After defeating Bexcy Mateus in a thrilling boxing match, WBA welterweight champion Lauren Price says she wants to bring professional boxing back to Wales.
The 30-year-old athlete earned her second stoppage victory in her unbeaten eight-fight professional career in her first championship defence. Now, Price is expected to battle against Natasha Jonas, the IBF and WBC champion, in the main event.
Price said: “I believe I am the best at 147lbs… Fight by fight I keep learning, I have so much more to come… I want to bring big-time boxing back to Wales.”
Price had previously fought in Wales, defeating Jessica McCaskill in May 2024 to win the title of world champion for the first time. Despite the fact that her next match with Jonas might happen outside of Wales, she has stated that she wants to battle her fellow Brit.
The athlete declared: “For the British fans I would love to fight Tash… It’s one hell of a fight for British fans and boxing in general.”
She added: “In this pro game you have to call the shots. If you’re a world champion and you have titles you should fight anyone… I have a few years in me but next year I want to be chasing belts. I want to be an undisputed world champion.”
Regarding the outcome of the upcoming fight, Price remarked: “I’m in my prime, she’s coming towards the end of her career… I respect that, but I believe I win that fight.”
“If it was down to me, we would have been fighting here tonight… But she [Jonas] doesn’t want the fight, I get it,” she said.
Professional Boxing matches refer to a combat-oriented fight between two individuals who fight in a closed ring, the match will end if either of the participants gets knocked out or if a is a limited round match when all the round ends. For Fitness there are different weight classes and all matches will have a referee to point out foul-play if any. The winner is either decided by the decision by judged points or if the individual knocks out the opponent.
Boxing is one of the most thrilling sports a person can watch. The matches are divided into many weight classes as per the fighter’s weight so it is very difficult to determine who is the best. But here are the top 10 best female boxers in the world as of right now
1. Claressa Shield
Full name Claressa Marie Shields is a professional boxer based in American born on 17th March 1995 in Flint, Michigan, United States. Her career as a professional boxer started in the year 2016.
She fought in multiple weight classes which are Light Middle Weight, Middle Weight, Super Middle Weight, and Light Weight category, and won the World Championship title in all categories except in the middleweight. She was also was recognized as the world’s best light middleweight fighter in November 2020. She is also has a record for holding the title of world champion in Pless amount of matches.
She has a total history of 11 matches in her professional boxing career as of now which she never lost a single one of them. The upcoming match will mark the 12 matches of her boxing career in which she will be defending all of her previously earned titles.
2. Katie Taylor
Full mane Katie Tylor is a professional boxed based in Ireland. She was born on 2nd July 1986 in Bray, County, Ireland. She started her career in the Boxing Association that is fought her first boxing match in 2016.
She participate in Lightweight and Light-welterweight category boxing, She won the WBA lightweight champion in 2017, she also IBF champion title in 2018, she also won the title for WBC, WBO, and WBO jr. welterweight in 2019. She has been the undisputed champion of the titles ever since she won them.
She played a total of 20 matches and never lost any of them within which 6 were won by Knock-out and the remaining by decision. She also holds 18 golds and 1 bronze under Women’s Amateur Boxing from 2006 to 2013.
3. Marina Juarez
Full Name Maria Anastasia Trejo is a professional boxer Based in Mexico. She was born on 29 January 1980 in Mexico. Her career in boxed started in 1998 in Mexico City, Mexico.
She use to hold the title of WBC female flyweight champion in the year 2011 and 2012 but lost her title of champion to Ava Knight in Oct 2012 in the defending title match. She also held the title of WBC female bantamweight category champion from the year 2017 to 2020 until she was defeated by Yulihan Luna in Oct 2020. She also holds the record of the world’s second-most active female bantamweight boxer.
Till 2021 she fought and participate in 68 matches in her career, she won 54 times- 18 by knock-out and 36 by decision and lost only 10 times- knocked 3 times and by decision 7 times. No upcoming match has been reported.
4. Cecilia Braekhus
Full name Cecilia Carmen Linda Braekhus is a Norwegian-based former professional Kick-boxer and currently one of the best professional boxers. She was born on 28 September 1981 in Cartagena, Colombo. Her boxing career started in 2007 against Ksenija Koprek in Switzerland.
