By Steve Bunce I SAT with two Olympic dreamers 10 days before the first bell in Paris. It was Callum Smith and Tasha Jonas, and the venue was an outdoor bar in Liverpool’s Baltic Triangle. They had the same dreams at the same time, and they had been dreaming of boxing at the Olympics since … Read more
THE RESULT: Benefitting perhaps from being at home, the popular Natasha Jonas retained her IBF welterweight title with a 10-round split decision over Mikaela Mayer tonight (January 20) in Liverpool. A fight full of frenetic exchanges and shifts in momentum, Jonas started well, struggled somewhat in the middle rounds, and then came on strong again … Read more
Content by Declan Taylor BOXXER is starting their 2024 schedule with a return to Liverpool for a highly anticipated showdown between Natasha Jonas and American Mikaela Mayer at the city’s M&S Bank Arena. After a frustrating 2023, Jonas is ready to make amends in 2024 and faces Mayer in a welterweight encounter for her IBF … Read more
By Elliot Worsell WHILE it is easy for some to pander or distract with hyperbole, the popularity of women’s boxing was always going to be decided by headline fights rather than the histrionics of the men who make money from them. Forget the noise, and forget the success stories of one or two, what matters … Read more
Natasha Jonas speaks to Boxing News about facing Mikaela Mayer in January, how a fighter combats anxiousness, her reasons for obtaining a manager’s licence, and her exit strategy BN: What does the fight against Mikaela Mayer mean to you and how big is it for your career? NJ: There’s no next fight if I don’t … Read more
THE ETERNAL cry is that we need boxing stories to go with the fights. Let me tell you about a weekend, an ordinary weekend in our boxing calendar. It fell between the excesses of the Misfits in Manchester, with their devoted flock, and the wonders of this weekend in Saudi. Hey, Tyson Fury might just … Read more
THE ETERNAL cry is that we need boxing stories to go with the fights. Let me tell you about a weekend, an ordinary weekend in our boxing calendar. It fell between the excesses of the Misfits in Manchester, with their devoted flock, and the wonders of this weekend in Saudi. Hey, Tyson Fury might just … Read more
