{"id":351877,"date":"2023-12-05T20:46:12","date_gmt":"2023-12-05T21:46:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/?p=351877"},"modified":"2023-12-06T00:03:08","modified_gmt":"2023-12-06T00:03:08","slug":"aussie-in-line-to-be-world-champion-after-shock-call","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/?p=351877","title":{"rendered":"Aussie in line to be world champion after shock call"},"content":{"rendered":"

Australian boxer Skye Nicolson is in line to be promoted to full WBC featherweight champion after undisputed, seven-division champion Amanda Serrano vacated her title.<\/p>\n

Serrano relinquished her belt due to the WBC's refusal to allow women boxers to fight three-minute rounds and 12-round title fights.<\/p>\n

"I am the first undisputed female champion to fight 12×3 minute rounds," Serrano said in a post.<\/p>\n

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"Moving forward if a sanctioning body doesn't want to give me and my fellow fighters the choice to fight the same as the men, then I will not be fighting for that sanctioning body.<\/p>\n

"The WBC has refused to evolve the sport for equality. So I am relinquishing their title.<\/p>\n

"'Thankyou to the sanctioning bodies who have evolved for equality!"<\/p>\n

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Nicolson, the WBC interim featherweight champ, has been pushing for a bout with Serrano following her dominant win over Lucy Wildheart in Dublin last month.<\/p>\n

The Aussie may have to fight for the vacant championship belt or the WBC could elevate her to full champion status.<\/p>\n

Nicolson scored the first stoppage win of her professional career with a ninth round TKO of Wildheart.<\/p>\n

It was the first defence of her WBC interim title, and the former Commonwealth Games gold medalist couldn't help but call out Serrano after the fight.<\/p>\n

https:\/\/twitter.com\/EverythingBoxi2\/status\/1731910252864356607?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw<\/a>https:\/\/twitter.com\/WBCboxingnews\/status\/1732020814768205993?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw<\/a>https:\/\/twitter.com\/CombatHaven\/status\/1732008784506019983?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw<\/a><\/p>\n

"No disrespect, she's one of my idols and one of the trailblazers for women's boxing," Nicolson said. "To share the ring with her would be an honour, but also I want to prove that I'm the best in the world.<\/p>\n

"That's the fight I want, that's the fight anyone training in the featherweight division wants.<\/p>\n

"I feel like I'm next in line and I'm hoping to make it happen in my next fight.<\/p>\n

"I want to go undisputed in 10 fights, I want to be world champion in my 10th fight."<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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