For now, Price must be fully focused on Saturday’s title defence against Pineiro.<\/p>\n
The 35-year-old is undefeated as a professional, with 10 wins under her belt – all in her home country of Puerto Rico.<\/p>\n
Pineiro’s camp have been adamant she will shock the Cardiff crowd.<\/p>\n
“She’s strong, she’s tough. She’s going to throw the kitchen sink at me from round one,” Price said.<\/p>\n
“I do believe that I’m a level above. I think I’ve boxed better opposition than her before, but it’s all about Saturday night.<\/p>\n
“I just want to go and put on a good performance in front of the fans.”<\/p>\n
Pineiro cut a relaxed figure in front of the media.<\/p>\n
And the 5ft 9in southpaw said she is ready to draw on the experience of being the pantomime villain.<\/p>\n
“I’m excited, I want to hear the boos – that will be energy for me,” Pineiro said.<\/p>\n
Although a mouth-watering fight with Shields may lie in weight, Shalom was quick to warn of Pineiro’s threat.<\/p>\n
“Lauren has to prove herself against Pineiro – who is a phenomenal fighter,” said Shalom. <\/p>\n
“It’s hard to look past that, but what lies beyond it is possibly one of the biggest fights in women’s boxing.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"For now, Price must be fully focused on Saturday’s title defence against Pineiro. The 35-year-old is undefeated as…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":510372,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[2560,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-510371","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-boxing","tag-boxing","tag-sports","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/510371","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=510371"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/510371\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/510372"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=510371"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=510371"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=510371"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}