“I can definitely do that.”<\/b><\/p>\n
Tiah-Mai Ayton, 19, has set her sights on becoming the youngest ever undisputed champion in the four-belt era across both genders in boxing.<\/p>\n
America’s Gabriela Fundora was just 22 when she held all the world titles in the flyweight division in November 2024.<\/p>\n
Ayton clearly isn’t shy when laying out her ambitions, but why should she? In over 300 fights across Muay Thai, mixed martial arts, kickboxing, jiu-jitsu and boxing, just three of those have been defeats – which she later avenged.<\/p>\n
She will contest her second professional boxing bout against Lydie Bialic on Saturday.<\/p>\n
When the Bristol fighter was told about Fundora’s achievement, her eyes lit up: “I could do that. I can definitely do that. <\/p>\n
“That’s going to be a new challenge for me. I’ve got a long time.”<\/p>\n
Ayton is right. She does have a long time, but women’s boxing also moves fast – just look at compatriot Nina Hughes. <\/p>\n
She won a world title in just her fifth fight as a professional. <\/p>\n
Not only is Ayton setting her sights on records, but she’s got her eyes on gold and plenty of it.<\/p>\n
“I want to be undisputed in bantamweight and super-bantamweight and then it goes featherweight and super-featherweight,” said Ayton.<\/p>\n
“I want to do those four categories, and I want to be undisputed in all four. It’s high expectations but I think I can do it.”<\/p>\n
Only one boxer, Claressa Shields, has won all four world titles in three different weights, no one yet has managed it in four.<\/p>\n
The likes of Katie Taylor and Amanda Serrano have paved the way for women boxers to earn millions of pounds but Ayton isn’t getting carried away despite her youth.<\/p>\n
When asked what she would purchase with her first healthy fight purse, the teenager opted against a flash car.<\/p>\n
“I want a farm. I want cows, sheep, goats and chickens. That’s my dream,” Ayton said.<\/p>\n
“I’ll just live a quiet life on my farm and then when I train, I’ll go into camp, and then go back and be peaceful.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"“I can definitely do that.” Tiah-Mai Ayton, 19, has set her sights on becoming the youngest ever undisputed…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":396745,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4108],"tags":[1935,79,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-396744","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-boxing","8":"tag-boxing","9":"tag-sports","10":"tag-uk","11":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115145032611265573","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/396744","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=396744"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/396744\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/396745"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=396744"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=396744"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=396744"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}