Caroline Dubois is assured she is one battle away from an undisputed showdown along with her American rival Alycia Baumgardner.
Baumgardner, previously an undisputed super-featherweight champion, moved as much as light-weight to dominate Elif Nur Turhan and win the IBF light-weight world title.
In El Paso on February 20, stay on Sky Sports activities, Dubois fights Stephanie Han, trying so as to add the WBA championship to the WBO and WBC light-weight titles she already holds.
She was in Texas on Sunday, to face off with Han and name out Baumgardner.
As a lot as there may be enmity between Dubois and Baumgardner, who’ve now had various fierce confrontations, the Londoner was happy to see her rival step as much as the 135lb division.
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Highlights of the battle between Turhan and Baumgardner
“After all, I knew it was going to occur. I mentioned it. I mentioned that there was nothing left for her at 130,” Dubois instructed Sky Sports activities. “She’s been a place now the place she’s run out of opponents.
“You need to problem your self, you need to check your self and that check, the largest check for her profession goes to be in opposition to me. I knew she was going to must step up.”
To remain on monitor herself, Dubois should defeat Han in February. Han is unbeaten as knowledgeable and has two high-profile wins on her ledger over Holly Holm as properly. However Dubois is set to beat her in her hometown and transfer on.
She insists she won’t again down from Baumgardner. She doesn’t need the American to equivocate both.
“What is the level of shifting up in weight and having one belt? There is not any level going midway, you go all the way in which. Once you’re on a quest for greatness, you go all the way in which,” Dubois mentioned.
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Highlights of the light-weight battle between Dubois and Amelia Moore
“I do know for myself, I wish to be undisputed. I will be very annoyed if I battle and unify as a lot as I can and there is only one belt and she or he’s terrified to step within the ring me and prevents me from turning into undisputed. I feel that may be a whack transfer and I’d be very disillusioned.”
However Dubois added: “If she’s as nice as she says she is then hopefully that is the character she could have and she or he would relish the chance.
“It is one thing that we each must work in direction of, to ensure when the battle occurs it is on the largest platform, the largest stage and we’re given the respect we deserve for placing ourselves on the road.”
Watch Dubois vs Han on February 20 stay on Sky Sports activities.