Lauren Value will make the primary defence of her WBA welterweight world championship towards Bexcy Mateus on December 14, dwell on Sky Sports activities.
They are going to battle on the invoice topped by Natasha Jonas’ IBF and WBC welterweight title unification towards Ivana Habazin.
If Value and Jonas each emerge victorious from their respective fights, they might set themselves heading in the right direction for an all-British unification conflict in 2025.
Earlier this yr Value beat former undisputed champion Jessica McCaskill to win the WBA crown. An Olympic gold medallist in 2021, Value was nearly punch excellent when she dethroned McCaskill in entrance of her house followers in Cardiff in Might.
The primary Welsh boxer to win Olympic gold, Value wrote her identify within the document books once more by turning into Wales’ first feminine world champion in simply her seventh skilled battle.
The 30-year-old from Ystrad Mynach is but to lose a spherical as knowledgeable and is setting her sights on this primary defence, and in the end welterweight supremacy.
Mateus, the WBA’s No 5 ranked contender at welterweight, is undefeated within the skilled ranks too, having gained all however one in every of her seven fights by knockout.
The 29-year-old from Bogota is preventing exterior of her native Colombia for the primary time as she goals to upset Value.
The WBA champion mentioned: “I’m excited to be out defending my belts to complete what has been a giant yr for me. I’ve full respect for Mateus. I’ll show I’m the perfect within the division and I gained’t let something, or anybody, stand in my approach of turning into undisputed.”
The Natasha Jonas vs Ivana Habazin world title unification tops the December 14 invoice
BOXXER Founder and CEO Ben Shalom mentioned: “It’s an enormous evening for the ladies’s welterweight division with three world champions in motion. Natasha Jonas is again in her hometown for a must-win unification battle towards Ivana Habazin and Lauren Value defends her world titles towards unbeaten contender Bexcy Mateus. The battle for undisputed is on.
“If Natasha and Lauren each win on December 14, it would set the stage for an enormous ‘Battle Of Britain’ world title unification match up subsequent yr.”
On the undercard Eire’s undefeated Stephen McKenna will go toe-to-toe with English champion Lee Cutler in a mouth-watering super-welterweight bout.
McKenna wowed followers with a three-round warfare towards Joe Legal guidelines final day trip at Oakwell Stadium in Barnsley in August. Each males hit the canvas within the first spherical earlier than McKenna piled on the strain, dropping Legal guidelines three extra occasions to take care of his unbeaten document by way of stoppage.
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Lauren Value claimed the WBA world title after beating Jessica McCaskill on factors and says it’s the begin of many extra large nights in Cardiff
English cruiserweight champion Viddal Riley returns to motion having recovered from an damage that has saved him out of the ring since a career-best victory over Mikael Lawal in March. Riley shall be aiming to shake off the ring rust as he targets large identify opponents within the new yr.
Unbeaten Chorley super-middleweight Mark Jeffers scored an explosive fifth-round knockout win over Darren Johnstone in Might and shall be seeking to carry extra drama to Liverpool’s Exhibition Centre as he goes in the hunt for his nineteenth skilled win.
Tremendous-welterweight Mason Cartwright, a former two-time British title challenger from Ellesmere Port, shall be relying on native assist as he will get again on the title path.
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Highlights from an enormous IBF welterweight title conflict between Natasha Jonas and Mikaela Mayer in Liverpool
Having signed a promotional take care of BOXXER, native star Frankie Stringer can declare his third victory of 2024 when he returns in entrance of his house followers in Liverpool. The 23-year-old light-weight, who’s managed by former world champion Liam Smith, is a product of town’s famend Rotunda ABC, the beginner membership which introduced by means of Jonas and lots of extra.
