Natasha Jonas is set to beat Lauren Value after which combat for an undisputed world championship subsequent.
However Jonas would take that undisputed combat at welter or super-lightweight, and will have a longtime rival at both weight.
Liverpool’s Jonas, the unified WBC and IBF welterweight champion, fights WBA world titlist Value this Friday, reside on Sky Sports activities.
The fourth world title at welterweight, the WBO belt, is held by Mikaela Mayer, whom Jonas edged out on a good resolution final yr.
Mayer bins Britain’s Sandy Ryan later this month and the winner of that combat can be a pure opponent for the Jonas-Value victor.
However Katie Taylor, whom Jonas boxed within the 2012 Olympic Video games and later in knowledgeable world title combat, is the undisputed world champion at super-lightweight.
Jonas would transfer down in weight for a Taylor combat. She informed Sky Sports activities‘ Off Limits: “I feel the combat that is private is Katie. Beat Lauren and whoever comes subsequent – Mayer and Ryan are combating, whoever wins that combat, that is for undisputed for us then.
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Natasha Jonas and Lauren Value share their boxing journeys and the way they’ve fought to world title stage forward of their big bout on Friday March 7, reside on Sky Sports activities.
“Or go and fight Katie for undisputed. The two options are undisputed after that fight. Then that’s pretty much me [done]. But I’ve got to get past Lauren first.”
Joe Gallagher, who trains Jonas, is assured the Liverpudlian will certainly get previous Value, regardless that the Welsh world champion is a gifted Olympic gold medallist.
“If you look at what Lauren brings to the table, if you look at her background and pedigree and the fighters she’s fought, and the tools that she brings to the table, her catalogue of punches,” Gallagher informed Sky Sports activities.
“And then you look at Natasha Jonas and the people that she’s been in with and her catalogue of punches and shot selection – you [think] everyone’s getting caught up in the hype here a little bit.”
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Forward of her blockbuster all-British World Title combat towards Lauren Value, Natasha Jonas listens to phrases of encouragement from these closest to her.
He insists this combat is not going to be Jonas ‘passing the torch’ to Value. “That’s not the case. We’re not going away quietly. We’ve been in this position before, like with Terri Harper and we’ve come back,” Gallagher mentioned. “There’s no pressure on Natasha, it’s all on Lauren.
“Right here we’re 2025 and he or she’s placing herself on the frontline once more,” he continued. “Lauren’s going to deliver the perfect out of Natasha once more. Lauren does issues that we really feel we are able to capitalise on.
“It gets real,” he warned Value.
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Natasha Jonas and Lauren Value shared a frosty face-off on the press convention for his or her world title unification at Royal Albert Corridor on Friday March 7.
Regardless that Jonas has been a unified world champion at super-welterweight in addition to welterweight, Gallagher factors out that she will be able to transfer down one other weight class. “Her real true fighting weight is either 135 or 140lbs,” he mentioned of the Liverpool star.
“So what she’s done and what she’s achieved is unbelievable.”
Watch Natasha Jonas combat Lauren Value on the Royal Albert Corridor reside on Sky Sports activities on Friday March 7.
