Women's boxing will enjoy its latest milestone as we get the fight we wanted

Women's boxing volition bask different milestone successful March erstwhile it takes centre signifier astatine the Royal Albert Hall with Natasha Jonas yet taking connected Lauren Price aft overmuch anticipation

March 7 is different milestone for women’s boxing, a archetypal all-female measure astatine the Royal Albert Hall topped by Natasha Jonas versus Lauren Price, and each going up connected the eve of International Women’s Day 2025.

Not lone is it a important infinitesimal successful the vocation of some it is the champion pistillate paper since the archetypal all-girl formed 3 years agone erstwhile Clarissa Shields met Savannah Marshall, which remains the astir watched women’s sports lawsuit connected Sky.

The welterweight unification bout is simply a passing of the baton infinitesimal with seasoned WBC and IBF champion Jonas yet taking connected Welsh improvement Price, holder of the WBA and IBO belts.

The brace person seemingly been arrowing towards each different since Price won Olympic golden successful Japan. Price, a superb footballer too, is simply a sporting prodigy. Jonas has got amended with age.

Women’s boxing couldn’t person amended ambassadors and determination is immoderate superior firepower connected the undercard, including Olympic bronze medallist Karriss Artingstall and our ain Caroline Dubois successful the 2nd defence of her WBC lightweight crown.

After past week’s method gully against Jessica Kamara, Dubois is looking guardant to a much rewarding night. It is frankly ridiculous that she should person a gully connected her paper aft a one-sided pummelling. Dubois dropped her successful the archetypal and bushed her up successful the second. It was relentless. Right astatine the doorbell their heads clashed and Kamara sustained a cut.

Instead of the getting the triumph it is ruled a gully due to the fact that 4 rounds had not elapsed. There was nary mode she was going to spell past 4 rounds. She would not person got done the third, yet she has a gully against Dubois connected her record. It conscionable doesn’t look fair.

At slightest Dubois proved however large she is for her sport. Women’s boxing needs it stars, and she is explosive. Our different pistillate satellite champion, Ellie Scotney defends her IBF and WBO super-bantamweight titles against undefeated Kiwi Mea Motu astatine the Motorpoint Arena successful Nottingham connected Saturday.

It’s a fantastic accidental to boost her estimation arsenic she looks to permission her ain stamp connected the sport. Scotney is simply a superb small fighter, and works truthful hard to get seen successful a engaged satellite of sport. She is smart, comic and ace talented.

Motu is pugnacious and experienced having clocked up doubly arsenic galore bouts Down Under. This is her archetypal outing successful Europe, and lone the 2nd extracurricular the Antipodes. Scotney knows however important nights similar this are for her vocation and can’t hold to measurement retired nether the lights and beryllium however bully she is.

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