Dec 19, 2025, 02:28 AM ET<\/p>\n
Alycia Baumgardner has warned Caroline Dubois not to bite off more than she can chew after the Brit called her out this week.<\/p>\n
Unified junior lightweight champion Baumgardner (16-1, 7 KOs) and WBC lightweight champion Dubois (11-0-1, 5 KOs) will both fight on the undercard of Jake Paul’s clash with Anthony Joshua on Friday [8 p.m. ET, 1 a.m. Saturday GMT, Netflix].<\/p>\n
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The two unexpectedly exchanged words at Wednesday’s news conference and while Baumgardner, 31, praised Dubois, the American also sent a warning urging the 24-year-old to “be patient.”<\/p>\n
“One thing about Caroline, she’s a hungry fighter. For a UK fighter to come to a platform like MVP to fight on Netflix, that gets somebody hungry as a champion, she should be hungry,” Baumgardner told ESPN.<\/p>\n
“But I also know as a woman with experience in this game, take your time. Be patient. That’s why I called her a puppy.<\/p>\n
Alycia Baumgardner will fight Leila Beaudoin on Friday.\u00a0Megan Briggs\/Getty Images for Netflix<\/p>\n
“She’s hungry and sometimes you can bite off too much. And I want her to understand from a woman with experience in this game, take your time.<\/p>\n
“I understand you’re hungry. I’m hungry too. But baby, don’t bite off [more] than you can chew because I’m a big dog.”<\/p>\n
Baumgardner, who will fight Leila Beaudoin under men’s rules of 12 three-minute rounds, has been labelled the next face of women’s boxing by Paul.<\/p>\n
While she didn’t rule out a fight against Dubois, Baumgardner said she wants to see more from the Brit.<\/p>\n
Dubois has eyes on Baumgardner and Terri Harper.\u00a0Megan Briggs\/Getty Images for Netflix<\/p>\n
“I’m way too much. I have to see her fight somebody,” Baumgardner said. “She’s calling me out. I’m still undisputed at 130 [pounds]. You are at 135. Go fight one of those other champions like I did … go do something.<\/p>\n
“Get me excited to be like, you know what? Yeah girl, you can get this fight, but I’m business first.”<\/p>\n
After signing for MVP last week and immediately fighting on the Paul-Joshua undercard, Dubois took aim at Baumgardner earlier this week, saying: “I feel like she walks around like she’s the biggest, baddest fish in the pond and that’s not true.<\/p>\n
“I believe I am. So when she says that and has that energy, it triggers me a little bit because I’m like: ‘That’s not right.’<\/p>\n
“It’s important we’re on the same card so people can see and use us as a yardstick among each other and make up their own minds who is the baddest.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Dec 19, 2025, 02:28 AM ET Alycia Baumgardner has warned Caroline Dubois not to bite off more than…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":355040,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[447],"tags":[703,49,48,82],"class_list":{"0":"post-355039","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-boxing","8":"tag-boxing","9":"tag-ca","10":"tag-canada","11":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/355039","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=355039"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/355039\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/355040"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=355039"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=355039"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=355039"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}