A bloodied Lauren Price dug deep to beat Stephanie Pineiro on points to retain her welterweight world titles in Cardiff before calling for a future fight with Claressa Shields.<\/p>\n
The 31-year-old picked up a terrible cut after a clash of heads in the fifth round against the previously unbeaten Puerto Rican.<\/p>\n
Price rallied to fight to the final bell and was rewarded with a unanimous decision on the scorecards.<\/p>\n
After the fight, American Shields – who has held 15 world title belts across five weight divisions – stepped into the ring to face off with Price.<\/p>\n
“I want the biggest fights in boxing, and what a great honour it would be to share the ring with Shields,” said Price.<\/p>\n
“It makes for a great fight, but not just one fight. I said to her tonight, ‘Let’s do it, I’ll come to America and then you come to Wales,’ and she shook on it. So hopefully we can make that happen.<\/p>\n
“It is why I’m in the game, I want to fight the best. Credit to Shields – I respect her – but I back myself!”<\/p>\n
Shields said the location of any fight would have to be discussed but hinted at a meeting between the two stars at the end of 2026 and said the bout would be at middleweight.<\/p>\n
“When you are an Olympic champion you are a special fighter,” said Shields.<\/p>\n
“Me and you have talked online and me and you can make it happen, you did great tonight.<\/p>\n
“No disrespect to you, you’ve got a little bit of time. I’ve got one more fight and then we can fight at the end of the year.”<\/p>\n
Price has spoken often about staging a future fight at either the 33,000-seat Cardiff City Stadium or Principality Stadium, which can hold almost 80,000 fans.<\/p>\n
In Shields, Price could face the calibre of opponent who would merit such a step up in venue.<\/p>\n
Shields, also 31, currently holds the IBF, WBC, WBF and WBO heavyweight world titles and has a professional fighting record of 18-0.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A bloodied Lauren Price dug deep to beat Stephanie Pineiro on points to retain her welterweight world titles…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":513611,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[49,50,51,47,52,48],"class_list":{"0":"post-513610","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-headlines","8":"tag-headlines","9":"tag-news","10":"tag-top-news","11":"tag-top-stories","12":"tag-topnews","13":"tag-topstories"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/513610","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=513610"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/513610\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/513611"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=513610"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=513610"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=513610"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}