Lauren Price and Natasha Jonas will fight each other in a mouth-watering world title unification bout on 7 March 2025 at the Royal Albert Hall in London.
The British rivals both successfully retained their welterweight world titles with wins in Liverpool last weekend.
Wales’ Price, 30, defended her WBA title against Bexcy Mateus, dropping the Colombian three times before the referee stopped the contest in the third round.
IBF champion Jonas, 40, added the WBC title, outclassing Ivana Habazin over 10 rounds to become a two-weight unified champion.
The winner between Price and Jonas would then likely target WBO champion Mikaela Mayer in a fight to become the undisputed world welterweight champion.
About 4,000 people were at the Exhibition Centre to watch Saturday’s fight card, but a meeting between two of British boxing’s brightest and best female fighters is sure to pack out the Royal Albert Hall which can host more than 5,000 fight fans.
Price has already stated a meeting in the ring with Jonas is overdue, saying she would have preferred to fight her now arch-rival last weekend rather than Mateus.
“If it was down to me I would have loved to have been boxing for another belt, whether it was against Tasha [Jonas] or Ivana [Habazin],” said Price, who won Olympic gold in 2021 in the delayed Games in Tokyo before turning pro.
“But that didn’t happen this time round, so now I’ve got through that fight on Saturday the big fight is next year.”
Jonas has won 16 and lost two of 19 career fights – including nine wins by knockout – while Price has won all eight contests, with two KOs, since the former Wales f
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