Natasha Jonas and Lauren Worth collide in a significant world title unification on Friday March 7.
They struggle for Jonas’ IBF and WBC welterweight titles and Worth’s WBA championship on the Royal Albert Corridor, dwell on Sky Sports activities.
This all-British showdown is a key second for each Jonas and Worth of their respective careers.
Victory may also put the unified champion on target for an undisputed conflict with the Mikaela Mayer vs Sandy Ryan winner. Mayer places the WBO 147lb world title on the road in opposition to Britain’s Ryan later this month.
“I’ll hold three world titles. I’ll beat Jonas. Who’s next? Mayer? Sandy? Anyone. I beat everyone at 147lb,” declared Worth on the brand new episode of Behind The Ropes, obtainable now on Sky Sports activities.
“I can be one of the greatest-ever female boxers to come out of not just Britain, but the world.”
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Jonas and Worth exchanged heated phrases after each had been victorious in Liverpool in December
Jonas could also be 40 years previous and has already been a two-weight unified world champion, however she has no intention of letting Worth finish her profession on March 7.
“That’s what she says,” Jonas mentioned on Behind The Ropes. “There is still a hunger and a desire and a motivation that burns inside me.
“You retain transferring the goal to see for those who can nonetheless get it. And to this point I have never missed.”
She wants to be remembered as “the lady who by no means gave up. The lady who saved going. The lady who bought there in the long run”.
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Worth confirmed she was a category above Bexcy Mateus and detonated a giant left hand to finish the struggle
‘Undisputed must be subsequent’
BOXXER promoter Ben Shalom believes the Jonas-Worth and Mayer-Ryan victors should struggle one another to turn into the undisputed welterweight world champion.
“I think it has to be,” Shalom advised Sky Sports activities. “There’s one belt on the other side. So I think the winner of Sandy and Mikaela is going to be queuing up and the winner of this is going to want to clean out the whole division.
“For me [it’s] one of the best division in girls’s boxing proper now, a whole lot of fighters in and across the weight as properly. There are some nice, nice fights, there will be some nice, nice defences for Natasha and Lauren, whoever comes via.
“For me this is the two best in the division, it really is. I think Natasha’s proven that now over the past couple of years and Lauren Price is just a phenomenal talent. I’m really excited.”
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After their world title unification struggle on the Royal Albert Corridor was introduced, Worth mentioned she was ‘over the moon’ that she’s going to lastly be capable of tackle Jonas within the ring
Watch Natasha Jonas struggle Lauren Worth on the Royal Albert Corridor dwell on Sky Sports activities on Friday March 7.
