Alycia Baumgardner becomes two-weight world champion with IBF lightweight title win
The undisputed super-featherweight champion beat the previously unbeaten Elif Nur Turhan 100-90 on all three cards in Arlington, then exchanged words with a ringside Caroline Dubois.
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Alycia Baumgardner, the undisputed super-featherweight champion, moved up to lightweight and won the IBF world title with a unanimous decision over Elif Nur Turhan at College Park Center in Arlington, Texas. All three judges scored the 10 rounds 100-90 for the American, and Turhan lost for the first time in her professional career.
The new IBF champion now looks set for a possible meeting with Caroline Dubois, who fights Stephanie Han for the WBA, WBC and WBO 135lb titles on 20 February, live on Sky Sports. Baumgardner and Dubois have clashed before, and the Briton was ringside in Texas.
Their war of words carried on after the fight. Dubois asked: “Are we going to fight?” Baumgardner said: “You've got a champ right there in front of you.” Ramla Ali, whose family fled Somalia when she was a child and settled in London, won the WBO and IBF super-bantamweight titles with a split decision over Mikiah Kreps. Two judges scored the fight for Ali, 96-93 and 97-92, while the third had Kreps winning 98-91. Ali dedicated the victory to her father, who died earlier this year.
Skye Nicolson retained the WBC super-bantamweight title with a unanimous decision over Japan's Miyo Yoshida. Unbeaten Albina Moldazhanova stopped former European champion Kirstie Bavington with a right hook in the fourth round, giving her six knockouts from six professional fights.
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