{"id":419522,"date":"2026-01-19T16:07:07","date_gmt":"2026-01-19T16:07:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/419522\/"},"modified":"2026-01-19T16:07:07","modified_gmt":"2026-01-19T16:07:07","slug":"lauren-price-world-welterweight-champion-says-she-will-fight-in-cardiff-in-april","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/419522\/","title":{"rendered":"Lauren Price: World welterweight champion says she will fight in Cardiff in April"},"content":{"rendered":"

Price had said in the aftermath of her victory against Jonas that she expected to become an undisputed champion by the end of the year.<\/p>\n

She was in attendance in Las Vegas as Mikaela Mayer outpointed Briton Sandy Ryan<\/a> for the second time to defend the American’s WBO welterweight title.<\/p>\n

However, despite hopes that the Boxxer-promoted fighter would be back in the ring by August it now appears she will face a gap of 13 months between fights.<\/p>\n

“I am back sparring and have had a great week of training. I am ready to crack on and put on a good show for my fans,” said Price, who is unbeaten in nine fights since turning professional.<\/p>\n

“It’s all been signed off and I can finally move on with concentrating on training, leaving no stone unturned so that I am ready for 4 April.”<\/p>\n

There has been no official announcement for a show at the 7,500-capacity Utilita Arena, but the British Boxing Board of Control have posted notice of a bout between Welshman Rhys Edwards and Birmingham’s Gulraj Powar for their vacant featherweight title in Cardiff on Saturday, 4 April.<\/p>\n

The fight will be promoted by Ben Shalom, the founder and CEO of Boxxer.<\/p>\n

Price, who also won gold at the 2018 Commonwealth Games and played international football for Wales, has always said being Welsh is a key part of her success. <\/p>\n

“I want the big fights, I want momentum and I love fighting in Wales,” she added. <\/p>\n

“In talks I got offered Albert Hall again, it’s a fantastic venue, but I want to fight in Wales with Welsh up and coming talent on the card.<\/p>\n

“The dream is to sell out stadiums and follow the likes of Joe Calzaghe, and that starts by boxing at home.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Price had said in the aftermath of her victory against Jonas that she expected to become an undisputed…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":419523,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[447],"tags":[703,49,48,82],"class_list":["post-419522","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-boxing","tag-boxing","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/419522","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=419522"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/419522\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/419523"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=419522"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=419522"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=419522"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}