Skye Nicolson booked in for Queensland homecoming as former champ resumes super bantamweight campaign

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Tom Naghten
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Former world champion Skye Nicolson will resume her campaign for a title in a second weight class on home soil.

The southpaw has been booked to face Urvashi Singh at Brisbane's Fortitude Music Hall on August 23, marking the Queenslander's first fight in her home state since 2022.

It's a bout which will appear on the undercard to a domestic lightweight showdown between Jake Wyllie and Youssef Dib.

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Having won the WBC featherweight title, Nicolson, 29, dropped down to super bantamweight following the first defeat of her professional career.

The UK-based Aussie now has now set her sights on becoming a two-division world champion.

A fight with India's Singh shapes more as a stay-busy bout than a step up in competition, but with less than 15 fights on her record, all ring time can be considered valuable experience.

The early part of Nicolson's career was played out in fast-forward, seeing her win the interim WBC strap at 126-pounds in her eighth fight, before getting her hands on the full world title in her 10th.

She then made two defences of the belt before running into the awkward challenge of an unbeaten Tiara Brown in Sydney earlier this year.

The American spoiled Nicolson's world title homecoming, taking the belt with a split points decision and prompting the Australian to move down to 122-pounds.

Beginning life as a super bantamweight against Bolivia's Carla Gonzalez in Manchester earlier this month, Nicolson blasted her overmatched opponent out of there in round two to achieve the second knockout win of her career.

Now, Nicolson faces the 12-3 Singh in another bout in which she'll be heavily favoured to win.

Having spent much of her reign as featherweight champion calling out the legendary Amanda Serrano, Nicolson's loss to Brown has forced her to change course somewhat.

If her performance against Gonzalez was anything to go by, the move down to super bantamweight may have added stopping power to her arsenal, joining her slick defensive skills and counter punching ability.

With the Serrano fight off the table for now, a meeting with unified champion Ellie Scotney looks to be the biggest one on offer for the former Olympian.