Jessica McCaskill believes she is blazing a trail for womens boxing with Erica Farias at Chicago ahead of the WBA and WBC world super-lightweight title defence that weekend.
McCaskill confronts Farias (26-3) at a rematch on the undercard of Oleksandr Usyks heavyweight advent against Chazz Witherspoon about Sunday afternoon at 2am, live on Sky Sports Action.
Even the 35-year-old outpointed experienced Argentine Farias to win the WBC title in her eighth fight a year and merged the division that was 140lbs with victory over WBA winner Anahi Sanchez in May.
I really feel now I am the game-changer, said McCaskill, who narrowly lost to Katie Taylor if she challenged the Irish superstar for the WBA lightweight title at York Hall in December 2017.
There are people which have been in the sport that I am dethroning, I am really on a fast-track; Ive won two world titles and struggled for three in only nine fights, I feel as if Im the wildcard and folks are watching to find out what is going to happen next.
Her skills have been honed by mcCaskill with coach Rick Ramos since the amateur ranks when she turned to boxing combing the sport.
Rick has always been very transparent with me. He told me that this would be a really fast-paced livelihood, we had a couple of amateur struggles together and then he explained: its time to turn expert.
There has been a really distinct difference between my very first fight with Rick and also my last few struggles with him. I knocked people out and battling.
Being in a position to make this transition from amateur to expert with exactly the identical person is unheard of and to be as powerful as weve been shows were doing the proper thing.
The rematch with Farias of mcCaskill is a part of a night of actions in Chicago, topped with Usyk battle as heavyweight, while Dmitry Bivol sets his WBASuper title against Lenin Castillo.
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