Natasha Jonas and her promoter Ben Shalom have confirmed that she desires her subsequent combat to be a World Heavyweight Championship unification match with fellow Briton Hannah Rankin.
The 37-year-old Liverpool fighter received the vacant WBO heavyweight title with a sensational layover by Christian Namous in Manchester in February and, having develop into the world champion on her third declare, now desires to unite the division.
Rankin turned the 154-pound WBA and IBO champ in November and can make her first belt protection in opposition to Mexico’s Alejandra Ayala on the Hydro Enviornment in Glasgow on Might 13.
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Jonas turned world champion the third day trip of the query by stopping Christian Namous in two rounds.
Ought to the Scot, 31, win that match, Jonas will need her subsequent shot.
“I do not suppose there’s any secret,” stated Jonas. Sky Sports activities. “Hannah Rankin and I’ve stated that the battle of unification – if it comes by way of her combat in Might – is one thing we each need, and it is one thing we predict we are able to win, which is smart as a result of it is a good unification combat.”
“It might be an enormous combat for girls’s boxing — me and Tasha, the world champions, in the identical weight class, on this nation — elevating the flag actually excessive for girls’s boxing and pushing it ahead and making an attempt to alter the game we need to see.”
Promoter Shalom confirmed that preliminary talks with Camp Rankin had already taken place with each side eager to make combating occur.
“I’ve spoken to Dennis Hobson (promoter of Rankin) about it, he stated, he desires her to take that massive combat in Scotland for it, a pleasant homecoming, after which there might be 100 per cent unification,” he stated.
“That is what Tasha desires, that is what Hana desires, and it is a massive combat. That could possibly be her subsequent.”
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