Caroline Dubois says a fight against Alycia Baumgardner will be “unavoidable, unmissable, and undeniable”.
Dubois, who dropped Terri Harper en route to beating her rival world champion by unanimous decision in April returns as the UK’s unified WBC and WBO lightweight world champion in a 10-round unified championship defence against American Amelia Moore.
The bout contested at 135lbs with two-minute rounds features on the undercard of MVPW-06 at the bp pulse LIVE arena in Birmingham on August 29, where every fight on the main card will see a UK vs USA contest.
Baumgardner in the pipeline?
Alycia Baumgardner could be in line to fight Dubois
Alycia Baumgardner has previously insisted Dubois still needs to prove herself before the American will agree to fight the unified lightweight world champion.
Dubois has taken aim at Baumgardner and called her out for a high-profile clash, saying the clash “has to happen sooner rather than later”.
“She’s lost right now,” said Dubois. “She’s got no opponents. She wanted the Katie Taylor fight but that’s not happening, she wanted the Amanda Serrano fight but that’s not happening, so who’s she going to fight? Absolutely nobody.
“There’s no one she can step into the ring with that’s on my level. I say that with respect but I know I’m her biggest challenger.
“We’re going to build the fight. I want to become undisputed and then she’s got no arguments. All we can do is to build and make that fight unavoidable, unmissable, and undeniable. That happens by me becoming undisputed.”
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Baumgardner believes Dubois is avoiding a fight with her
A 10-round junior middleweight championship unification fight between Mikaela Mayer and Chantelle Cameron will headline a main card in Birmingham and Dubois said: “It’s a close fight – I’m split. Mikaela Mayer has got a bit more dimensions but then I wake up and think Chantelle Cameron is a beast. She’s going to bring the pressure and she has the home advantage.
“It’s a 50-50 fight. I know it’s going to be a great fight.”
‘Taylor is the GOAT’
Dubois said she would have loved to have fought Irish icon Katie Taylor
Trainer Shane McGuigan hinted at MVP’s interest in a blockbuster showdown with Irish boxing icon Katie Taylor, who is set to end her stellar career with a fight against unbeaten French fighter Flora Pili at Croke Park in Dublin on Saturday September 5.
“Katie Taylor is the GOAT,” Dubois said. “She’s a champion and she deserves to fight whoever she wants to fight. She sold out 80,000 which is phenomenal. It doesn’t matter who is in the corner. This is about Katie Taylor. It’s not about the fight!
“She’s getting the moment to sail off into the sunset exactly the way she wants to. I’ll be supporting her. No one can discredit who she’s fought and who she has been in the ring with and her tenacity throughout the years.
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Natasha Jonas, who hasn’t fought since last March, admits only a ‘big occasion’ could tempt her back to the boxing ring
“I would 100 per cent be backing myself [if I had the chance to fight her] and it would have been an awesome fight to have. I would have loved to have fought her straight out of the 2012 Olympics.
“It’s not going to happen and I’m not focussing on that. If there were no other women to fight then I would be upset, but I’ve got big names.”
Watch MVPW-06 in Birmingham, headlined by Mikaela Mayer v Chantelle Cameron and with Caroline Dubois also in action, live on August 29 on Sky Sports. Get Sky Sports or stream boxing with no contract.
