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EPISODE: Episode 59
Today Mike and Cedric discuss Skye Nicolson, an Australian boxer. She competed in the featherweight event at the 2018 Commonwealth Games, winning the gold medal. In her first bout in the women’s Feather preliminaries, she beat Aeji Im from the Republic of Korea on points. She was beaten in the quarterfinals by Kariss Artingstall from Great Britain.
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Transcribed:
[, Music, ] hello, there, boxing fans around the world.
Thank you for joining us once again for another episode of talk and fight knuckle up featuring mike orr and cedric band.
We’Re going to talk about skye nicholson there we go.
We got it right.
So what we’re going to do is we’re going to get graham out of here, so i’m just going to push him up and get rid of there.
We go there.
We go he’s gone okay, okay! Now we can get down to brass tacks here, get it done right.
First of all, it’s international women’s day! So yes um instead of you, know us profiling.
The guy today we’re doing a wonderful woman.
Who’S just come off.
Her debut win this weekend, cedric.
What a great match, what a great boxer this girl is! Yes, yes, uh skye nicholson! Um.
I really appreciate.
I really appreciate her style um because she starts out with with the fundamentals and then she, you know as soon as she feels comfortable she’ll.
She’Ll drop her her lead hand, but she still knows how to use it properly.
She still uses nice long, good, good, punches.
Even though she has her lead hand down and her defense is still good too so um yeah man, yeah man.
Well, this guy.
This girl was born 27 august 1995 she’s an australian boxer.
She competed in the featherweight event at the 2018 commonwealth games, winning the gold medal in her first yeah in her first bout in the women’s feather 54 to 57 kilogram preliminaries uh, she beat uh a g m from republic of korea on points uh.
She was beaten in the quarterfinals by uh charis uh artingstahl from great britain um.
You know, sky nicholson started boxing when she was 12 years of age uh.
She is the sister of the boxer.
Jamie nicholson who died before she was born.
Jamie was one of the greatest boxers in australian history and competed at the 1992 olympic games uh.
He won a bronze medal at the 1990 commonwealth games and in 1995 a year before sky no killson was born.
Jamie and his younger brother uh were involved in a fatal car crash.
Uh in 2016 nicholson won bronze at the world championships in the welterweight division.
She missed out on the real 2016 olympics and moved down a weight class uh to the featherweight division.
She then competed at the 2018 gold coast commonwealth games and won gold.
Uh nicholson defeated michaela walsh from northern ireland in the quarterfinal or sorry in the final bout in a split decision and then walked away uh from the victory on our home soil uh.
The queensland athlete claims your spot on the 2020 australian olympic team at the 2020 asia and oceana qualification event held in amman, jordan, after defeating mongolia’s, uh, borlotu uh, i’m going to say, tamar gurgayan, it’s hard to pronounce um very hard to pronounce yes, but um yeah Man she uh, she came out uh.
You know she signed a match room uh, you know, she’s got she’s.
She’S got some great people behind her man.
That’S her! That’S for sure um yeah yeah! So you know this girl, she’s 26 man she’s a southpaw she’s.
You know five: five foot five and a half uh.
You know she’s ranked number one out of 27 in the feather division in australia, she’s right 10th out of 199 in the world uh.
You know she’s from queensland.
Well, she resides in queensland, australia uh.
She grew up in meadowbrook and uh yeah man.
I can’t wait to see uh see this girl in action.
Man uh, i did find an amateur record of 62 wins with 21 losses.
I don’t know if that is the exact numbers, but it sounds like a pretty good one to be honest, uh, you know if it’s some, if it’s from bach box wreck – it’s probably not probably better, i don’t know always messes up people’s amateur records.
That botsway does a good job of showing the pro records, but yes, because because it’s updated every day, that’s why that’s why you know looking at her i’m just looking at her.
You were talking about her um, her amateur stats, and i have her highlights on here from the commonwealth games in in the in the final from 2018 um and right before this, i was watching her pro debut and you definitely see you know she had this style As an amateur and as i mentioned before, like she starts out, she starts up with her hands up nice.
You know, with the fundamentals to you know, just to see what her opponent has and then once once she kind of sees what you’re going to do.
Then you can see it when she gets comfortable the more comfortable she gets.
The the lower her hands are by by the middle of the second round.
Her hands are like halfway by her stomach, but her defense is still good um.
The adjustment that i’ve sheet that i see that she’s made is um.
She still keeps that that lead hand low, but she does keep her opposite hand by her chin uh, which is obviously important just in case something gets by the the the first, the first um.
The first uh front of defense um, so that’s good, yeah, uh, she’s managed by paul reddy at stn sports uh.
You know it’s like so paul nicholson now turns her attention on making her mark in the professional scene and uh.
You know coming through with that.
Big victory uh this weekend.
She has definitely uh made her mark and let people know that she’s here here to do business, man and uh.
She is definitely going to uh.
You know tear it up in her division.
You know olympic heartache is a tough obstacle to overcome for any athlete, but especially when it comes uh.
You know the opinion of the judges rather than your own performance, and you know skye nicholson.
Faced exactly that.
Last summer, whitney seen her dream shatter uh on the scorecards of the judges in the olympics.
Right nicholson exited the tokyo games after the quarterfinal stage losing to uh the brit perez uh artinstall in a split decision, despite most viewers, believing she had done more than enough for the victory uh seven months later, uh, you know she’s back in the ring, but this Time in the pro game and uh she took on jessica, juarez.
Who was three, you know uh, you know and she was home.
She was hometown man and uh.
You know if you guys watch this fight, she definitely uh.
Let us know that she’s here and she means business, and you know she is.
She is talented man.
You know stepping in just to into the ring against somebody.
Who’S already got three fights under their belt and uh.
Honestly, she dominated that whole match uh.
She she controlled the pace and uh.
You know she.
She inflicted some damage man.
It was a great, a great bout and a great opening match.
Uh anything you want to add cedric nah man, i um a lot of times um.
I appreciate that the females that come with a little extra style – not all not all of them, do it um, so i really appreciate sky, uh, sky nicholson’s style and i’m really looking forward to watching her career yeah.
Definitely definitely, i think, we’re gon na see a lot more of her.
You know uh.
She she had a lot of these promotional companies coming at her uh right after the olympics.
Man and you know, eddie hearn does what he does best man and uh.
You know he talked her into coming to match room and i think match room is gon na, be a great fit for her.
I think that uh, her management team and match room together are gon na, be able to do her justice and you know, bring her.
The fights that she needs and honestly walk her through uh.
You know her the beginning of her pro career perfectly uh.
You know they’re gon na do her well they’ll set her up in the right fights man and we’re gon na get to see her a few times, probably uh this year.
Uh, because you know matt’s room, they keep their fighters busy man.
They don’t like to leave him on the shelf too long to get stale.
So you know, i i say we’ll see her fighting back in the ring at least uh by the end of next month, or you know early the month after and i’m excited to see it man.
So i can’t wait.
I can’t wait.
Man guys be on the lookout for this girl.
Man skye nicholson.
She means business uh.
You know little five foot, five and a half southpaw man she’s got big power in that left hand and she’s not afraid to use it, she’s, not afraid to get in there and get uh get banged man, that’s that’s it.
She throws gloves and she ain’t and she ain’t afraid to do battle and that’s what we love.
Then she’s got heart and uh.
You know she’s fighting she’s fighting to represent her countrymen and she’s and she’s there to make businessman and do business, and you know she boxes a lot like her brother man and uh.
You know he was.
He was a great boxer, so we good things are coming for this girl and you know we see good things on the horizon for her.
So guys make sure you check her out man, that’s sky nicholson.
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