Skye Nicolson calls out Amanda Serrano, vows she’d make champ ‘look silly’

Skye Nicolson desires Amanda Serrano subsequent.

On Saturday night time, Nicolson retained her WBC interim featherweight title with a ninth-round TKO over Lucy Wildheart on the undercard of the Katie Taylor vs. Chantelle Cameron 2 occasion. The win was Nicolson’s ninth since turning professional lower than two years in the past and her first stoppage. The win additionally ought to set her as much as face Serrano subsequent, and that’s precisely what Nicolson is hoping for.

“We’ll see,” Nicolson stated Monday on The MMA Hour. “Clearly I need the Serrano struggle. She’s the champion in my division. I need to be world champion. I need to show to the world that I’m the most effective and I need to try this by beating the most effective. Each time I name out Serrano, it’s by no means as a result of I disrespect her or don’t assume she’s good or no matter. I need to struggle the most effective. That’s why I’m calling her out. I need to present my ranges. I need to show that I’m worthy. That’s why I name her out.

“I do know that 90 p.c of individuals write me off in that struggle, and I don’t care. I imagine I win that struggle, my group believes I win that struggle, my model is all fallacious for her. I maintain saying this. But it surely’s OK. I don’t need to speak about it, I need to show it. I need the struggle. The ball’s going to be in her court docket. I’m going to be her necessary and it’s going to be utterly as much as her whether or not she takes the struggle or whether or not she leaves the belt. For me, I need that struggle. I don’t need to struggle for a vacant title in opposition to any person else. I need to beat the most effective.”

Sadly for Nicolson, at this level it appears unlikely she’ll get her want. With a 46-2-1 report in her skilled profession and standing as the present undisputed featherweight champion of the world, Serrano is likely one of the greatest stars in girls’s boxing, and rumors are at present circulating a couple of high-profile rematch with Katie Taylor someday subsequent 12 months. On high of that, Serrano can be signed to the PFL and has urged she is going to make her promotional debut someday in 2024. That doesn’t depart a lot time for Nicolson — and Serrano principally stated as a lot, taking pictures down talks of the struggle on Twitter.

However Nicolson hasn’t totally given up hope but.

“I haven’t misplaced all hope,” Nicolson stated. “I really feel like when the necessary order is made and he or she’s really requested, will you struggle her or will you vacate, and he or she really has to make that alternative, possibly she would possibly flip round and say, ‘Oh effectively, she’s requested for it, she’s going to get it.’ We’ll see. However I don’t know at this level.”

Nicolson additionally acknowledges that she’s left to the whims of Serrano in all of this, saying she would settle for the struggle underneath practically any circumstances provided, simply as long as the struggle occurs.

“Ideally, I would really like most likely April,” Nicolson stated. “I’ve had clearly a really busy 9 fights in 18 months, so a little bit little bit of down time from time to time clearly if I’m preventing the queen of boxing, I would really like a full preparation from the New 12 months. So I believe April could be a very good time, however beggars can’t be choosers at this level. I need the struggle. Wherever, any time. I simply need the chance to indicate the world.”

And if she one way or the other will get the possibility to do show herself, Nicolson is supremely assured that she is going to hand Serrano her first loss at 126 kilos.

“I imagine that my model upsets her as a result of I’m not going to face in entrance of her,” Nicolson stated. “She’s flat-footed. She’s robust. Very aggressive, very robust, however she’s flat-footed. She’s bought sluggish toes and he or she appears to be like good in opposition to somebody who stands and trades together with her, and that’s not what I might do. I might use angles, I might field and transfer, I’ll set traps, I’ll stroll her onto pictures, I’ll have her strolling onto the ropes, and making her look foolish. That’s what I do to my opponents and that’s why so many individuals maintain saying, ‘Skye hasn’t fought anybody good.’

“No, really, I’m higher. You simply don’t see it, as a result of I make individuals look unhealthy.”