Skye Nicolson makes her debut at junior featherweight this weekend after losing her WBC featherweight title to Tiara Brown in March — and she feels she's right where she belongs at 122 pounds.

Nicolson (12-1, 1 KO) became a 126-pound champion in her 10th fight, beating Sarah Mahfoud by unanimous decision, before defending it successfully on two occasions.

The Australian came unstuck earlier this year, however, as she was beaten by American Brown via split decision on a homecoming show headlined by George Kambosos Jr Down Under.

Nicolson pursued a rematch but has said Brown wasn't interested, so the next chapter of her career, at the weight class below, gets underway on July 5 against Carla Camila Campos Gonzales (9-3, 8 KOs). The fight takes place on the Jack Catterall-Harlem Eubank undercard and will stream live on DAZN.

Now that Nicolson has made tweaks to her training and dialled down the calories, she insists she's at the weight division she should have been all along.

"This little 8-rounder in Manchester is a little taste test for super bantamweight, we're going to have the fight at 124 pounds, two above championship weight," Nicolson told The Ring.

"So far it feels like it's going to be a great move for me, it almost feels like I've been boxing up a weight my whole career and now I'm going to my true weight division. It's a new chapter in so many ways.

"I've never struggled to make 126 as a pro. As my lifestyle has adapted in the last couple of years ... I now stay in shape outside of camp, I like training outside of camp, whereas before I used to eat lots of [expletive], blow up, get really unfit and then the first few weeks of camp I was getting off the extra weight.

"But as a pro, the start of camp's a place where I'm already fit, it's been good, I haven't been getting fat and unfit. So that's the thought process behind going to 122.

"My last camp I was walking around 62kg [136 pounds] and since coming back from the Brown fight, I kept my body ticking over and healthy and now I'm walking around at 59kg [130 pounds] and I feel really good for it. I feel like I'm training at the weight I should've been all along."

Nicolson even admits that she's been advised, on more than one occasion, that she should have moved to junior featherweight much earlier in her career.

The 29-year-old previously sneered at the thought of it, but has warned 122-pounders that she's on the prowl.

"I've been told by numerous people throughout my first years as a pro that I should be boxing at 122 and I've just kind of laughed it off. It was almost me saying 'Why would I go down a weight when I can win at this weight?'.

"That was probably an arrogant mindset, I was probably missing an opportunity, letting one slide. I should've started at super bantam and then gone up. There aren't many world champions who go down a division.

"Look out, super bantam division."