Teremoana Teremoana also features in the lineup,<\/a> taking on longtime local favourite Bowie Tupou.<\/p>\nWith 10 wins from 10 fights \u2013 including seven first-round knockouts \u2013 Nicolson believes Teremoana has a massive future.<\/p>\n
\u201cI first met [him] when we were teenagers,\u201d she said. \u201cI\u2019ve watched him grow from a boy to a man\u2026a very big man…<\/p>\n
\u201cHe\u2019s such a great character, so good for Australian boxing and also an absolute beast. Like, a monster \u2013 a serious threat to the division.<\/p>\n
\u201cHe\u2019s going to be a heavyweight world champion one day and he\u2019s on my undercard. That\u2019s so cool.\u201d<\/p>\n
STANDING IN HER WAY<\/p>\n
As for the other half of the main event, 12-1 Mariah Turner, Nicolson is expecting a tough test from a determined challenger dropping down in weight.<\/p>\n
\u201cI\u2019m expecting a really good, hard fight,\u201d she said. \u201cShe\u2019s in the top 10 in the featherweight division, and is working very hard to make the move to super bantamweight.<\/p>\n
\u201cThis is her moment. This is her opportunity to show the world who she is. I always know that when people fight me, the best version of them is going to show up.\u201d<\/p>\n
Nicolson reveals she\u2019s done a lot of study on her opponent over the past few months, since their bout was announced, but admits this is probably also true for Turner.<\/p>\n
\u201cI feel like I know her inside out. But I don\u2019t think there\u2019s more footage of any female boxer online than there is of me, so she probably feels the exact same way,\u201d she laughed.<\/p>\n
Known for her movement, timing and elite ring IQ, Nicolson is complimentary about her NZ-born, Queensland-based foe while declaring she\u2019s prepared for any gameplan Turner brings.<\/p>\n
\u201cShe\u2019s got a very composed, smart boxing style. She\u2019s very balanced in her footwork. I honestly don\u2019t know what she\u2019s going to try. I\u2019m sure she\u2019ll have a Plan A, B and C\u2026but none of them will work.\u201d<\/p>\n
RIGHT WHERE SHE BELONGS<\/p>\n
While focused on her first-ever main event, Nicolson has even bigger boxing dreams on the backburner. <\/p>\n
\u201cIt\u2019s been the goal since I turned professional to become an undisputed champion,\u201d she revealed. \u201cI want to be a household name, and I feel like that\u2019s the kind of accolade that\u2019s going to get you there. <\/p>\n
\u201cI don\u2019t want to fight for vacant titles. I want to fight the champions. I want to dethrone the champions. I want to prove I\u2019m the best!<\/p>\n
\u201cI\u2019ve found that side of professional boxing quite difficult to deal with, where people, if they don\u2019t want to fight you, just won\u2019t fight you. <\/p>\n
\u201cMandatory positioning obviously helps, but it still doesn\u2019t guarantee anything. As we saw when I was the mandatory for Amanda Serrano. It didn\u2019t happen.<\/p>\n
Tszyu ready for ‘big fish’ after win | 02:41<\/p>\n
\u201cSo I hope that\u2019s not the case going into the Ellie Scotney undisputed fight [hopefully later this year].<\/p>\n
\u201cBut I\u2019m not focusing on any of that right now, my full focus is on April 29 because beating Mariah Turner comes before anything else.\u201d<\/p>\n
For Nicolson, April 29 isn\u2019t just another fight \u2013 it\u2019s the moment everything comes full circle.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Skye Nicolson has fought on some of the biggest cards in world boxing \u2013 but she\u2019s never been…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":609923,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[571],"tags":[64,63,802,85],"class_list":{"0":"post-609922","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-boxing","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-boxing","11":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/609922","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=609922"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/609922\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/609923"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=609922"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=609922"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=609922"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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