'Three-weight champion & retire by 30' - Dubois dreams big

Caroline Dubois is successful boxing for a bully time, not needfully a agelong time.

"I privation to beryllium undisputed successful 3 value divisions and past retire, telephone it a time - each earlier 30. That would beryllium sick," Britain's satellite lightweight champion says.

Dubois volition people her 24th day by making a archetypal defence of her WBC rubric against Canada's Jessica Camara successful Sheffield connected Saturday.

She was upgraded to satellite champion successful December aft Katie Taylor opted to vacate the belt.

Dubois joined estranged sibling, heavyweight champion Daniel, successful becoming the United Kingdom's archetypal member and sister to simultaneously clasp satellite titles, and lone the 2nd successful boxing worldwide.

Despite the lack of an in-ring crowning infinitesimal and those infamous "and the new" words from a ringing announcer, Dubois is relishing her satellite champion tag - and promises to sound retired Camara astatine the Canon Medical Arena.

"I privation to marque a connection and fto the satellite cognize that Caroline Dubois is simply a satellite champion and she volition reign for a precise agelong time," she adds.

"There's going to beryllium bigger nights, bigger fights. Definitely harder nights and hard fights, and undisputed is the extremity for maine now."

Dubois has agelong been tipped for greatness, ever since shining successful the Youth Olympics. She was calling retired the sport's biggest names more than 18 months ago, but her nonrecreational vocation has been cautiously managed.

Although a combat with Taylor whitethorn person provided the passing-of-the-torch infinitesimal and catapulted her illustration to caller heights, Dubois is nary longer chasing the Irish superstar.

"I don't consciousness similar I request Katie Taylor, and to beryllium honorable she doesn't request maine close now, truthful it is what it is," she says.

"That's not maine trying to beryllium disrespectful oregon anything, it's conscionable I would inactive beryllium blessed if our careers ne'er crossed. It doesn't truly substance to maine due to the fact that I consciousness similar I'm going to marque my ain legacy."

Dubois is expected to bushed underdog Camara. From past on, it is "big fights" and marquee names. Dubois mentions the likes of Mikaela Mayer and Alycia Baumgardner arsenic aboriginal opponents.

The much contiguous task, however, is to unify the part successful 2025 by claiming the vacant WBA rubric and beating IBF champion Beatriz Ferreira and WBO belt-holder Terri Harper.

Dubois is peculiarly dismissive of compatriot Harper, and was unimpressed by the Doncaster fighter's triumph implicit Rhiannon Dixon successful September.

"I thought she fought the combat truly afraid, truly scared, truly connected the backmost foot. It didn't amusement maine the tendency and the bosom required to beryllium a satellite champion," Dubois says.

The Hackney-born fighter's elevation to satellite champion capped a large twelvemonth for the Dubois sanction aft Daniel legitimised his world-title reign with a dominant triumph implicit Anthony Joshua successful September.

The siblings joined light-middleweight champion Sebastian Fundora and undisputed flyweight queen Gabriela Fundora successful becoming a brother-sister satellite champions.

But the feat was bitter-sweet. Dubois near her household location pursuing a rift with her father, Stan, successful 2023 and has reportedly not spoken to her member either.

Stan and his girl person fixed their versions of the feud successful abstracted interviews, and without getting excessively drawn into the details, the boxing champion says the athletics provided solace during immoderate "dark moments".

"I conscionable support reminding myself of the positives and the blessings alternatively of each the sadness and the negatives that travel with being a quality being," Dubois adds.

"How galore radical are going to accidental they wanted to bash thing astatine 9 years aged and beryllium doing it astatine 24?

"If boxing was taken distant from maine tomorrow, I would beryllium devastated. I would beryllium broken. So you conscionable retrieve that erstwhile it gets a small spot tough."