Two days after taking the IBF lightweight title from Elif Nur Turhan, Alycia Baumgardner skipped the long thank-you post and went straight to the next negotiation. “Fight where? 😝
TWO-DIVISION, baby! 💣🏆🏆” she wrote on X on Tuesday, attaching a clip from fight night.
The win came Sunday, Nov. 8, at MVPW07, a Most Valuable Promotions card that aired live on ESPN with the main card starting at 8:30 p.m. ET. TSS reported that Baumgardner outboxed Turhan to win the belt, a points victory instead of a stoppage. It apparently got close to one. MVP’s account posted during the bout that Baumgardner “ALMOST KNOCKED HER OUT,” and once the result was official the promotion called her a “2 time world champ” in a follow-up post.
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MVP had been leaning hard on her all weekend. On the day of Saturday’s weigh-ins the promotion’s account posted her name with “ARE YOU KIDDING ME🤩🤩🤩,” and on fight night it flagged her walkout as a highlight before she threw a punch. Whatever she did in that entrance, the people paying for the show clearly considered her the draw.
Why the question matters
For readers who live mostly on the MMA side, this one is boxing, and the belt math works differently. The IBF title is one sanctioning body’s version of the 135-pound crown, which makes a lightweight champion the obvious target for any promoter holding another piece of the division. Baumgardner’s post reads as an open invitation in that direction. She didn’t name an opponent, and she didn’t say whether she wants to defend the new belt, go after a unification, or head back to the division where she won her first title. She just asked about the venue, with a winking emoji, which is about as clear a signal as a fighter sends that she expects offers to come to her.
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None of the available sources name a next opponent, a date or a location for her first defense, and MVP hasn’t announced one publicly in the material reviewed for this story. Nothing on the record suggests a deal is close, either. The reporting only shows a new champion fishing in public.
What she does have, as of Sunday night, is a second division on her résumé and a promoter amplifying every move she makes. Her own post counts the hardware with two trophy emojis. The only blank left in it is the city.
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