Lauren Price title defense added to Liverpool show

Source: Boxxer

21/11/2024

Lauren Price title defense added to Liverpool show

As previously announced, IBF welterweight champion Natasha Jonas will headline in her hometown of Liverpool, England against WBC champion Ivana Habazin in a unification clash. The bout's promoter, Boxxer, has announced that a Jonas victory on December 14th puts her on a collision course with WBA champion Lauren Price in what would be a ‘Battle of Britain’ unification match. Price has now been added to the Dec. 14th show against unbeaten Colombian Bexcy Mateus. All the action is available to watch live and exclusively on Sky Sports in the UK and Ireland and on Peacock in the USA.
 
Jonas (15-2-1, 9 KOs) will top the bill in her hometown of Liverpool in her sixth straight world title contest under the Boxxer promotional banner.  Habazin (23-6, 7 KOs) became the WBC champion by outpointing Kinga Magyar to capture the vacant belt in April. The 35-year old from Zagreb, Croatia, who has shared the ring with some of the greatest female fighters of the modern era including Cecilia Braekhus and Claressa Shields, has previously held the IBF welterweight Title and is also a former IBO middleweight champion. 
 
Price (7-0, 1 KO) defends her WBA and IBO titles against unbeaten Colombian Bexcy Mateus. Mateus (7-0, 6 KOs) is a 29-year old from Bogota, and wil be fighting outside of her native Colombia for the first time.
 
ADDITIONAL BOUTS
 
Irish junior middleweight Stephen McKenna (15-0, 14 KOs) will go toe-to-toe with English champion Lee Cutler (14-1, 7 KOs)...
 
Also scheduled to appear will be English Cruiserweight Champion Viddal Riley (11-0, 6 KOs) who has recovered from a rib injury that has kept him out of the ring since a career best win over Mikael Lawal in March... 
 
Chorley super middleweight Mark Jeffers (18-0, 5 KOs), 
 
Cheshire junior middleweight Mason Cartwright (20-4-1, 8 KOs) and local lightweight Frankie Stringer (8-0, 1 KO) are all awaiting opponents to be added to the show.