Braekhus is one of the only 10 people to hold the World Boxing Association, World Boxing Council, International Boxing Federation, and World Boxing Organisation championship title. She fights in the boxing welterweight category. In 2004 she won a silver medal and in 2005 she won a gold and silver medal in the Female World Amature Boxing championship.
Since the start of her pro boxing career, she has never lost a match except for the last two matches she played against Jessica McCaskill, she fought a total of 38 played and won 36 of them.
5. Jessica Maccaskill
Full name Jessica Macaskill is an American-based professional boxer, she was born on September 8 1984 in St. Louis, Missouri, United States. She started her career in August 2015.
She fights in multiple class category which include Lightweight, Light Welterweight, and Welterweight. She holds the title of World Boxing Council female super lightweight champion in 2018-2020, The International Boxing Federation champion since 2020, and became the undisputed champion in both leagues. she was also regarded as the world’s best active female welterweight.
In her professional boxing career, she has only fought a total of 13 matches and won 11 of them, 4 by knockouts and 7 by decision, and lost two by decision.
6. Amanda Serrano
She was born on 9th October 1988 in Carolina, Puerto Rico. She debuted in professional boxing in March 2009 against Jackie Trivillino. she is the only female to hold championship titles in more than four weight classes which were also recorded in the Guinness World Record.
she fought matches in multiple weight classes which include Super Flyweight, Bantamweight, super bantamweight, featherweight, Super featherweight, Lightweight, and Light Welterweight category. She is a World Boxing Organisation featherweight champion since 2019, World Boxing Council champion since 2021, International Boxing Federation super featherweight champion in 2011, WBO lightweight champion in 2014, WBO female bantamweight champion in 2017, WBO light welterweight champion in 2018.
In her professional boxing career, she fought a total of 44 matches in much different weight classes in which she has only lost once against Frida Wallberg in 2012 and had a draw once in her early career in 2009 against Ela Nunez.
7. Delfine Persoon
She was born on 14th January 1985 in Gits, West Flander, Belgium. Her career as a pro boxer started in May 2008 against Jana Latova by winning the match.
She fights in Super Featherweight and Lightweight category weight class. She won the International Boxing Federation lightweight champion in 2012, she also held the title of World Boxing Council lightweight champion from 2014 till June 2019. In 2020 she was recognized as the world’s best active female super featherweight and second-best active female in Lightweight.
She has fought a total of 48 matches in her entire career as of right now in Dec 2021 and only lost 3 matches out of them.
8. Christian Hammer
Born on 16 August 1990 in Nowodolinka, Kazakh SSR, Soviet Union. She is a German-based professional boxer her career debut on September 2009 against Melisa Koktar.
She fights in Light-middleweight, Middleweight, and Super-middleweight category, she has held WBO female middleweight champion title from 2010 to 2019, WBO female super middleweight in 2013, the WBC middleweight champion title from 2016 to 2018. Recognized as the world’s best active female middleweight.
In her whole pro boxing career sh had fought 28 matches and only lost once against Claressa Shields in 2019 and drawn once against Anne Sophie Mathis in 2014.
9. Daniela Bermudez
Full name Daniela Romina Bermudez, born on 7 July 1989 in Villa Gobernador Galvez, Santa Fe Province, Argentina, is an Argentine professional boxer who debut in 2010 against Roxana Virginia Baron.
she fought in multiple weight classes Light-flyweight, Flyweight, Super-flyweight, Bantamweight, Super-bantamweight, and Featherweight. She held the title of WBO female Bantamweight champion title in 2013, WBO super-flyweight champion in Jan 2014, WBO female flyweight champion in April 2014.
In her pro boxing career of 36 matches, she won 29 of them and lost 4 and 3 Draws.
10. Yesica Bopp
Full name Yesica Yoland Bopp, born on 11 April 1984 in Wilde, Buenos Aires, Argentina, she started her career as a professional Argentine boxer on Jan 2008 against Soledad Macedo.
