Natasha Jonas continues to be ready to set her subsequent world title defence.
The Liverpool star edged out Mikaela Mayer in an exhilarating IBF welterweight championship conflict in January.
Each Mayer and Jonas wished to rematch however a deal didn’t come to fruition. “It’s not us holding it up,” Jonas mentioned.
“We said yes straight away. I said yes, I’ve been talking to her team, obviously because I manage myself and we’ve tried to make it happen.”
She desires to combat Mayer a second time to depart little doubt that she deserved the choice of their first combat.
“That’s what I believed I could do. I beat her the first time, I’d beat her more convincingly the second,” she advised Sky Sports activities.
Within the interim Mayer will tackle Sandy Ryan for the WBO welterweight belt on September 28 in New York.
Mayer is not the one American to have began up a rivalry with Jonas. Sensible multi-weight champion Claressa Shields hasn’t hesitated to throw jibes on the Briton on social media.
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After retaining her IBF welterweight title in opposition to Mikaela Mayer, Natasha Jonas felt her opponent introduced the perfect out of her in what was a massively entertaining foremost occasion in Liverpool
“She seems to find an offence in absolutely everything,” Jonas laughed. “Just have a day off, have one day off.
“I get it as a result of there is no one she will combat left. So she’s received to speak her manner into fights as a result of there’s none for her, except she desires to go to PFL,” she added. “That is the type of disgrace of it. At these lighter weights, there’s much more competitors.
“At her weight division, there’s only a handful of athletes who, with respect, are any good and she’s beat them all.”
Their negotiations to combat have beforehand fallen by means of, primarily resulting from a failure to agree on the burden they’d field at.
Jonas was a unified champion at super-welterweight who has now moved all the way down to welter. Shields was an undisputed champion at middleweight and most lately fought all the way in which up at light-heavyweight.
“She hadn’t been at 154lbs for a very long time and I was barely 148lbs and they said if she doesn’t make it, can we make it a catchweight at 156 or 158 and I said, well no, because I’m nowhere near 154lbs. So her own team wasn’t confident that she could make the 154lb limit,” Jonas defined.
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“After the 154lbs talks fell through, for me it was done and dusted. It was that simple, she wasn’t going to come down, I wasn’t going to go up. So it was done.”
Jonas is 40 years outdated. She will not field many extra instances and when she does it should should be in high-profile bouts or world title unifications. However there are nonetheless extra contests to return.
“There’s definitely not a few but there might be one or two. Between now and never,” she mentioned.
“There’s no reason to fight [just] anybody. I want to be in the big fights. I want to have the big nights and you need to have another big name for you to do that.”
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