
British rivals Natasha Jonas and Lauren Value meet in a three-belt world title unification on Friday March 7, headlining a significant all girls’s card on the Royal Albert Corridor stay on Sky Sports activities. Here is what you should know…
When is Jonas-Value and the place to observe it?
Natasha Jonas and Lauren Value meet of their a lot anticipated conflict on Friday March 7.
The British rivals each got here by way of their very own world title fights in December to arrange this conflict.
They meet within the headline occasion on a significant all girls’s card that may be watched stay on Sky Sports activities Primary Occasion and Sky Sports activities Motion from 7pm.
Primary occasion ring walks are anticipated at round 10pm.
What are they preventing for?
Natasha Jonas unified the WBC and IBF welterweight world titles when she beat Ivana Habazin in her final combat. She is going to put each of these championships on the road in opposition to Value, whose WBA 147lb world title can be at stake.
Though Value is an Olympic gold medallist and already knowledgeable world champion, she is barely at an early stage of her professional profession. For her, Jonas represents the chance to catapult herself to a brand new stage and take a key step in direction of her dream of preventing for the undisputed world title.
In distinction Jonas at 40 years previous is coming in direction of the top of her skilled profession. However she is seeking to improve her legacy, decide up one other signature victory and win but extra world titles.
The place are they preventing?
They field on the Royal Albert Corridor on Friday on what is ready to be a historic event.
In recent times boxing playing cards have been few and much between on the Albert Corridor however it’s an august venue within the sport.
Boxing was first held there in 1918 and a number of the biggest fighters within the historical past of the game have competed there, together with Georges Carpentier, Muhammad Ali and Henry Cooper. (Infamous London gangsters, the Kray twins additionally boxed there.)
Within the Nineteen Nineties Marco Antonio Barrera, Naseem Hamed, Lennox Lewis and Frank Bruno all boxed there, as did Ricky Hatton (who shall be in Chloe Watson’s nook on Friday) early in his profession.
Who else is on the cardboard?
On the eve of Worldwide Girls’s Day, the invoice on Friday March 7 is a significant all girls’s boxing card.
The chief help shall be Caroline Dubois placing her WBC light-weight world title on the road in opposition to No 1 contender, South Korea’s aggressive Bo Mi Re Shin.
Olympic bronze medallist Karriss Artingstall fights world title challenger and beginner rival Raven Chapman for the primary British girls’s featherweight title.
Chloe Watson, who’s skilled by Ricky Hatton and went to the identical college as her inspiration Natasha Jonas, makes a European title defence in opposition to Jasmina Zapotoczna.
Cindy Ngamba makes her skilled debut in opposition to Kirstie Bavington. Ngamba turned the primary member of the refugee crew to win an Olympic medal when she secured middleweight bronze at Paris 2024.
Bavington although, who received the European welterweight title in her final combat, shall be a great opponent for a primary professional contest.
The complete televised card is as follows:
- Natasha Jonas vs Lauren Value (WBC, IBF and WBA welterweight world titles)
- Caroline Dubois vs Bo Mi Re Shin (WBC light-weight world title)
- Karriss Artingstall vs Raven Chapman (British featherweight title)
- Chloe Watson vs Jasmina Zapotoczna (European flyweight title)
- Cindy Ngamba vs Kirstie Bavington
What they are saying?
Lauren Value stated: “After I turned skilled after turning into Olympic champion, I wished to create greatness. This combat, an enormous all-British unification conflict, Wales vs England with three world titles on the road, will assist cement my legacy and present that I’m No 1 within the division.
“I consider I am too younger, too fast and too good for Natasha Jonas and I shall be bringing the belts again residence to Wales with me.”
Natasha Jonas stated: “Lauren Value has a whole lot of hype round her however I consider this combat goes to be a step too far for her. I have been in huge fights, I’ve fought world champions and Olympic medallists, however she’s by no means confronted anybody like me as a professional.
“She retains on saying these items. However you are placing strain on your self to again it up.”
What could possibly be subsequent for the Jonas-Value winner?
Each have spoken of their want to change into the undisputed world champion.
The winner of Jonas-Value will maintain three of the 4 main world titles at welterweight. The fourth, the WBO championship, is held by America’s Mikaela Mayer, who was edged out by Jonas on a slender resolution early in 2024.
Mayer is preventing afterward this month. On March 30 in Las Vegas she rematches Britain’s Sandy Ryan, one other bitter rival.
The winner of Mayer-Ryan can be a pure combat to make for the Jonas-Value victor.
Watch Natasha Jonas combat Lauren Value on the Royal Albert Corridor stay on Sky Sports activities on Friday March 7.