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BBC News
12-05-2025
- Sport
- BBC News
Price wants Tom Jones backing in homecoming fight
Wales' unified world champion Lauren Price is back in camp preparing for a potential homecoming fight in August – and hopes Tom Jones will be there to sing her into the will return to action for the first time since beating Natasha Jonas to add the WBC and IBF welterweight world titles to her WBA crown in 30-year-old does not know yet who she will fight next, but says a meeting with WBO champion Mikaela Mayer is likely to happen late this the moment, Price's focus is on a return to Cardiff – where she beat Jessica McCaskill to claim her first world title last May – and a link-up with Welsh pop icon Jones."I hear he is in Wales in August so I have got my PR team on to him," Price told BBC Sport Wales. "I know they have spoken to his son so I am hoping [he will be there] to sing me out."I love Tom. I have seen him a couple of times. He is a Welsh legend. To walk out to one of his songs would be a dream come true. I'd let him decide which one." 'Massive fights out there' Price says it would be "great to come home and have my own fans behind me" following her eye-catching triumph over England's Jonas at London's Albert Hall, when she was booed during her 2020 Olympic champion believes a meeting with American Mayer would be "a massive fight not just for women's boxing, but for world boxing in general".In the short-term, however, it seems Price's sights will be set elsewhere."There are massive fights out there for me. I am kind of the one who has the belts now," she added."There is one more to get - maybe that fight against Mayer won't happen next."But whoever is there in front of me, I will be 100% prepared and I will be keeping those belts in Wales." Price's dominant triumph over Jonas came in just her ninth professional her successes to date, Wales' first female world champion expects her performance levels to improve."For me, I never stop learning," Price said."Each fight you have seen me stepping up, getting better and better and there is much more to come."
South Wales Argus
21-04-2025
- Entertainment
- South Wales Argus
World champion boxer Lauren Price announces engagement
The 30-year-old from Ystrad Mynach, who became the unified welterweight champion last month, announced the news on social media. Carlie Jones shared her excitement in a post on Instagram on Easter Sunday, saying: "So many amazing moments led to the biggest, and easiest yes, when my favourite person asked me to marry her. "My best friend, my soul mate... there's not a day where you don't make me laugh and smile, I really do feel like the lucky one by finding my forever person. "Through every bit of laughter and happiness, challenges and all the quiet moments in between, we have found something so rare, real and special. "I can't wait to spend the rest of my life with my best friend." Lauren Price, who was born in Newport and grew up in Bargoed, is a former amateur boxer, and former kickboxer and footballer. She has held the unified WBA, WBC, IBF, IBO, and female welterweight titles since March 7, 2025. She was the first-ever female British professional boxing champion, having won the welterweight title on May 6, 2023, and holding it until vacating the belt when she became world champion. While representing Wales in the amateur sport, she won a bronze medal at the 2014 Commonwealth Games, becoming the first Welsh woman to win a Commonwealth Games boxing medal. Four years later, she surpassed this achievement by winning gold at the 2018 Commonwealth Games, followed by a gold at the 2019 World Championships. Lauren was also a profession footballer and played for Cardiff City and the Welsh National team.
Yahoo
18-03-2025
- Sport
- Yahoo
Samuel Adams American Light Debuts Nationwide, Helping Fans Upgrade Their Beer and Lock In Their Seat for Tip-Off
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Washington Post
08-03-2025
- Sport
- Washington Post
Boxing rising star Lauren Price dreams of 'selling out stadiums' like Katie Taylor
LONDON — Lauren Price is following the Katie Taylor blueprint to boxing success. The Welsh welterweight outclassed Natasha Jonas on Friday night at Royal Albert Hall to retain her WBA title and pick up the WBC and IBF belts.
