Skye Nicolson Heads To Las Vegas For Maiden World Title Opportunity

Skye Nicolson Heads To Las Vegas For Maiden World Title Opportunity

The only question was where and when Skye Nicolson would get her maiden world title opportunity.

The former Olympian will head to Las Vegas in April to fight the once-beaten Danish fighter Sarah Mahfoud for the vacant WBC world featherweight title.

Nicolson is no stranger to a little bit of globetrotting in her professional career, having had fights in San Diego, New York, Mexico, Australia and several cities in the UK, and Las Vegas will be the latest entry on her world tour. A city break that has a little more meaning.

When Amanda Serrano vacated her WBC bauble in protest at the organisations stance on three-minute rounds, Nicolson was denied an immediate showdown with Serrano, but the end goal remains the same. A change of opponent being the only difference.

The 34-year-old Mahfoud will be next in line to try and solve the Skye Nicolson puzzle. Mahfoud turned professional in 2017, and only Serrano has beaten her in fifteen fights in a unification fight in Manchester two years ago. Since that defeat to Serrano in 2022, Mahfoud has won three straight fights, and the former IBF champion will hope she can inflict the first defeat on the resume of the immensely talented Australian to crown herself a two-time world champion.

But despite her greater professional experience, Mahfoud will know Nicolson will present her with many problems to solve. That unique southpaw style has proved a bridge to far for her previous nine professional opponents, and at 28, Nicolson will only get better. Last time out, Lucy Wildheart was thoroughly outboxed and then stopped in Dublin to give Nicolson her first inside the distance victory last November. A Wildheart who took rounds off Mikaela Mayer six months previously.

Nicolson will head to Vegas with confidence that a first world title will be hers on April 6th despite Mahfoud being by far her toughest test to date.