Caroline Dubois sets course for undisputed championship fight with ‘jealous, threatened’ Alycia Baumgardner | Boxing News
Caroline Dubois is looking to fight her way to an undisputed showdown with American rival Alycia Baumgardner next year.
Baumgardner will challenge Elif Nur Turhan for the IBF lightweight world title, live on Sky Sports in the early hours of Monday November 9.
Dubois, the unified WBC and WBO 135lb champion, expects to fight the winner for the undisputed crown but doesn’t want to wait on the sidelines. She intends to add another belt to her collection and is targeting Stephanie Han, the WBA belt-holder, next.
“I want to become undisputed and I want to be involved in relevant fights. To unify the division is my dream right now. The only other champion [available] is Han and we’ll just have to see if I can get it in before the end of the year. If not we’ll have to go early next year,” Dubois told Sky Sports.
“Hopefully we’ll be unified world champion by the end of this year or early next. One belt away from becoming undisputed.”
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Highlights of the lightweight fight between Caroline Dubois and Amelia Moore
Dubois completed a successful defence of her titles when she beat Amelia Moore in Birmingham last month and immediately afterwards engaged Baumgardner in a furious war of words.
“She’s most definitely intimidated by me. She’s frightened of what I bring to the table. When she looks at me I know that she sees a younger, better, stronger, more talented, more everything better than her. Everything I do is just better than her. I feel like she’s threatened by that,” Dubois said.
“Everything that she has had to work so hard to get I’ve had it and I’ve achieved it in such quick succession. She’s threatened, she’s jealous. She’s feeling a lot of emotions and all I can say is I hope she can focus herself, get that win [over Turhan] and we can find out who’s the best.
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Caroline Dubois is determined to fight rival Alycia Baumgardner sooner rather than later
“I hope she wins the fight. I’m going to be real upset if she doesn’t win because I need to show her something,” Dubois continued.
“Elif Turhan, the champion, versus Alycia Baumgardner, the contender, is going to be an awesome fight. I want the winner. I’ve made it very clear. I feel like I have been very vocal about the fact that I want to become undisputed.
“The path has revealed itself to me. The path has become clear now… So close, but so far.”
Watch Elif Nur Turhan vs Alycia Baumgardner on November 9 live on Sky Sports.
