2 d. ago Lauren Price eases past Natasha Jonas to become unified welterweight champion

The 30-year-old Price dominated her 40-year-old opponent with a 98-93 100-90 98-92 score.

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2 d. ago Lauren Price takes torch and world titles from Natasha Jonas as new era dawns

The Olympic champion added Jonas’s WBC and IBF belts to her own WBA title, capping off an all-women’s card in London

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2 d. ago Lauren Price dominates Natasha Jonas to become unified WBC, IBF and WBA welterweight world champion

Lauren Price dominated Natasha Jonas from first round to last to become the unified WBC, IBF and WBA welterweight world champion at the Royal Albert Hall.

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2 d. ago Lauren Price scores dominant victory over Natasha Jonas to become unified welterweight champion

The Welsh superstar dominated from start-to-finish as the 30-year-old made history at the Royal Albert Hall in London against the British boxing veteran

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2 d. ago Lauren Price beats Natasha Jonas in women’s welterweight unification bout – live reaction

Jonas and Price meet to unify WBC, IBF, WBA 147lb titlesDubois retains WBC 135lb on points in co-feature boutBluesky Bryan at @BryanAGraham or email himCaroline Dubois has made her way to the ring for tonight’s chief support bout. Our ringside correspondent checks in:The extremely shallow pool of premium talent in women’s boxing is hard to ignore but such nights can only help attract prospective new fighters. As the Albert Hall fills to around 80% of its capacity it feels important to remember that women’s boxing was still banned in Britain in 1998.I also think British boxing has a clear future star. Caroline Dubois is the most gifted young female fighter in this country and the atmosphere is really starting to build as she prepares to showcase her vast potential against Bo Mi Re Shen, the supposedly tough and resilient South Korean. Continue reading...

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3 d. ago Natasha Jonas v Lauren Price: women’s welterweight title unification – live buildup

Jonas and Price meet to unify WBC, IBF, WBA 147lb titlesCaroline Dubois defends her WBC 135lb title in co-featureMain event expected to start around 10pm GMT/5pm ETBluesky Bryan at @BryanAGraham or email himTonight marks the first night of boxing in four years at the Royal Albert Hall and only the fifth since 1999. But BoxRec’s exhaustive annals show the 154-year-old concert hall on the northern edge of South Kensington has a surprisingly rich fistic history, with at least 470 cards staged here down the years going back to 1918 – exactly one month after the end of the first world war.Speaking of the great man, McRae wrote a piece for Sunday’s Observer on his latest book, The Last Bell: Life, Death and Boxing, out next week and published by Simon and Schuster.When I was a boy, living in South Africa, I fell for Muhammad Ali. As graceful as he was provocative, Ali amazed me with his uncanny ability, despite apartheid, to entrance black and white South Africans. He made us laugh and da...

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4 d. ago ‘It shows how far we’ve come’: how women’s boxing powered its way to the Royal Albert Hall

Lauren Price, Natasha Jonas and Cindy Ngamba believe groundbreaking all-female bill offers the sport the chance to set aside its problems and show pride in its progress“It’s maddening and sad to think that, not so long ago, women were banned from being fighters,” says Lauren Price as she prepares to face Natasha Jonas in a fascinating world welterweight title unification bout that headlines Friday’s all-female bill at the Royal Albert Hall. But, first, the Olympic gold medallist and world champion pauses to remember those who preceded her.In August 1998, the British Boxing Board of Control were taken to court by Jane Couch, a professional fighter who had been forced abroad because women’s boxing was banned in her country. Bernard Buckley, the board’s solicitor, told the judge that “many women suffer from premenstrual tension which makes them more emotional, labile and accident-prone. They are too fragile to box and bruise easily.” Continue reading...

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