Bidarian to Shields Camp on Cameron: 'You Make Us the Offer'; Baumgardner Says 'The Work Is Never Done'

ARLINGTON, Texas — Alycia Baumgardner won the fight. Nakisa Bidarian won the news cycle.

Hours after Baumgardner swept Elif Nur Turhan 100-90 on all three cards to take the IBF lightweight title at College Park Center (full MVPW 07 results here), the Most Valuable Promotions co-founder used the post-fight podium to fire a shot at the biggest fight in women's boxing that isn't made: Claressa Shields vs. Chantelle Cameron.

Bidarian: "So You Make Us the Offer"

Bidarian said the Shields side doesn't understand "the bigger picture," calling a Cameron fight "the most important event for Claressa Shields' career" against "the true number two pound-for-pound fighter in the world who beat Katie Taylor in Ireland."

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"They put out a number. They said, 'We offered her $1.1 million,'" Bidarian said. "The last time the pound-for-pound number one and number two fought, they walked away with over $10 million. But we're not making that offer because you haven't apologized. You haven't shown the respect to the rest of the women in the sport of boxing. So you make us the offer."

He added that "Chantelle wants to fight," that MVP supports it, and that the deal only happens "as long as you have two willing participants and the financials make sense." He was also blunt about the business: "We're not making money in women's boxing right now. We're in this for the long haul." Those are Bidarian's characterizations of a negotiation; no Shields-Cameron fight has been agreed.

Baumgardner: "The Skills Pay the Bills, Baby"

The new two-division champion, now 19-1 with 7 KOs, sounded like someone who'd written the script in advance — because she had. "Everything that I talk about, I believe. I write it down," Baumgardner said. "We became a two-time world champion against a tough, tough opponent… I needed this fight to keep me humble, to keep me hungry."

On the game plan: "It was all about staying composed and staying true to what I'm great at, and that's keeping my hands up. That's being skillful. The skills pay the bills, baby." On the punch that did it: "That jab was working, y'all. The jab sets everything up." She said she logged "160 rounds of sparring" for this camp, and on what's next kept it big-picture: "What's next is to continue laying the foundation… the work is never done." For the trash talk that set this up, see our final presser story.

Nicolson Wants Ali Next; Garcia Wants Hiruta

WBC super bantamweight champ Skye Nicolson (17-1) admitted her decision over Miyo Yoshida "wasn't my best performance," revealing she'd perforated her eardrum "in two places" in sparring before her August withdrawal and was hit on the ear early Sunday. Her next target is no secret: new IBF and WBO champion Ramla Ali. "There'd be three belts on the line. Finally, a unification fight for me that's been a long, long time coming."

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Ali, whose split decision over Mikiah Kreps is already drawing heat (Martin Ruva breaks down the cards and the backlash), said she told her corner mid-fight, "I'm so tired. I can't do this," and her coach answered, "Think about your dad. Do this for your dad."

Irma Garcia, 45, a police officer and now unified IBF and WBA super flyweight champion, said "age is just a number" and that she's "waiting for MVP to make the Mizuki fight come true," pointing at Mizuki Hiruta. Unbeaten Albina Moldazhanova (6-0, 6 KOs) named her target too: "I want to fight Terri Harper."

The Kimster's Take

Credit Bidarian for this much: he knows how to keep a fight in the headlines after the lights go off. But "you make us the offer" is a negotiating posture, not a press release with a date on it. Until both sides sign, Shields-Cameron is talk. What's real today is Baumgardner at 135, a Nicolson-Ali three-belt fight sitting right there at 122, and a 45-year-old cop who keeps refusing to act her age. Think one of those gets made next? Check the fighters' Boxbid pages and lock in your round call on Fight Picker and Guess the Rounds when the next card drops. MVP's next big women's date is Dubois vs. Han on Feb. 20 in El Paso.

Sources: Most Valuable Promotions MVPW-07 results and post-fight press conference quotes release, Nov. 8, 2026; MVP post-fight press conference replay. Photo: Most Valuable Promotions.