{"id":90823,"date":"2025-08-23T21:02:13","date_gmt":"2025-08-23T21:02:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/90823\/"},"modified":"2025-08-23T21:02:13","modified_gmt":"2025-08-23T21:02:13","slug":"fighter-eats-4-punch-combination-after-turning-her-back-to-quit-against-former-world-champion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/90823\/","title":{"rendered":"Fighter eats 4-punch combination after turning her back to quit against former world champion"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Jake Wyllie is headlining his first fight with Matchroom against Youssef Dib after pushing George Kambosos Jr. the distance.<\/p>\n<p>In Australia, Queensland-native Jake Wyllie has landed the opportunity of a lifetime, headlining in his hometown against Youssef Dib.<\/p>\n<p>This comes after Wyllie pushed <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bloodyknockout.com\/tag\/george-kambosos-jr\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">George Kambosos Jr<\/a> the distance on just five days\u2019 notice in Kambosos\u2019 comeback fight.<\/p>\n<p>On the undercard, Skye Nicolson made her super-bantamweight debut, which saw a bizarre moment in the second round.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"755\" loading=\"lazy\"  src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/GettyImages-2178125174-1024x755.jpg\" alt=\"Skye Nicolson holding a belt\" class=\"wp-image-2871\" \/>Photo by Richard Pelham\/Getty ImagesSkye Nicolson\u2019s opponent is dropped after turning her back on the Aussie<\/p>\n<p>Earlier this year, Nicolson lost to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bloodyknockout.com\/features\/skye-nicolsons-world-title-challenger-was-once-a-dc-police-officer\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Tiara Brown, who was a police officer<\/a> once, by split decision after failing an attempt to defend her featherweight world title.<\/p>\n<p>Since then, Nicolson has won once by stoppage and has moved down a division, now fighting as a super-bantamweight.<\/p>\n<p>In her first title fight as a super-bantamweight, fighting for the IBF Inter-continental belt, the Aussie faced 12-3 Urvashi Singh.<\/p>\n<p>Singh looked out of her depth with Nicolson, and in the second round suffered the first stoppage loss of her career.<\/p>\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Skye Nicolson scores a second-round stoppage victory over Urvashi Singh in Brisbane on DAZN, as she continues her journey to become a two-weight world champion \ud83d\udd25 <br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/XTPnOuVmDs\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">pic.twitter.com\/XTPnOuVmDs<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Ring Magazine (@ringmagazine) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ringmagazine\/status\/1959215981089181713?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">August 23, 2025<\/a> <\/p>\n<p>View Tweet<\/p>\n<p>The stoppage came as a result of Singh turning her back in the corner following a body shot. Nicolson refused to let her off the hook, landing a barrage of punches as Singh refused to defend herself. The referee was forced to step in, awarding the Aussie her third stoppage win.<\/p>\n<p>This marks another win for the rising Australian talent, who joins the likes of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bloodyknockout.com\/news\/moses-itauma-could-be-on-a-collision-course-with-fellow-knockout-artist-on-the-other-side-of-the-earth\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Teremoana Teremoana, who may face Moses Itauma one day<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Skye Nicolson will have to work harder to face big-name rival after career defeat<\/p>\n<p>Following her loss to Brown, it seems Nicolson\u2019s plans were derailed momentarily.<\/p>\n<p>After a successful run of 12 wins in a row, Nicolson began to call out a big name in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bloodyknockout.com\/tag\/amanda-serrano\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Amanda Serrano<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"698\" loading=\"lazy\"  src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/GettyImages-1395401670-1024x698.jpg\" alt=\"Close-up of Amanda Serrano during her first fight with Katie Taylor\" class=\"wp-image-23162\" \/>Photo by Sarah Stier\/Getty Images<\/p>\n<p>Serrano is a featherweight champion, who has fought and lost to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bloodyknockout.com\/tag\/katie-taylor\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Katie Taylor<\/a> at light and super-lightweight.<\/p>\n<p>She is now 47-4-1, whilst Nicolson sits at 14-1.<\/p>\n<p>Whilst Nicolson could use her long range to keep Serrano at bay, her move to the division lower than Serrano\u2019s could indicate that she is not yet ready for the legendary fighter.<\/p>\n<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Jake Wyllie is headlining his first fight with Matchroom against Youssef Dib after pushing George Kambosos Jr. the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":90824,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[571],"tags":[64,63,802,21342,85],"class_list":{"0":"post-90823","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-skye-nicolson","12":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90823","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=90823"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90823\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/90824"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=90823"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=90823"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=90823"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}