Natasha Jonas, the IBF welterweight world champion, will combat WBC world titlist Ivana Habazin in an enormous hometown unification showdown on Saturday December 14 on the Exhibition Centre in Liverpool, stay on Sky Sports activities.
After defending her belt earlier this 12 months towards America’s Mikaela Mayer, who went on to win the WBO welterweight belt, Jonas is trying to change into a unified world champion in her second weight division towards WBC champion Habazin.
Victory for Jonas might additionally put her on target for a collision with Olympic gold medallist and now WBA welterweight titlist Lauren Value in an all-British world championship unification.
Jonas will prime this December 14 invoice in her hometown of Liverpool in her sixth consecutive world title contest.
Final trip in January Jonas edged a cut up determination victory in an epic back-and-forth battle with Mayer, a former unified champion herself, on the M&S Financial institution Enviornment in Liverpool.
Undefeated since boxing Katie Taylor at 135lbs in 2021, the 40-year-old from Toxteth will now look to cement her place on the prime of the welterweight division, having beforehand unified the WBC, WBO and IBF world championships at super-welter.
Jonas mentioned: “I am excited to be again with one other huge world title combat at dwelling in Liverpool. To get the prospect to win one other world title and to unify the IBF and WBC world titles goes to be particular. Ivana Habazin is a superb champion. She has received a number of world titles and fought among the finest on the planet. I am anticipating a tricky combat however I’m able to show that I am the primary within the division.
“With the backing of my dwelling followers, there’s no approach I can lose.”
Habazin is the present WBC world champion having outpointed Kinga Magyar to seize the vacant inexperienced and gold belt in April of this 12 months.
The 35-year-old from Zagreb, Croatia, who has shared the ring with among the biggest feminine fighters of the fashionable period together with Cecilia Brækhus and Claressa Shields, has beforehand held the IBF world welterweight title.
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Highlights from an enormous IBF welterweight title conflict between Natasha Jonas and Mikaela Mayer in Liverpool.
She mentioned: “It will be an honour for me to unify the WBC and IBF world welterweight titles. I previously held the IBF world title and I look forward to winning the belt again. I have a lot of respect for Natasha. She has been a great champion throughout her career. She is one of the outstanding female fighters in the sport today and beating her will give me the recognition that I have long deserved.
“I’ve visited Liverpool a number of instances and it is my favorite metropolis within the UK, so I am very excited to be preventing in her hometown. Whereas it might be winter in Liverpool on December 14, I imagine Natasha and I’ll convey some a lot wanted warmth and Christmas cheer to these inside the sector. I simply hope the judging will probably be honest and Santa would not come to present Natasha an early Christmas current.”
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After retaining her IBF welterweight title towards Mikaela Mayer, Natasha Jonas felt her opponent introduced the most effective out of her in what was a massively entertaining predominant occasion in Liverpool.
BOXXER founder and CEO Ben Shalom mentioned: “Natasha Jonas is back in her hometown for a huge world title unification showdown. It’s champion vs champion as Natasha goes toe-to-toe with WBC world title holder Ivana Habazin.
“This can be a must-win combat for Natasha as she seems to be to cement her legacy as one of many biggest feminine fighters of her technology.
“A win on December 14 can set up more career-defining fights for Natasha including a massive all-British world title unification showdown with Lauren Price early next year to determine who is No 1 in the welterweight division.”
