Natasha Jonas already has one big fight lined up for 2025, and she’s hoping at least one more will follow.
Jonas, the unified IBF and WBC welterweight titleholder, will take on WBA and lineal champ Lauren Price on March 7 at the Royal Albert Hall in London. If Jonas (16-2-1, 9 KOs) gets a victory, she wants a rematch with either Katie Taylor or Mikaela Mayer.
Taylor (24-1, 6 KOs) is the former undisputed lightweight champ and undisputed at junior welterweight. She is coming off a hotly contested, hotly debated unanimous decision victory over Amanda Serrano on the Jake Paul-Mike Tyson undercard in November.
Mayer (20-2, 5 KOs) has the remaining world title at 147, the WBO belt she won with a majority decision over Sandy Ryan in October.
Jonas says her top pick of the two is Taylor.
“She’s beat me twice – I just want one win,” Jonas said with a laugh. “And I believe I’m a better boxer than the last time we fought. I also believe that the time we fought was behind closed doors, it was Covid times and we deserve to have a crowd.”
Jonas and Taylor first met in the quarter-finals of the 2012 Olympics, with Taylor winning on points. They fought again in May 2021, this time as professionals, and Taylor defended her lightweight championship with a narrow-but-unanimous nod.
Jonas soon moved up in weight and found more success, taking out Chris Namus in February 2022 for the vacant WBC junior-middleweight title. She added two more wins and two more world titles at 154 before moving down to 147, stopping Kandi Wyatt in July 2023 for the vacant IBF welterweight belt. Jonas defended it with a split decision over Mikaela Mayer in January and then added the WBC title in December with a decision over Ivana Habazin.
Retirement would most likely follow for Jonas, who turns 41 in June.
“I don’t believe I’ve got anything else to prove after that,” she said.
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