{"id":684101,"date":"2026-07-10T11:23:07","date_gmt":"2026-07-10T11:23:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/684101\/"},"modified":"2026-07-10T11:23:07","modified_gmt":"2026-07-10T11:23:07","slug":"jade-jones-double-olympic-taekwondo-champion-to-face-sheena-bathory-for-misfits-title","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/684101\/","title":{"rendered":"Jade Jones: Double Olympic taekwondo champion to face Sheena Bathory for Misfits title"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Two-time Olympic taekwondo champion Jade Jones will fight Sheena Bathory for the Misfits super middleweight title in Newcastle on 12 September.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Jones, 33, has won both her fights since switching to boxing, including a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/sport\/boxing\/articles\/c5yzvnmpq48o\" class=\"ssrcss-1fqyhkk-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">brutal stoppage of Argentine combat sports influencer Federikita<\/a> in June.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Hungarian MMA fighter Bathory, 34, beat Tina Snows on the same bill in Manchester, on the undercard of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/sport\/boxing\/articles\/cq51gpg19qjo\" class=\"ssrcss-1fqyhkk-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Tommy Fury versus former World&#8217;s Strongest Man Eddie Hall.<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">After Jones&#8217; victory, Bathory &#8211; who won her debut fight with a first round knockout  &#8211; climbed into the ring to tell the Welsh fighter, &#8220;I&#8217;m coming for you for my next fight&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Jones replied, &#8220;Definitely&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The pair will meet on the undercard of Jordan McCann v Big Stacks at the Utilita Arena.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Misfits was set up by influencer KSI in 2021 to promote sports entertainment and is not one of the recognised world sanctioning bodies.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Two-time Olympic taekwondo champion Jade Jones will fight Sheena Bathory for the Misfits super middleweight title in Newcastle&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":684102,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[2560,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-684101","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\/684101","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=684101"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/684101\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/684102"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=684101"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=684101"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=684101"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}