Estelle Yoka-Mossely is ready to return to the ring after a year-long break and in a history-making bout.

The 2016 Olympic Gold medalist from Bagnolet, France attempts the third defense of her IBO lightweight belt versus Argentina’s Yanina del Carmen Lescano. Both boxers made weight for their scheduled 10-round bout Friday evening at Duty Free Tennis Stadium in Dubai, United Arab Emirates. The IBO belt at stake officially marks the first-ever female title fight to headline a boxing event in Dubai.

Yoka-Mossely (9-0, 1KO)—whose husband Tony Yoka is also a 2016 Olympic Gold medalist and now a current heavyweight contender—weighed 134 ½ pounds for her first fight since last March. Lescano (10-1, 2KOs) also weighed 134 ½ pounds for her first career title fight. Yoka-Mossely and Lescano both fight outside of their respective home countries for the first time in the pros.

Also of note on the first of back-to-back Probellum shows in Dubai, O’Shaquie Foster and Muhammadkhuja Yaqubov collide in a scheduled 12-round WBC junior lightweight title eliminator.

Houston’s Foster (18-2, 11KOs) weighed 129.8 pounds as he aims to extend his current eight fight win streak. Yaqubov (18-0, 10KOs)—a Tajikistani southpaw who lives and has previously fought exclusively in Russia—checked in at 129.6 pounds.

Foster has not fought since a ninth-round knockout win over Mexico’s Miguel Roman in November 2020. The streaking junior lightweight contender spent the entirety of 2021 embroiled in a lawsuit with DiBella Entertainment, which was dismissed with prejudice last November, roughly aroud the time that Foster signed with Probellum.

The winner will be in the hunt for the WBC junior lightweight title currently held by Oscar Valdez (30-0, 23KOs) who next faces WBO titlist Shakur Stevenson (17-0, 9KOs) in an April 30 unification bout at MGM Grand Garden Arena in Las Vegas.

The show also features Uzbekistan’s Bakhodir Jalolov (9-0, 9KOs), a two-time Olympian who captured a Gold medal as a super heavyweight in last summer’s Tokyo Olympics. Jalolov weighed 255 pounds for his scheduled eight-round bout versus grossly overmatched Polish heavyweight Kamil Sokolowski (11-25-2, 4KOs), who weighed 242 pounds.

Below are the weights for the rest of the undercard, which airs live on Fubo Sports Network in the U.S.

Jono Carroll (21-2-1, 6KOs), Dublin, 131.4 pounds vs. Patrick Ayi Aryee (21-0-1, 13KOs), Accra, Ghana, 132 pounds—10 rounds, junior lightweight

Shabaz Masoud (9-0, 2KOs), Stoke-on-Trent, Staffordshire, UK, 135.7 pounds vs. Yoan Boyeaux (43-6, 26KOs), 135.7 pounds—10 rounds, lightweight

Rohan Date (13-0-1, 9KOs), Dubai via Manchester, UK, 149.9 pounds vs. Tom Hill (9-2, 2KOs), Redcar, Yorkshire, UK, 149.7 pounds—8 rounds, welterweight 

Joshua Ridgewell (1-0, 0KOs), Basildon, Essex, UK, 131.2 pounds vs. Suraj Ram (3-3, 1KO), India, 129.2 pounds—4 rounds, junior lightweight

Sultan Al Nuaimi (7-0, 5KOs), Dubai, 113 ¾ pounds vs. Hamza Mchanjo (17-15-3, 3KOs), Dar-Es-Salaam, Tanzania, 116.4 pounds—six rounds, junior bantamweight

Eyrk Apresyan (8-1, 5KOs), Marbella, Spain via Bydgoszcz, Poland, 149 ¼ pounds vs.  Burak Akkus (5-2, 3KOs), Istanbul, Turkey, 149 ¼ pounds—six rounds, junior middleweight

Zlad Wael Hamza (1-0, 1KO), Egypt, 177.4 pounds vs. Karanjeet Singh (0-2, 0KOs), India, 168 ¼ pounds—4 rounds, light heavyweight 

Jake Donovan is a senior writer for krikya360.com. Twitter: @JakeNDaBox