Interim WBC featherweight champion Skye Nicolson will get the chance to upgrade to a full world title when she faces Sarah Mahfoud for the vacant belt in Las Vegas on April 6.
The WBC ordered Nicolson to face Mahfoud after Amanda Serrano relinquished the featherweight title due to the organisation’s unwillingness to sanction 12 x 3-minute round fights for women.
Nicolson, 28, will face off with Denmark’s Mahfoud at Fontainebleau Las Vegas on Saturday, April 6 (Apr. 7 in Australia).
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The card will also feature an IBF super lightweight title eliminator between unbeaten pair Richardson Hitchins and Gustavo Lemos.
While super middleweight contenders Diego Pacheco and Shawn McCalman, also yet to taste defeat across a combined 35 fights, while face off for a couple of regional titles.
Nicolson had hoped her maiden world title bout would be in her native Australia and, while that won’t be the case for the southpaw, a Les Vegas debut will no doubt be equally satisfying.
The Queenslander is unbeaten in nine professional fights, having claimed the interim title when defeating Sabrina Perez last September before defending the belt with a career-first stoppage victory over Lucy Wildheart.
