Ringside Report: Caroline Dubois Retains Her WBC World Lightweight Title On A Technical Draw With Jessica Camara
Caroline Dubois leaves Sheffield on Saturday night, still the WBC lightweight champion of the world, but it will come with much frustration due to how the fight concluded. An accidental head clash left her challenger covered in blood due to a cut eye, and when Jessica Camara said she couldn’t see, the referee had no choice but to wave the fight off before the start of the third round. But had Camara just had enough and knew what was coming? Certainly the Dubois camp thought so. Camara had damage to both eyes, but they ultimately saved her from certain defeat. Nobody should be under any illusions who the better fighter was.
Dubois dropped Camara in the opening round and pummelled the American for much of the four minutes of action that we saw at the Canon Medical Arena. It was one-way traffic, terribly one-sided, and Dubois was well on her way to a stoppage victory until the headbutt that prematurely ended the fight.
Camara was outclassed, and Dubois was a class above, and she was denied a clear victory in the first defence of her WBC bauble. But Dubois also demonstrated why so many proclaim her to be the future of her sport.
Dubois wants to make an extremely quick turnaround and force her way onto the Boxxer all-female card on March 7th at the Royal Albert Hall. Offers have been made to the WBO title-holder Terri Harper, but with Harper also being mentioned for a fight with Beatriz Ferreira, her services will not come cheap. But a Harper Dubois showdown seems a natural for that illustrious card in two months’ time. But whoever is next, Dubois will take some stopping. She is undoubtedly a special talent and could easily be everything many claim her to be.
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