Natasha Jonas hoped to be enjoying retirement by now, but instead she goes into a world title unification fight on Saturday with unfinished business.
Jonas delivered a career-best performance against Mikaela Mayer in January and declared afterwards that 2024 ‘”is probably my last year in boxing.”
However, the 40-year-old mum-of-one has not fought since earning a split decision over Mayer, leading Jonas to revise her plans and continue into 2025.
IBF welterweight champion Jonas (15-2-1, 9 KOs) first faces WBC champion Ivana Habazin in a world title unification fight in her home city at the Exhibition Centre, Liverpool, England.
Providing Jonas defeats Habazin (23-6, 7 KOs), 35, from Zagreb, Croatia, she will progress to face British rival Lauren Price in another title unification fight.
Olympic gold medalist Price (7-0, 1 KO), 30, from Ystrad Mynach in Wales, makes a first defence of her WBA belt against Bexcy Mateus (7-0, 6 KOs), of Colombia, after winning her first world title fight against former undisputed world champion Jessica McCaskill in May.
“If I got the fights I wanted last year I would be retired by now,” Jonas told…