She fights in the Light flyweight and Flyweight category weight class, sho held the Super WBA light-flyweight champion title since 2020, the Regular WBA light flyweight champion title from 2008-2019, WBO female light flyweight champion from 2009 till 2013, and WBO flyweight champion title 2014.
In her career of 39 matches, she won 37 of them and 2 losses first in 2013 against Jessica Chavez and nest in 2021 against Juliana Vanesa Basualdo.
Anthony Joshua hopes to defeat Francis Ngannou and make his ‘statement’
British heavyweight Anthony Joshua declared that he hopes to make a statement by defeating the former mixed martial arts champion, Francis Ngannou. The 34-year-old is trying to establish himself as one of the top contenders in the heavyweight division after losing his WBA, IBF, WBO, and IBO belts to Oleksandr Usyk of Ukraine back in 2021. He has now won his last three fights.
In an interview with Sky Sports, Joshua confidently stated: “I believe I can knock him out.”
Anthony Joshua ready for war
In another statement, Joshua admitted that he would like to take Ngannou out and leave a lasting impression.
“Physically I feel strong, feeling good. Strong enough to get the job done and mentally I’m in a place where I’m ready for war. I’m looking forward to the challenge,” Joshua said.
On the other hand, Ngannou gave up his heavyweight title in the UFC due to a contract disagreement with the promotion organization and went on to become a free agent in January 2023. In October 2023, the 37-year-old made his debut in professional boxing against Tyson Fury. The thrilling match ended with a split decision.
Meanwhile, despite being on the brink of defeat at the hands of Ngannou, Tyson Fury doesn’t think he is a very good boxer. The WBC heavyweight champion was dropped by Ngannou in the third round of their ‘Battle of the Baddest’ fight in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia last October.
Fury doesn’t think he stands much of a chance of beating his long-time rival, Joshua.
“I’m expecting AJ to win, for sure. He’s a boxer, isn’t he? A former two-time world champion,” Fury said during an interview with IFL TV.
In a thrilling event, Molly Caudery won the women’s pole vault title at the Glasgow World Athletics Indoor Champions, making her a qualified competitor for a medal in the upcoming 2024 Paris Olympics.
After obtaining the gold medal, Molly admitted that she just couldn’t believe what had happened, and said, “It was such a special moment to do it in front of a home crowd, family watching and everyone from all over the nation supporting too.”
Caudery Aiming for the Olympic glory
Caudery is now working hard to aim for Olympic success this summer. With his performance at the Commonwealth Arena, the 23-year-old athlete maintained her amazing form that has established world records–winning against Olympic champions Katie Moon and Eliza McCartney for her first world medal.
With her gold medal, Caudrey secured her place as the next remarkable athlete in British athletics and is now a favorite to lift an Olympic medal.
Her performance in Glasgow has vanquished any doubts and reservations about her capabilities to compete at the Olympics. However, she kept herself grounded and said that the key to any future success is to resist giving in too much to the excitement.
“I have got such a great support team around me and they are never going to let my head get too big or anything like that… I am just so grateful to be where I am, that will keep me grounded too and never take anything for granted,” she declared.
Tyson Fury, the WBC heavyweight champion, acknowledges that he was persuaded to return to boxing after becoming miserable while taking a few months off to rest and relax.
After taking a two-year break from the sport in the wake of shocking Wladimir Klitschko in 2015, he started to feel the same emotions that had overcome him.
A more recent photo of Tyson Fury, from Wikipedia.
Following his knockout victory over Dillian Whyte in April, Fury declared his retirement from competition.
However, a few months later, the unbeaten boxer was already discussing possible matches with Anthony Joshua and Oleksandr Usyk. On December 3 at Tottenham Hotspur Stadium, Fury is slated to make a voluntary defense against Derek Chisora in a three-round bout.
Tyson Fury’s remarks
“I genuinely intended to retire after defeating Dillian Whyte in April, and I firmly believe that I have never been more certain in my life.
