MADRID, 3 Feb. (EUROPA PRESS) –
The Spanish boxer Tania Álvarez will try this Saturday to conquer the WBC Silver featherweight title (57 kilos) in a historic fight against the Australian Skye Nicolson that will be held in an emblematic setting such as Madison Square Garden.
The young Catalan, 21 years old and trained by Toni Moreno, will become the first national boxer to get into the ‘ring’ of the New York venue and will also do so with the aim of proclaiming herself world champion of this intermediate title in which she will be her eighth fight as a professional and that could propel him to greater heights. In fact, the winner could be the rival of the winner of the stellar fight of the night between the Puerto Rican Amanda Gutiérrez and the Mexican Erika Cruz for the undisputed featherweight.
The fight will face two boxers who have been in the professional world for a relatively short time since Álvarez debuted in 2021 and Nicolson, more veteran and with a little more international experience (27 years), did so in 2022 after training in the amateur world. , and with both so far without knowing defeat.
The Spanish boxer, nicknamed ‘La Violenta’, has not lost in her seven fights, the last one last November against the Galician Yaiza Souto and arrives encouraged for her first fight outside of Spain and where she hopes not to feel the pressure of a stage known as ‘The Mecca of Boxing’ and where just a few months ago Sandor Martín fell controversially to Teófimo López.
“The opportunity came up, but it was too soon and I didn’t expect it. For me it was a dream, but not so soon, I’ve only been a professional for seven years,” Álvarez acknowledged in an interview with ‘Onda Cero’, in the days prior to the evening, where he confessed to having “nerves, but the good ones”.
Opposite, a Skye Nicolson, world bronze in 2016, Olympian and champion in the Commonwealth Games in her positive amateur stage, who fought for the last time last October against her compatriot Krystina Jacobs and who already knows the atmosphere of Madison because he was there against American Shanecqua Paisley Davis last April. The evening can be seen through DAZN from 10:15 p.m.