{"id":7112,"date":"2024-11-20T17:30:37","date_gmt":"2024-11-20T17:30:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/lauren-price-to-make-first-world-title-defence-against-bexcy-mateus\/"},"modified":"2024-11-20T17:30:37","modified_gmt":"2024-11-20T17:30:37","slug":"lauren-price-to-make-first-world-title-defence-against-bexcy-mateus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/lauren-price-to-make-first-world-title-defence-against-bexcy-mateus\/","title":{"rendered":"Lauren Price to make first world title defence against Bexcy Mateus"},"content":{"rendered":"


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Lauren Price will defend her welterweight world titles for the first time against Bexcy Mateus on 14 December.<\/b><\/p>\n

Welsh fighter Price, 30, will face the unbeaten 29-year-old Colombian contender at Liverpool’s Exhibition Centre for the IBO, WBA and Ring Magazine belts.<\/p>\n

Mateus has six knockouts in seven wins, while Olympic champion Price has one stoppage in her unblemished seven-fight professional career.<\/p>\n

“I’m excited to be out defending my belts to finish what has been a big year for me,” Price said.<\/p>\n

“I have full respect for Mateus. I’ll prove I’m the best in the division and I won’t let anything, or anyone stand in my way of becoming undisputed.”<\/p>\n

On the same bill, another of the stacked division’s stars, 40-year-old Liverpudlian Natasha Jonas, will bid to unify the IBF and WBC titles against Croat Ivana Habazin, 35.<\/p>\n

If Jones and Price win, an all-British unification bout beckons.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n


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Lauren Price will defend her welterweight world titles for the first time against Bexcy Mateus on 14 December. Welsh fighter Price, 30, will face the unbeaten 29-year-old Colombian contender at Liverpool’s Exhibition Centre for the IBO, WBA and Ring Magazine belts. Mateus has six knockouts in seven wins, while Olympic champion Price has one stoppage […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":7113,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7112","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\/7112","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=7112"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7112\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7114,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7112\/revisions\/7114"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7113"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7112"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7112"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7112"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}