Skye Nicolson deliberately reduced her promotional activities in the build-up to her victory over Mariah Turner after concluding that they had undermined her preparations for Tiara Brown.
She on Wednesday eased to victory in her WBC interim junior-featherweight title defence against her fellow Australian at The Melbourne Pavilion in Melbourne, Australia, and therefore edged closer to her first world-title fight since the defeat by Brown cost her the WBC title at 126lbs.
Nicolson, 30, continues to be linked to a contest with the undisputed champion Ellie Scotney of England, but Wednesday’s fight was her highest profile since that against Brown in March 2025, also in her home country, when by fight night her trainer Eddie Lam concluded that she was drained.
She has won her four fights since then to successfully rebuild and feature in the headline contest of Matchroom relaunching in Australia with the broadcaster Fox Sports, and Lam told BoxingScene: “We keep ourselves in a bubble and away from everything else – sometimes there’s just too many distractions.
“Now we just do the things that she has to do, and keep away from as much as we can, because obviously she has to do some of it, but it gets a bit much – sometimes you have to say ‘No’.
“In Sydney [before fighting Brown], that’s where we probably went wrong. All the stuff outside the boxing. She’d had the perfect camp; trained well. It’s all the distractions outside.
“She had the perfect camp. She had the best rounds’ sparring, and then she didn’t produce on the night. Maybe she’d left it in the gym – but, also, [there were] too many distractions. Too much media, and stuff like that. We keep ourselves in a bubble now; just our team with us.
“Skye’s been like the queen of Australian boxing for years.
“We’ve [also] gone back into the gym and we put things right.”