“Since I was writing my third book and producing a song for the World Cup while I was out of the ring for a few months, I was quite busy. However, I simply felt that without boxing, my life no longer had any meaning,” said Fury
“I’ve never felt so far behind 2015, 2016, or 2017 as I did during the four months I was retired. However, I had returned to that period in my life when things were terribly bleak and dull and there was no turning around for me. I’m not returning to box for a belt. In addition, I box because I want to make more money, win another five or twenty-five matches, or unite the division (my mental state).
“And without it, (my mental condition) is rapidly deteriorating, and I don’t know any other way to keep it sane,” the speaker continued. This is my heartfelt, brutally honest statement. I am not sure how to stop.
Fury thinks an uncontested match with Usyk can be made once he defeats Chisora.
Usyk now retains the WBO, IBF, IBO, and WBA titles after regaining the titles in August by defeating Joshua again by decision.
Because I don’t look past anything and you can’t count your chickens before they hatch, Fury added, “If Usyk can be made and they truly want the fight, then we’ll do that fight next assuming I win and everything goes properly.
Ultimate Fighting Championship is a professional sports contest amongst all the boxers. This is an American mixed martial arts sport. The organization is situated in Las Vegas, Nevada. UFC is the largest MMA company which consists of the highest-ranking fighters in the world. It was introduced in the year 1993. So here we have the Top 5 UFC Female Boxers in the World Right Now 2022.
As we know that UFC is a professional boxing tournament, and there are rankings that are given to the players by the media members. The procedure of ranking was introduced in the year 2013 when the media members are asked to vote according to their preference of players by weight class.
Top 5 UFC Female Boxers in the World Right Now 2022
According to the sources and the rankings given by the members, we have listed out the top 5 female boxers across the world right now. So have a look at it and know their stats.
Zhang Weili is a Strawweight champion and Chinese mixed martial artist. She was born in the year 1989, 32 years of age, and participated in the UFC women’s contest. She had also competed in the Kunlun Championship, where she won her first title against Simone Duarte in the Kunlun Female Fight MMA 11th edition Strawweight championship in May 2017, and her second title, in August 2017.
She ranks at number 5 amongst UFC Women’s pound-for-pound rankings. She is the first Chinese Champion in UFC history. Her record is 21-3-0. Meanwhile, she is prepping for her next match, UFC 275 Joanna Jedrzejczyk.
4. Julianna Pena
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Juliana Nicole Pena is a 32-year-old American professional MMA fighter. She competes in the UFC under the bantamweight division. She is the first woman to win The Ultimate Fighter in 2013. She is the current rank holder of the UFC Women’s Bantamweight Champion. She is placed at the 4th position of the UFC Women’s pound-for-pound rankings.
Juliana is not just a boxer but she also works as an actress, where she was featured in her own MMA documentary Fight Life which was released in th year 2013 and it also won an award.
3. Rose Namajunas
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Rose Namajunas who was born in the year 1992, is a 29-year-old American martial artist is the 3rd ranked UFC woman. She had competed in the UFC leagues, under the Strawweight category, adding to this she has won the title of UFC strawweight champion of the world twice. Here the record is 11-4, with a winning streak of 3. Her next match is going to be UFC 274 Carla Esparza.
Rose is known especially for her speed and reflexes. She takes the advantage of kinetic energy which makes the opponent stumped by her quick jabs and kick boxes.
2. Amanda Nunes
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Amanda Nunes is a mixed martial artist from the country of Brazil. She participates in the UFC league, and currently holds the second rank in the UFC Women pound-for-pound rankings. She is the current holder of the featherweight championship. She is the first woman to be a UFC champion in two different divisions. She is a former winner of the bantamweight championship.
She is a well-known fighter as she was the first and only fighter who defends two UFC titles. The record of her matches is 21–5.
1. Valentina Shevchenko
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At the first rank, we have the current holder of the title of UFC Women’s Champion. She is a 34 year, Kyrgyzstani-Peruvian professional MMA fighter. She competed in the Flyweight division. She is known for her absolute counterpunch and counterattacks. She has complete knowledge of the distance of her opponents in the attacks which she analyses quickly.
She also has a special trick to block the opponent’s punches, which is a spinning wheel kick or the spinning back fist, her record is 22-3. With a winning streak of 8, her next match is going to be against UFC 275 Taila Santos.
