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Briton Chantelle Cameron has vowed to "shut up" Jessica McCaskill arsenic she seeks to go the undisputed light-welterweight champion successful Abu Dhabi connected Saturday.
Cameron, 31, holds the WBC and IBF belts and has the accidental to adhd the vacant WBO, WBA and IBO titles to her collection.
'El Capo' is unbeaten successful 16 fights earlier the bout astatine Etihad Arena.
"When I onshore connected your chin, your look is going to drop," said Cameron.
"Talk is cheap. Bring connected Saturday and shutting her up."
Undisputed welterweight champion McCaskill is dropping down a part to instrumentality connected Cameron connected what is acceptable to beryllium different historical nighttime successful women's boxing.
The American, 38, has won her past 7 fights aft suffering a unanimous determination nonaccomplishment to Ireland's Katie Taylor successful 2017 and boasts a grounds of 12 victories and 2 losses.
Earlier connected Saturday's card, Zelfa Barrett and Shavkatdzhon Rakhimov volition conscionable for the vacant IBF super-featherweight title.
The 28-year-old Rakhimov, the mandatory challenger, was primitively owed to beryllium facing Joe Cordina but the Welshman had to withdraw and was subsequently stripped of his IBF loop aft undergoing country connected his hand.
Commonwealth and European super-featherweight champion Barrett, 29, agreed to measurement in, having received the telephone for his archetypal rubric combat connected 5 weeks' notice, and the Briton is assured helium tin unafraid the biggest triumph of his career.
Barrett, who has a grounds of 28 wins and 1 loss, said: "I bash judge I'll beryllium satellite champion.
"This is the infinitesimal I've been waiting for each my life. I'm chill and I'm ready."
In the main event, Dmitry Bivol puts his WBA airy heavyweight rubric connected the enactment against Gilberto Ramirez.
Russian Bivol, 31, is undefeated successful 20 fights, winning 11 by knockout, and helium successfully defended his rubric against Saul 'Canelo' Alvarez successful May.
Ramirez is besides yet to suffer with 30 of his 44 victories coming via knockout and the Mexican, 31, is bidding to go a two-weight satellite champion.
Friday's weigh-ins, which took spot poolside astatine Cafe del Mar connected Yas Island, passed by smoothly with each fighters making weight.
Cameron and McCaskill came nether conscionable nether the 140lb light-welterweight limit, portion Barrett and Rakhimov some tipped the scales astatine 129.9lbs.
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