{"id":27938,"date":"2026-04-07T02:03:33","date_gmt":"2026-04-07T02:03:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/boxing-lauren-price-set-for-two-fight-deal-with-claressa-shields\/"},"modified":"2026-04-07T02:03:33","modified_gmt":"2026-04-07T02:03:33","slug":"boxing-lauren-price-set-for-two-fight-deal-with-claressa-shields","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/boxing-lauren-price-set-for-two-fight-deal-with-claressa-shields\/","title":{"rendered":"Boxing: Lauren Price set for two-fight deal with Claressa Shields"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\"><b class=\"ssrcss-1xjjfut-BoldText e5tfeyi3\">Lauren Price is expected to return to action this summer before signing a two-fight deal to face fellow Olympic champion Claressa Shields, according to promoter Ben Shalom.<\/b><\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Price, 31, maintained her unbeaten professional record with a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/sport\/boxing\/articles\/ckg9eyykkeyo\" class=\"ssrcss-18834jl-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\">unanimous points victory over Stephanie Pineiro<\/a> in Cardiff on Saturday night.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">She is next set to face an as yet unnamed opponent in August, potentially in the Welsh capital, before a blockbuster double-header with Shields &#8211; who was ringside for Price&#8217;s bout with Pineiro at Utilita Arena.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Asked when the duo could face off, Shalom told <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/sounds\/play\/m002tl7y\" class=\"ssrcss-18834jl-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\">BBC Radio Wales Breakfast:<\/a> &#8220;Once in the US, and then hopefully once where we can come to either Cardiff City Stadium or (Cardiff) castle and do that in June next year.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;She&#8217;s selling out that (Utilita) arena too fast. She needs somewhere bigger.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/sport\/boxing\/articles\/cx24xnldl7ro?at_medium=RSS&#038;at_campaign=rss\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lauren Price is expected to return to action this summer before signing a two-fight deal to face fellow Olympic champion Claressa Shields, according to promoter Ben Shalom. Price, 31, maintained her unbeaten professional record with a unanimous points victory over Stephanie Pineiro in Cardiff on Saturday night. She is next set to face an as [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":27939,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-27938","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\/27938","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=27938"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27938\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27940,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27938\/revisions\/27940"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/27939"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27938"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27938"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27938"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}