Defending her IBO super bantamweight world title, Mea Motu had a big victory over India’s Chandni Mehra at the W\u0101hine Toa double-header in Whang\u0101rei in December 2023.<\/p>\n
And she\u2019s keen to show the rest of the globe that she\u2019s fully back and ready to take the titles from whoever holds them.<\/p>\n
Currently, there are two world champions in Mea\u2019s super featherweight division, including IBF, WBO and WBA unified world champion Alycia Baumgardner, another American, and WBC world champion Caroline Veyre of Canada. Baumgardner is under MVP promoter Jake Paul, who promoted Daniels\u2019 most recent win. Baumgardner has been world champion since 2021 and became undisputed champion in 2023, however she was stripped of her WBC title as she wanted to fight over three-minute rounds, instead of the traditional two-minute rounds for women.<\/p>\n
Veyre won the WBC world title in February this year after Baumgardner was stripped. Veyre defeated the legendary Belgian boxer Delfine Persoon by unanimous decision. With both world champions having their eyes elsewhere, it is important for Motu to take her next steps by becoming the mandatory challenger for these world titles. This could be done either by a world title eliminator fight or a request to the sanctioning bodies to enforce a mandatory defence, as Motu\u2019s team did against Scotney<\/a>.<\/p>\n There are a couple of options to make an eliminator fight happen, including IBF and WBO No 1 Puerto Rican Elise Soto, WBA No 3 American Gabriela Tellez or WBC No 2 Canadian Leila Beaudoin. However, Beaudoin is fighting for an interim WBA world title against Colombian Paulina Angel in June.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Mea will be hoping to follow in Daniels\u2019 wake and earn her third world title. Motu and her…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":684435,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[571],"tags":[9490,4218,64,63,21677,49305,16485,802,8813,140357,13057,580,21694,4717,27930,28544,329947,329948,47,329946,33372,32604,329949,2174,85,8821,35276,1720],"class_list":["post-684434","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-boxing","tag-after","tag-another","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-being","tag-bodies","tag-boxer","tag-boxing","tag-champion","tag-far","tag-first","tag-for","tag-former","tag-in","tag-including","tag-line","tag-mea","tag-motu","tag-north","tag-norths","tag-professional","tag-ranked","tag-sanctioning","tag-shot","tag-sports","tag-title","tag-wbc","tag-world"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/684434","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=684434"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/684434\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/684435"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=684434"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=684434"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=684434"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}