Natasha Jonas has declared that she nonetheless “needs the large fights” and is raring for a mammoth rematch with Katie Taylor.
Jonas was comprehensively crushed by Lauren Value by way of a large unanimous choice in March, a combat which noticed her lose the IBF and WBC welterweight belts, with many individuals casting doubt on her future following the Royal Albert Corridor conflict.
Nonetheless, she instructed Sky Sports activities there may be nonetheless extra to return in her illustrious profession.
“I am not too positive,” she stated of her future. “There’s nothing official but.
“I will sit again and wait on a number of outcomes, see how they go.
“Clearly, I nonetheless need massive names and large fights. So, we’ll see how that pans out.
“I do not wish to come again only for any outdated combat. I nonetheless need the most important fights and the large nights and that is principally it.
“If I can not get them fights, then that’ll be my flip.”
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Highlights of the WBC, IBF and WBA welterweight world title combat between Natasha Jonas and Lauren Value.
Talking at a good to launch the World Boxing Championships 2025, which happen in Liverpool from September 4-14, Jonas revealed Katie Taylor stays her goal.
The pair fought in an eye catching battle in 2021 with Taylor edging Jonas out on the judges’ scorecards.
Taylor additionally acquired the higher of the Liverpudlian within the newbie ranks once they clashed in a memorable quarter-final on the 2012 Olympics in London.
In July, Taylor may have a trilogy combat with Amanda Serrano, however Jonas has not misplaced hope of one other chapter in her personal rivalry with the Irish legend.
“I’ve at all times stated Katie Taylor,” Jonas replied when requested concerning the one massive combat she needs to occur.
Eubank-Benn: ‘The suitable particular person received’
The 40-year-old was a part of the Sky Sports activities punditry staff for the combat between Chris Eubank Jr and Conor Benn final Saturday, which main-evented a historic night time of boxing on the Tottenham Hotspur Stadium.
Eubank would go on to defeat his rival by way of unanimous choice, and Jonas mirrored on a dramatic north London night time.
“The combat was good and it is at all times a fear while you’ve constructed a combat up and there is been a lot vitality within the press conferences, whether or not it may stay as much as that expectations, however it 100 per cent did and extra,” Jonas stated.
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The Sky Sports activities Boxing staff reacted to Chris Eubank Sr making a shocking shock look, as he arrived together with his son on the Tottenham Hotspur Stadium they usually made an emotional ringwalk collectively.
“I believe the second for me was when Eubank Jr and Sr stepped out of the automobile collectively. Me, Johnny [Nelson] and Adam [Booth], all of us acquired choked up.
“We did not actually know what to do.”
Jonas believes Eubank was a deserving victor over Benn. “I in all probability would have given it to Eubank by possibly two rounds, however each spherical was aggressive, each spherical was hard-fought,” she stated.
“I believe Conor gained much more followers from that efficiency, so typically a loss is not at all times the worst factor. He can return down [to welterweight or] there might be a possible rematch.
“I believe it was slightly bit nearer than the scores advised, however I believed the correct particular person received.”
Watch Naoya Inoue’s undisputed title defence in opposition to Ramon Cardenas stay on Sky Sports activities from 1am on Monday morning.
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