
Natasha Jonas bids Liverpool farewell with a win, likely date vs Lauren Price
Natasha Jonas defeated Ivana Habazin on Saturday to unify the WBC and IBF welterweight titles and set up a unification fight with Lauren Price next year.
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Natasha Jonas defeated Ivana Habazin on Saturday to unify the WBC and IBF welterweight titles and set up a unification fight with Lauren Price next year.

LIVERPOOL - Natasha Jonas defeated Ivana Habazin to unify the WBC and IBF welterweight titles and set up a unification fight with Lauren Price next year.

Natasha Jonas is hoping that victory this Saturday against Ivana Habazin at the Exhibition Center in Liverpool could put her back on course to fight longtime rival Katie Taylor in her final bout

Lauren Price may be on a collision course with British rival Natasha Jonas, but the WBA welterweight titleholder has some business to attend to before she can focus fully on a fight with her fellow Olympian.

Liverpool’s Natasha Jonas, the current IBF welterweight world champion, will defend her belt against WBC belt-holder Ivana Habazin in a unification showdown on Saturday December 14 at the Exhibition Centre in Liverpool, England.

The latest news from Per-Ake Persson about the European boxing scene.

Ivana Habazin landed a home game in a bid to become a two-time titlist and create history in the process. A location has been secured for Habazin’s challenge of Jessica McCaskill’s lineal, WBC and WBA welterweight championship class. The WBC-ordered mandatory title fight will take place April 20 at KC Drazen Petrovic, named after the late, great NBA star, in Zagreb, Croatia.

The team surrounding Ivana Habazin secured the rights to her mandatory title challenge for the second time this year. Charles Muniz, Habazin’s manager, once again won a purse bid hearing for the WBC-ordered title fight between Habazin and defending lineal, WBC and WBA champion Jessica McCaskill. Piranha 1 LLC company, Muniz’s privately owned company, submitted $82,500 as the lone bidder during Friday’s session conducted from WBC headquarters in Mexico City.

Two sanctioning bodies have provided a roadblock to a Jessica McCaskill-Sandy Ryan rematch. Rulings from the WBC and WBO have called for the pair of welterweight titlists to next enter mandatory title defenses in lieu of a second unification match. Confirmation was provided in the WBO’s ruling on a protest filed by Matchroom

Terri Harper found a way to turn a negative into a positive. The two-division and reigning WBA junior middleweight titlist successfully turned away the challenge of former welterweight titleholder Ivana Habazin to earn a ten-round, unanimous decision. Harper won by scores of 98-92, 97-93 and 97-93 in their DAZN-aired title fight Saturday evening from AO Arena in Manchester, England.