{"id":11639,"date":"2025-03-09T02:05:44","date_gmt":"2025-03-09T02:05:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/lauren-price-eyes-bout-in-wales-versus-mikaela-mayer-or-sandy-ryan\/"},"modified":"2025-03-09T02:05:44","modified_gmt":"2025-03-09T02:05:44","slug":"lauren-price-eyes-bout-in-wales-versus-mikaela-mayer-or-sandy-ryan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/lauren-price-eyes-bout-in-wales-versus-mikaela-mayer-or-sandy-ryan\/","title":{"rendered":"Lauren Price eyes bout in Wales versus Mikaela Mayer or Sandy Ryan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">WBO welterweight champion Mayer <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/MikaelaMayer1\/status\/1898190328089424276\" class=\"ssrcss-k8mrr8-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\">wrote on social media<span class=\"visually-hidden ssrcss-1f39n02-VisuallyHidden e16en2lz0\">, <!-- -->external<\/span><\/a> after the all-female card in London that she expects to fight Price this year.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Mayer congratulated both Price and Jonas &#8220;for the rumble&#8221;, adding: &#8220;All the fights on the card were highly entertaining and it was a total WIN for women&#8217;s boxing!<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;I got a job to do March 29 but I fully expect to be sharing the ring with Price later this year.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Double Olympic champion Claressa Shields also congratulated Price on her victory over Liverpool&#8217;s Jonas and hinted she could share the ring with the Welshwoman at the higher weight of 154lb.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">That is a 7lb increase on the limit for Price&#8217;s bout with Jonas.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;I thought every judge should&#8217;ve had it 90-100! Price was super dominant! Congrats girl,&#8221; <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/Claressashields\/status\/1898151050852409389\" class=\"ssrcss-k8mrr8-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\">Shields wrote on X.<span class=\"visually-hidden ssrcss-1f39n02-VisuallyHidden e16en2lz0\">, <!-- -->external<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">When asked if she would consider fighting Price, Shields added: &#8220;She&#8217;s too green, my skills are too much for her. But hey 154, I think we can see it.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Price was mesmerising in her victory over Jonas, winning emphatically 98-93, 100-90 and 98-92 on the judges&#8217; scorecards.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The 2020 Olympic champion feels her attributes will take her to the top of the professional ranks.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;I&#8217;ll remember this night for the rest of my life,&#8221; she said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;Tasha&#8217;s a great fighter, but I knew my speed and my feet, that&#8217;s what won me the Olympic gold medal and I feel it&#8217;s going to get me to the top in the pros.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;It started with [Jessica] McCaskill in May and I just feel like I&#8217;m getting better and better.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;I&#8217;ll speak to [promoter] Ben [Shalom] and I want to go back to Wales, there&#8217;s nothing\u00a0quite like boxing at home, but this was very special and I&#8217;ll remember it for the rest of my life.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Her display against Jonas earned widespread praise, with former super featherweight world champion Barry Jones stating Price was &#8220;punch perfect&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Boxing pundit Steve Bunce told the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/sounds\/play\/p0kwxg79?partner=uk.co.bbc&amp;origin=share-mobile\" class=\"ssrcss-k8mrr8-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\">5 Live Boxing with Steve Bunce<\/a> podcast: &#8220;Lauren Price showed and proved that she might just be the face of women&#8217;s boxing going forward.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/sport\/olympics\/articles\/ce8m6rmz3g4o\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WBO welterweight champion Mayer wrote on social media, external after the all-female card in London that she expects to fight Price this year. Mayer congratulated both Price and Jonas &#8220;for the rumble&#8221;, adding: &#8220;All the fights on the card were highly entertaining and it was a total WIN for women&#8217;s boxing! &#8220;I got a job [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":11640,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11639","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-boxing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11639","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11639"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11639\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11641,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11639\/revisions\/11641"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11640"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11639"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11639"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11639"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}