Lauren Price: record, next fight and profile →
Olympic champion Lauren Price won’t have many easier tasks in her career than the one she faced against Hungary’s Timea Belik, whose almost complete lack of defence made her incredibly easy to hit, as she completed a fourth-round stoppage on the Shields-Marshall bill at the O2 Arena, London.
A pair of world championship grudge matches will move forward with a rescheduled date. The previously scheduled September 10 all-female card at The O2 in London will now take place at the same venue October 15, BOXXER formally announced Tuesday. Headlining the show, three-division and reigning WBA/WBC/IBF middleweight champ Claressa Shields and WBO titlist Savannah Marshall collide for the undisputed middleweight crown. The co-main event pits Mikaela Mayer and Alycia Baumgardner in a mouthwatering showdown for the lineal/WBC/IBF/WBO/IBO junior lightweight championship.
Frazer Clarke will enjoy a quick ring return. BOXXER has confirmed the addition of Clarke to its already announced September 3 show at M&S Bank Arena in Liverpool, England. An opponent was not yet named for the 31-year-old heavyweight, who returns to the ring just five weeks after his last outing.
The full undercard has been revealed for the already announced September 10 blockbuster show on Sky Sports from The O2 in London. The supporting cast includes 2020 Olympic Gold medalist Lauren Price, 2020 Olympic Bronze medalist Karriss Artingstall and Caroline Dubois—all of whom fought for Great Britain last summer in Tokyo—as well 2020 U.S. Olympian Ginny Fuchs.
Lauren Price made a straightforward professional debut as the Olympic middleweight gold medallist from the Tokyo Games boxed rings around Iceland’s Valgerdur Gudstensdottir at Wembley.
Lauren Price and Karriss Artingstall both believe they can be in contention for world titles within 18 months after the Olympic golden couple announcing they will be turning professional with BOXXER and Sky Sports.
Lauren Price will turn professional later this year. The 27-year-old won middleweight gold at the Olympics in Tokyo, becoming the first Welsh fighter to claim a boxing gold medal.
Likely opponents are thin enough on the ground already for Savannah Marshall that you might have thought Lauren Price claiming the middleweight gold medal at the Tokyo Olympics could set up a potential rivalry. Marshall, though, thinks that although Prices holds a victory over her from amateur days, a return is unlikely to happen for the foreseeable future.
Olympic gold medallist Lauren Price says she might not turn professional despite being approached by Eddie Hearn to turn over after her success in Tokyo. Price won the middleweight gold on the final day of the Games adding to the gold medal won by Galal Yafai at flyweight as Great Britain won six medals overall, the best return since 1920.
Lauren Price was tasked with avenging a past amateur defeat in order to win out the women’s middleweight division. The number-one seed rose to the occasion, earning a three-round unanimous decision over China’s Li Qian to provide Great Britain with its second Gold medal in the Toyko Olympics. Scores were 30-27 on four cards and 29-28 on the fifth, all in favor of Price in their middleweight final Sunday afternoon at Kokugikan Arena.