced the resumption of his unfinished business with Carl Froch should take place on the biggest available stage – and that means Wembley, in front of 80,000 fans, on 31 May.

Froch's Matchroom promoter, Eddie Hearn, will confirm the venue on Sky Sports News on Tuesday morning. And, if he is standing outside the home of football, it will come as no surprise.

The champion said, albeit cheekily, that he wanted it in his home town, Nottingham, at the City Ground, and the Londoner Groves, a Chelsea fan, might have liked to do business at Stamford Bridge – but neither of those was a practical money-making option.

The only other serious candidates were Arsenal's Emirates Stadium and the Millennium Stadium in Cardiff, but Wembley will land the job of hosting the biggest fight in Britain since the war.

They offered to postpone England's friendly the night before, but the England manager, Roy Hodgson, vetoed that. Instead they will work through the night after the game, then on Saturday almost up to the time of the first undercard fight to prepare the ground, laying protective covering over the pitch, opening up catering facilities and providing security.

"Carl said he wants the fight at Nottingham Forest's ground," Groves said, "which is a joke. I would happily fight there but this is a fight that needs to be in the capital. Carl knows that. A fight this big has to be in London, or maybe under the roof in Cardiff."

Froch will defend his IBF and WBA super-middleweight belts for the second time against Groves, who remains convinced he would have won their first encounter in November but for the hasty intervention of the referee, Howard Foster, in the ninth round.

The undercard for the rematch will feature most of Matchroom's big names, including the Olympic gold medallist Anthony Joshua, who sent Hector Alfredo Avila home to Argentina with a decent headache after he fell with tree-like certainty in the first round of their scheduled six-rounder at the Scottish Exhibition Centre in Glasgow on Saturday night.

Hearn said later he has no choice but to lead the novice heavyweight into more demanding territory – and that could mean a challenge for the British title before the end of the year.

This was the Londoner's fifth stoppage win from as many bouts, and, although he is hyper-critical of his performances, he did nothing wrong in getting rid of Avila with some thunderous punching. It took a disinterested Dereck Chisora nine rounds to do the same job.

Terence Crawford, a distant relative of Joe Louis and almost as monosyllabic as the heavyweight legend, showed in his clinical dismantling of Ricky Burns in the main event that he has class to match his lineage, and he could be a star to outshine his lightweight contemporaries for years to come.

The dethroned WBO champion's post-fight plea for a rematch was understandable, but his insistence that the fight was closer than the judges scores stretched credulity. The officials saw it 116-112 twice and 117-111. I gave the champion a share of two rounds and the rest to the slick American.

After four years and 10 world title fights at super-feather and lightweight, Burns would seem to have pushed his career to its limits. That did not stop him making the ritual request for another shot at the belt he gave up over 12 uncomfortable rounds, of course. But the unpalatable truth is that, at 30, his biggest nights are memories. He was trailing when Jose Gonzales quit with three rounds left last May and he got the benefit of any doubt in a draw against Raymundo Beltran six months ago. On Saturday he could hardly lay a glove on his opponent. Crawford, an unbeaten stylist from Omaha, Nebraska, spoke only the truth when asked after a decisive points win where he ranked himself among lightweights. "I always said I was up there."

Burns has been a world champion in two divisions, super-feather and lightweight, over four years in which he has thrilled his Scottish fans. Hearn hinted strongly that he would have to rebuild his career with a domestic fight, possibly as a world title eliminator. Billed as the Man of Steel, Burns sold out the venue to its 10,000 limit and they were heartily with him until the Nebraskan began to repeatedly beat Burns to the punch, from all angles, on the front foot and the counter.

In Bristol, James DeGale kept his world title ambitions solvent with an 11th-round stoppage of the previously unbeaten Dutchman Gevorg Khatchikian. However, his mandated fight as a final eliminator for Sakio Bika's WBC super-middleweight title, against Badou Jack, was scuppered when the unheralded Derek Edwards dropped Jack twice and stopped him in the first round in Verona, New York, on Friday.

Farce prevailed in San Antonio, Texas, when Orlando Salido came in two pounds over the featherweight limit, rendering him ineligible to contest the WBO title, then won a split decision over Vasyl Lomachenko, in only the Ukrainian's second professional fight.

In Germany, Arthur Abraham – who lost by a wide margin to Froch in 2010 – defeated Robert Stieglitz for the second time in three outings to win the WBO super-middleweight title.