{"id":459210,"date":"2025-12-20T03:50:13","date_gmt":"2025-12-20T03:50:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/459210\/"},"modified":"2025-12-20T03:50:13","modified_gmt":"2025-12-20T03:50:13","slug":"caroline-dubois-marks-u-s-debut-with-emphatic-points-win","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/459210\/","title":{"rendered":"Caroline Dubois marks U.S. debut with emphatic points win"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Dec 19, 2025, 06:21 PM ET<\/p>\n<p>Caroline Dubois marked her first fight with Jake Paul&#8217;s Most Valuable Promotions with a unanimous points win against Camilla Panatta on Friday.<\/p>\n<p>Dubois (12-0-1 5 KOs) defended her WBC lightweight title with a dominant performance, with her impressive skill set on full display in Miami.<\/p>\n<p>All three judges scored it 99-90 in favour of Dubois.<\/p>\n<p>Editor&#8217;s Picks<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a name=\"&amp;lpos=story:editorspicks:inline:1\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/boxing\/story\/_\/id\/47328501\/caroline-dubois-claims-baddest-woman-planet-tag-ahead-mvp-debut\" class=\"img-link\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/r1590322_1296x1296_1-1.jpg&#038;w=130&#038;h=130&#038;scale=crop&#038;location=center.jpeg\" width=\"65\" height=\"65\"\/><\/a><\/li>\n<li><a name=\"&amp;lpos=story:editorspicks:inline:2\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/boxing\/story\/_\/id\/47347091\/alycia-baumgardner-caroline-dubois-too-much-boxing-jake-paul-anthony-joshua-undercard\" class=\"img-link\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/r1591099_1296x1296_1-1.jpg&#038;w=130&#038;h=130&#038;scale=crop&#038;location=center.jpeg\" width=\"65\" height=\"65\"\/><\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>1 Related<\/p>\n<p>Despite having not fought since March, the Brit hardly missed a beat and imposed herself from Round 1, landing a clean right hand early in the fight, and it was one-way traffic from there.<\/p>\n<p>Dubois&#8217; superior movement and footwork made it hard for Panatta (8-3-1, 1 KO) to land anything.<\/p>\n<p>By Round 3, Dubois had ramped up the pressure, often leading with her right jab before launching a left hand which Panatta couldn&#8217;t cope with.<\/p>\n<p>The Italian challenger was game and looked to force the action at times, but Dubois moved well throughout and proved evasive.<\/p>\n<p><img class=\" lazyload lazyload\" data-image-container=\".inline-photo\" height=\"320\" width=\"570\"\/>Caroline Dubois, right, defended her lightweight title in style Friday.\u00a0Ed Mulholland\/Getty Images for Netflix<\/p>\n<p>Dubois got her reward in Round 6, with a big right hand from close range, dropping Panatta, who got back to her feet and only had a few seconds to survive before the end of the round.<\/p>\n<p>Resisting the temptation to jump in and push for an early stoppage in Rounds 7 and 8, Dubois went back to her boxing.<\/p>\n<p>Heading into the final round, trainer Shane McGuigan urged Dubois to &#8220;put the icing on the cake&#8221; and go for the stoppage, and while it didn&#8217;t come, she did sign off with a big right hand in an impressive American debut.<\/p>\n<p><img class=\" lazyload lazyload\" data-image-container=\".inline-photo\" height=\"320\" width=\"570\"\/>Cherneka Johnson beat Amanda Galle in a bloody, bruising fight.\u00a0Carmen Mandato\/Getty Images for Netflix<\/p>\n<p>Later, Cherneka Johnson defended her undisputed bantamweight title with a unanimous win over Amanda Galle.<\/p>\n<p>Johnson (19-2, 8 KOs) won 99-91, 98-92 and 97-93 on the judges&#8217; scorecards.<\/p>\n<p>The pair let their hands go from the opening bell and it was a sign of things to come. Johnson was cut above the left eye by the end of Round 1, while Galle (12-1-1,1 KO) was bloodied by the end of the next round.<\/p>\n<p>The brutal fight was fought in the pocket for the majority, with Johnson landing the cleaner punches.<\/p>\n<p>Galle&#8217;s output was impressive, and she caught Johnson on several occasions on the head and body, but the champion handled it well.<\/p>\n<p>At the halfway point, the canvas needed to be wiped with so much blood spilled. Galle kept pushing until the final bell, but Johnson&#8217;s class shone through as she defended her titles for the first time.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Dec 19, 2025, 06:21 PM ET Caroline Dubois marked her first fight with Jake Paul&#8217;s Most Valuable Promotions&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":459211,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[51,50,52],"class_list":{"0":"post-459210","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-news","8":"tag-headlines","9":"tag-news","10":"tag-top-stories"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115749862683616091","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/459210","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=459210"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/459210\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/459211"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=459210"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=459210"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=459210"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}