Caroline Dubois has found an opponent for this weekend while another is sought ahead of a major title fight.

The unbeaten lightweight is tabbed to next face American contender Miranda Reyes. Their ten-round bout will serve in supporting capacity to the Joshua Buatsi-Dan Azeez WBA light heavyweight title eliminator this Saturday on Sky Sports and Peacock+ from OVO Arena Wembley in London.

Houston’s Reyes (7-1-1, 3KOs) has won her last two starts, both versus her best competition to date since a February 2022 six-round, majority decision defeat to Jaica Pavilus. In her most recent start, the 22-year-old outpointed former junior featherweight titlist Yazmin Rivas over six rounds last September 8 in her Houston hometown.

Saturday’s bout will mark her first scheduled ten-round affair.

London’s Dubois (8-0, 5KOs) has emerged as a can’t-miss future star. The 23-year-old southpaw is enough of a threat to where it has become increasingly difficult to secure opponents.

This fight was scheduled while Dubois—a 2020 Tokyo Olympics quarterfinalist for Great Britain—was previously ordered to next challenge for the vacant IBF lightweight title. The sanctioning body called for an all-UK fight between Dubois and Chesire’s Rhiannon Dixon (9-0, 1KO), who will instead bid for the vacant WBO title versus former title challenger Karen Elizabeth Carabajal.

The IBF and WBO lightweight titles were both recently vacated by Ireland’s Katie Taylor (24-1, 6KOs), a two-division undisputed champion who has chosen to remain at junior welterweight.

With a win on Saturday, Dubois—the younger sister of former WBA ‘Regular’ heavyweight titlist Daniel Dubois—will await the IBF’s instructions for whom she needs to next enter negotiations.

Meanwhile, she will enter her second straight ten-round affair with the lesser-regarded IBO title at stake this weekend. In her most recent outing, Dubois went the full ten-round distance for the first time in a landslide decision win over Mexico’s Magail Rodriguez last September 30 at the famed York Hall in Bethnal Green.  

Jake Donovan is a senior writer for krikya360.com. X (formerly Twitter): @JakeNDaBox