{"id":516253,"date":"2026-04-06T18:11:08","date_gmt":"2026-04-06T18:11:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/516253\/"},"modified":"2026-04-06T18:11:08","modified_gmt":"2026-04-06T18:11:08","slug":"boxing-lauren-price-set-for-two-fight-deal-with-claressa-shields-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/516253\/","title":{"rendered":"Boxing: Lauren Price set for two-fight deal with Claressa Shields"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Lauren Price is expected to return to action this summer before signing a two-fight deal to face fellow Olympic champion Claressa Shields, according to promoter Ben Shalom.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Price, 31, maintained her unbeaten professional record with a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/sport\/boxing\/articles\/ckg9eyykkeyo\" class=\"ssrcss-18834jl-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">unanimous points victory over Stephanie Pineiro<\/a> in Cardiff on Saturday night.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">She is next set to face an as yet unnamed opponent in August, potentially in the Welsh capital, before a blockbuster double-header with Shields &#8211; who was ringside for Price&#8217;s bout with Pineiro at Utilita Arena.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Asked when the duo could face off, Shalom told <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/sounds\/play\/m002tl7y\" class=\"ssrcss-18834jl-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">BBC Radio Wales Breakfast:<\/a> &#8220;Once in the US, and then hopefully once where we can come to either Cardiff City Stadium or (Cardiff) castle and do that in June next year.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;She&#8217;s selling out that (Utilita) arena too fast. She needs somewhere bigger.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Lauren Price is expected to return to action this summer before signing a two-fight deal to face fellow&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":516133,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[2560,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-516253","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\/516253","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=516253"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/516253\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/516133"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=516253"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=516253"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=516253"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}