{"id":800729,"date":"2026-10-13T00:52:09","date_gmt":"2026-10-13T00:52:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/800729\/"},"modified":"2026-10-13T00:52:09","modified_gmt":"2026-10-13T00:52:09","slug":"lauren-price-rules-out-claressa-shields-but-hints-at-big-showdown-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/800729\/","title":{"rendered":"Lauren Price rules out Claressa Shields but hints at big showdown"},"content":{"rendered":"

Price says her focus is simply on Kotaskova, who took Cameron the distance<\/a> in London in April. <\/p>\n

Her loss on the scorecards at light-middleweight is her only defeat in a 15-fight career and will present a tough challenge for Price in her 11th fight since giving up her amateur status.<\/p>\n

At one stage it had seemed as though all roads led to a showdown with Shields, with the two facing off<\/a> after Price’s win over Pineiro earlier this year.<\/p>\n

Shields called out Price as recently as August<\/a> having reclaimed titles at middleweight.<\/p>\n

A two-fight deal had been speculated but, when pressed on what happened, Price told BBC Sport Wales: “There was nothing on my side. The money wasn’t great, I wanted to fight in America and in Wales, but she wouldn’t come here, and there was no rematch clause.<\/p>\n

“Everything basically was stacked against me and it just didn’t make sense.<\/p>\n

“I have to stand on my own two feet and think: ‘I’m Lauren Price, I’m unified champion, Olympic gold medallist.’<\/p>\n

“If I was towards the end of my career or if I had a few losses, absolutely you jump on it.<\/p>\n

“But there’s no rush and there’s equally exciting fights out there.<\/p>\n

“That fight will definitely happen, but only when it’s the right time and it makes sense.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Price says her focus is simply on Kotaskova, who took Cameron the distance in London in April. Her…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":800730,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[2560,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-800729","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\/800729","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=800729"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/800729\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/800730"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=800729"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=800729"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=800729"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}