BBC News
08-03-2025
- Sport
- BBC News
Opportunity knocks – women's boxing can take centre stage
The iconic Royal Albert Hall has hosted pugilism for over a century, welcomed key political figures and showcased musical Friday evening, a women's bout headlined the regal venue for the first time. About 4,000 fans witnessed Lauren Price dominate trailblazer Natasha Jonas in the main event of an all-female the chief support, Caroline Dubois outpointed Bo Mi Re Shin in an entertaining battle. The self-assured world champion has the potential to make waves – in the ring and commercially - for years to Artingsall became British champion by beating Raven Chapman in a featherweight contest that shows a gradual deepening of the depth of women's boxing, which has historically been the surface, the event - a day before International Women's Day - was a success and provides a launchpad for women's boxing in Britain to we have been here world champion Hannah Rankin feels women's boxing failed to capitalise on the momentum created by Savannah Marshall v Claressa Shields in October 2022, when an all-women card packed out the O2 Arena."There was a real opportunity there but when big-time boxing moved to Saudi Arabia, it slowed down the progression and whole trajectory of women's boxing," she Arabia continues to host high-profile men's bouts as women's boxing has generally been trilogy between Irishwoman Katie Taylor and Amanda Serrano in New York, which will broadcast on Netflix in June, will help grow the sport globally, but what can be done to make the female sphere take centre stage in the United Kingdom? I'm not a fan of all-female cards - Rankin Pioneer of women's boxing Jane Couch, TV presenter Stacey Dooley and several female athletes packed out the majestic Kensington Shields-Marshall card, albeit nearly two-and-a-half years ago, reportedly reached a pick audience of one million viewers."This might be controversial, but I'm just not a fan [of all-female cards] and I never have been," Scotland's Rankin feels mixed-gender cards rather than segregating the two codes will attract more interest."I think if promoters are smart, they will start pushing women from where they're from," Rankin has competed in Wales just once in nine pro bouts while London's highly talented IBF super-bantamweight champion Ellie Scotney's past two bouts have taken place on undercards in Manchester and Nottingham."Can Ellie be given an opportunity to sell out a smaller venue in London?" adds Rankin."If women aren't getting the opportunities in Saudi, then let us be the champions at home and bring the crowds at home to watch."They might say they're not big ticket sellers but how do you become a big ticket seller if people from your area can't come and see you?" Onus on fighters to self-promote better Shields – the self-proclaimed 'Greatest Woman of All Time' - played up to the American villain role against Marshall in a fight which stemmed from an amateur was no such animosity between Jonas and Price in a relatively subdued fight week. "Boxing is 50% talent and 50% entertainment," Rankin says."Female fighters have to take some ownership and start promoting themselves."Go work in your community, be active on social media, speak up in press conferences – however you want to sell yourself."Londoner Dubois is one of a few female fighters beginning to showcase the art of self-promotion, though."How audacious that she thinks she can beat me?", Dubois said at Wednesday's news conference, despite South Korean Shin saying nothing to prompt such an impassioned is a "breath of fresh air", according to Rankin, and the 25-year-old appears to understand the importance of putting on a show - even if it might be to her detriment. In the final round against Shin, Dubois took unnecessary risks and heavy hits in a bid to entertain her home crowd. British title fights, three-minute rounds & UFC's White British title fights are a mainstay in the men's code, producing countless classics including Anthony Joshua's showdown with Dillian Whyte in they were only introduced in women's boxing in 2023, when Price beat Kirstie Bavington to become the inaugural champion."The British title can create more domestic dust-ups before we get onto the world level," Rankin says."For men, it's revered in every gym. Every guy would talk about winning the British title and it just isolated us a little bit."The conversation on whether female's should adopt three-minute rounds like their male counterparts is one which splits while those format changes may come with time, the future of women's boxing rests on the ever-evolving boxing president Dana White has teamed up with Saudi organisers to create a new boxing league, which Rankin hopes can benefit female is clearly work to be done, yet it simply cannot be ignored that women's boxing was banned until 1998 in the United Kingdom and 2001 in it has been less than a decade since Taylor's pro debut took it into the be where we are today – an all-female card at a venue steeped in boxing history with thousands in attendance – is cause for celebration.
