Boxxer are planning to match Natasha Jonas and Lauren Worth in an all-female invoice in London in March to guide a wider try to prioritise rebuilding girls’s boxing within the UK.
The 40-year-old Jonas retained her IBF welterweight title and dethroned Croatia’s Ivana Habazin because the WBC champion with victory in Liverpool on Saturday – when Worth, 30, retained her WBA title whereas changing into the primary to defeat Bexcy Mateus of Colombia.
A combat for all three titles was already on target earlier than they entered the ring that evening, and Ben Shalom’s Boxxer, the organisation that oversaw Claressa Shields-Savannah Marshall on the prime of a well-liked all-female invoice in 2022, hopes to characteristic them on the identical card because the WBC light-weight champion Caroline Dubois and doubtlessly Francesca Hennessy.
The Saudi Arabian affect on boxing has contributed to the home combat scene within the UK, and ladies’s boxing globally, changing into uncared for, however Shalom informed BoxingScene: “We’re one thing very particular. Girls’s boxing, in the event you have a look at 2022, 2023, was the shining star of British boxing. Everybody was speaking about, ‘Why can’t the boys be extra like the ladies?’. Males’s boxing’s had a renaissance with Riyadh Season, however girls’s boxing, aside from [Katie] Taylor-[Amanda] Serrano this 12 months, hasn’t had the identical.
“So we’re a giant girls’s evening in early March, in London, at a really prestigious venue that normally doesn’t host boxing, and it’s going to be one thing very particular. In a perfect world, the winners [Jonas and Price] will probably be on the cardboard.
“Sky Sports activities are massively, massively enthusiastic about girls’s sport, and that’s the place we’re going to see probably the most success [in 2025]. There’s an enormous duty at Boxxer to ensure girls’s boxing will get again to the place it was and the place we helped to get it to. The plans that I can see going into subsequent 12 months, round Lauren, round Caroline, round Fran – even speak of Savannah Marshall coming again for her rematch – and Natasha Jonas. There’s going to be some large nights.
“We wish girls’s boxing to be again on the entrance pages; on the again pages; and we expect our girls’s evening, with Lauren and Caroline and even Fran coming by – there’s some significantly good expertise there that may be the subsequent Savannah Marshall, Katie Taylor and Natasha Jonas that we’ve had a lot success from.”
The proficient Dubois makes the primary defence of her title towards Canada’s Jessica Camara on January 11, and requested she may have sufficient time to organize for a date in March, Shalom replied: “We wish the Terri Harper combat that we expect is smart – a unification. That’s the combat that we wish; we’ve already put large provides in for that combat, and it’s the most important cash that Terri Harper may hope to earn for any combat, so fingers crossed that will get carried out.”
