Caroline Dubois admits her future is unclear as she waits for Katie Taylor to make her next move.
Dubois, 10-0 (5 KOs), is Taylor’s top challenger for the WBC lightweight title, and Dubois might still box again this year, in Liverpool on December 14, and currently holds the WBC’s Interim title.
Asked by Sky Sports what her next move is, Dubois said: “It’s unfortunate but the ball’s not in my court, it’s in her [Taylor’s] court and the WBC and Mauricio Sulaiman’s court. She hasn’t defended the 135lbs belt in over a year, she’s fought Amanda Serrano [on November 15 in Texas] and she had a great fight, so now she’s kept all the belts at 140 and I don’t think she’s going to come back down, so she’s just wasting time and waiting for the inevitable. I feel she should have been stripped a while ago, but now she has to come back down and fight me or vacate the belt. Either way, I’m ready.”
Dubois will attend the WBC convention in Hamburg to press her case, and is certain she has what it takes to fill the void left when Irish heroine Taylor, whose last three fights have come at junior welterweight, eventually decides to call it a day.
“I’m going to be the next face of female boxing. I believe that. We haven’t got many female stars,” said Dubois. “We had Savannah Marshall but she has kind of faded away and we don’t have many female stars really making a break for it. I see myself being an undisputed, multi-weight world champion.”
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