The third time could be the charm for Sandy Tsagouris, who is making her third attempt at winning a world professional boxing title Saturday, March 18 at the Powerade Centre.

Tsagouris, who began her boxing career training at the Bramalea Boxing Club, is scheduled to face Carla Torres a native of Puerto Rico, for the vacant Women’s International Boxing Association World super featherweight title.

At the age of 36 Tsagouris, nicknamed Lil Tyson, said this week “it is overwhelming” that she is just days away from another shot at a world championship, and this time being able to fight in her hometown. She has a professional record of 15-2 with the only losses coming in her previous world title bouts.

Torres, 25, who now lives in Cleveland, has a record of 5-4 and is coming off a loss in her last bout, a four-round unanimous decision to American Jessica McCaskill on Jan. 21 in Chicago. Tsagouris feels she is well prepared heading in to meeting with Torres.

“She has a bit of an awkward style,” said Tsagouris. “I have had a lot of good training partners to work with,”

Tsagouris has won five times since her last defeat, that in 2011 to Hyun Mi Choi in Yesan Gun, South Korea with a third-round knockout — the only time she has been knocked out.

Her other loss was in 2008 to Ina Menzer in Nordmein-Westfalen, Germany, where the German won a 10-round unanimous decision. Tsagouris is the first Toronto-based fighter to fight for a world title in the GTA since Clyde Gray faced Jose Napoles for the welterweight belt at Maple Leaf Gardens in 1973.

The Tsagouris bout is one of three features on the show. Samuel Vargas, 27-year-old welterweight from Mississauga with a record of 25-3-1 faces Armando Robles, a 39-year-old from Mexico, who is 31-5-2.

Logan Cotton McGuinness, a 29-year-old lightweight from Orangeville, who is 25-0-1, faces Horacio Alfredo Cabral from Argentina, a 27-year-old with a 16-1 record in the other cofeature.

Also confirmed is Kane Heron from Etobicoke (4-0) facing Gregory Trenel of France, who is 8-3-1 in the welterweight division while superlightweight Namah Daghir of Hamilton (1-1) will face Kimmy St. Pierre of Quebec who is 1-3.