Skye Nicolson

Skye Nicolson
Born
Skye Brittany Nicolson

(1995-08-27) 27 August 1995
Meadowbrook, Queensland,
Australia
Statistics
Weight(s)Featherweight, Super-bantamweight
Height5 ft 5+1⁄2 in (166 cm)
Reach68+1⁄2 in (174 cm)[1]
StanceSouthpaw
Boxing record
Total fights14
Wins13
Wins by KO2
Losses1
Medal record
Women's Boxing
Representing  Australia
World Championships
2016 Astana Light welterweight
Commonwealth Games
2018 Gold Coast Featherweight

Skye Brittany Nicolson (born 27 August 1995) is an Australian professional boxer.[2] She is a former WBC featherweight world champion. As an amateur, she competed in the featherweight event at the 2018 Commonwealth Games, winning the gold medal. Nicolson also represented Australia at the delayed 2020 Tokyo Olympics.

Early life

Nicolson was born at Logan Hospital in Meadowbrook, Queensland.[3] Her father is Scottish-born Allan, originally from Glasgow,[4] and her mother is English-born Pat from London.[5] Nicolson grew up on the Gold Coast[6] and attended Our Lady's College throughout her upbringing.[7] She started boxing training at 12 years of age in the Gold Coast suburb of Yatala at the Jamie Nicolson Memorial Gym, which is named after her late brother.[8] Notable students she grew up training alongside in the same Yatala gym include future world champions Cherneka Johnson and Che Kenneally.[9] Her brothers, Jamie and Gavin, were killed in a car crash a year before she was born.[10] Jamie was one of the greatest amateur boxers in Australian history who competed at the 1992 Olympic Games and won a bronze medal at the 1990 Commonwealth Games.[11]

Amateur career

In 2016, Nicolson won bronze at the World Championships in the Welterweight division. She missed out on the Rio 2016 Olympics and moved down 4 weight classes to the featherweight division. She then competed at the 2018 Gold Coast Commonwealth Games and won gold. Nicolson defeated Michaela Walsh from Northern Ireland in the final bout in a split decision and walked away with the victory in her home city of the Gold Coast.[10]

The Queensland athlete claimed her spot on the Tokyo 2020 Australian Olympic Team at the 2020 Asia and Oceana Qualification event held in Amman, Jordan after defeating Mongolia's Bolortuul Tumurkhuyag.[12]

Nicolson reached the quarter-final of the delayed 2020 Tokyo Olympics, before suffering a 3–2 defeat to Great Britain’s Karriss Artingstall.[13] She retired from amateur competition with a record of 107–32.

Professional career

Nicolson made her professional debut on 3 March 2022, at the Pechanga Resort & Casino in San Diego, USA, against the American fighter Jessica Juarez. Nicolson won the bout by unanimous decision.[14][15][16]

On 15 October 2022, Nicolson defeated Krystina Jacobs by unanimous decision to win her first professional belt, inaugural Commonwealth female featherweight championship in Brisbane, Australia.[17] The outing was her first pro-fight on home soil.[18]

On 4 February 2023, Nicolson defeated Tania Alvarez by unanimous decision to win WBC female Silver featherweight championship at the Hulu Theater in New York, USA.[19][20]

On 15 September 2023, Nicolson challenged Sabrina Maribel Perez for the interim WBC featherweight championship at Auditorio Fausto Gutierrez Moreno in Tijuana, Mexico.[21] She won the fight by unanimous decision.[22]

On 25 November 2023 at 3Arena in Dublin, Ireland, Nicolson retained her interim WBC featherweight championship via ninth-round technical knockout against Lucy Wildheart.[23][24][25]

WBC women's featherweight champion

Nicolson vs. Mahfoud

In January 2024, it was announced that Nicolson would face Sarah Mahfoud for the vacant WBC female featherweight title in Australia.[26][27] Early March 2024, the fight was scheduled for 6 April 2024 at Fontainebleau Las Vegas in Winchester, Nevada, USA[28] Nicolson defeated Mahfoud via unanimous decision (100-90, 100-90, 99-91) and took the vacant title.[29][30][31][32]

Nicolson vs. Vargas

Nicolson made the first defense of her WBC featherweight title against Dyana Vargas at Wells Fargo Center in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, on 13 July 2024, winning the fight by unanimous decision with all three ringside judges scoring the contest 100-90.[33][34][35][36]

Nicolson vs. Chapman

Nicolson made the second defense of her title against the previously unbeaten Raven Chapman at Kingdom Arena in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, on 12 October 2024, in what was the first women's world title boxing fight held in Saudi Arabia[37] and the first women’s bout to feature on a Riyadh Season show.[38] She won the fight by unanimous decision, with scorecards of 98-92 and 99-91.[39][40][41]

Nicolson vs. Brown

Nicolson made the third defense of her WBC featherweight title against Tiara Brown at Qudos Bank Arena in Sydney, Australia on 22 March 2025.[42][43] She lost by split decision.[44][45]

Super-bantamweight

Dropping down to campaign at super-bantamweight, Nicolson returned to the ring against Carla Camila Campos Gonzales at Manchester Arena, Manchester, England, on 5 July 2025, stopping her opponent in the second of their scheduled eight-round contest.[46][47]

Professional boxing record

14 fights 13 wins 1 loss
By knockout 2 0
By decision 11 1
No. Result Record Opponent Type Round, time Date Location Notes
14 Win 13–1 Carla Camila Campos Gonzales TKO 2 (8), 1:21 5 Jul 2025 Manchester Arena, Manchester, England
13 Loss 12–1 Tiara Brown SD 10 22 Mar 2025 Qudos Bank Arena, Sydney Olympic Park, Australia Lost WBC female featherweight title
12 Win 12–0 Raven Chapman UD 10 12 Oct 2024 Kingdom Arena, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia Retained WBC female featherweight title
11 Win 11–0 Dyana Vargas UD 10 13 Jul 2024 Wells Fargo Center, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, US Retained WBC female featherweight title
10 Win 10–0 Sarah Mahfoud UD 10 6 Apr 2024 Fontainebleau Las Vegas, Winchester, Nevada, US Won vacant WBC female featherweight title
9 Win 9–0 Lucy Wildheart TKO 9 (10), 1:11 25 Nov 2023 3Arena, Dublin, Ireland Retained WBC interim featherweight title
8 Win 8–0 Sabrina Maribel Pérez UD 10 15 Sep 2023 Auditorio Fausto Gutierrez Moreno, Tijuana, Mexico Won WBC interim featherweight title
7 Win 7–0 Linda Laura Lecca PTS 8 22 Apr 2023 Motorpoint Arena, Cardiff, Wales
6 Win 6–0 Tania Alvarez UD 10 4 Feb 2023 Hulu Theater, New York City, New York, US Won vacant WBC Silver featherweight title
5 Win 5–0 Krystina Jacobs UD 10 15 Oct 2022 South Bank Piazza, South Brisbane, Queensland, Australia Won inaugural Commonwealth female featherweight title
4 Win 4–0 Gabriela Bouvier PTS 8 4 Jun 2022 Motorpoint Arena, Cardiff, Wales
3 Win 3–0 Shanecqua Paisley Davis UD 6 30 Apr 2022 Madison Square Garden, New York City, New York, US
2 Win 2–0 Bec Connolly PTS 6 26 Mar 2022 First Direct Arena, Leeds, England
1 Win 1–0 Jessica Juarez UD 6 3 Mar 2022 Pechanga Arena, San Diego, California, US

See also

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