Miyo Yoshida: record, next fight and profile →
Most Valuable Promotions has announced a quadruple female-world-championship event, headlined by unified IBF and WBO junior-lightweight world champion Alycia Baumgardner stepping up to challenge IBF lightweight world champion Elif Nur Turhan over 10 three-minute rounds on Sunday, November 8, live (8:00 pm ET) on ESPN and the ESPN App from College Park Center in Arlington, Texas.
Skye Nicolson, the popular women’s WBC junior featherweight champion from Australia, has sustained an undisclosed injury that will force her off her Most Valuable Promotions’ debut card August 29 in England, the promotion announced Wednesday.
Skye Nicolson has been awarded the WBC’s vacant super-bantamweight championship after unified titlist Ellie Scotney opted to move up in weight. In her next fight, she will face two-weight champion, Miyo Yoshida.
For her first fight since February 2025, Yoshida will take on an opponent still to be determined at Haverhill High School in Massachusetts.
The team of Miyo Yoshida, a three-time, two-division world champion, is lobbying the IBF to match their fighter with bantamweight champion Cherneka Johnson.
Former two-division champion Miyo Yoshida returns to the ring in an eight-rounder on Saturday
The CompuBox statistics from Wednesday’s women’s bantamweight title fight and rematch between Miyo Yoshida and Shurretta Metcalf “clearly do not support the judges’ controversial 10-round unanimous decision in favor of Metcalf,” stated a press release sent to BoxingScene on Friday by Sullivan Management.
Shurretta Metcalf secured her first career title in a competitive rematch against bantamweight titleholder Miyo Yoshida on Wednesday at The Theater at Madison Square Garden.
On Wednesday, Metcalf, 13-4-1 (2 KOs), will challenge for Miyo Yoshida’s IBF bantamweight belt on the line. This is Metcalf’s first title fight but her second go-round with Yoshida. At 39, Metcalf isn’t likely to get many more bites at the apple.
Miyo Yoshida and Shurretta Metcalf both made weight ahead of their IBF women’s bantamweight title fight tomorrow at the Theater at Madison Square Garden.