Natasha Jonas intends to spherical out a rare 12 months on Saturday towards Marie-Eve Dicaire on the Manchester Enviornment.
It’s the venue the place Jonas started her fast ascent to world degree when she picked up the WBO title there in February. The Liverpudlian established herself as a top-class super-welterweight when she outboxed Patricia Berghult final September to unify the WBO and WBC belts.
This weekend, stay on Sky Sports activities, she takes on IBF 154lb champion Dicaire in a bid to win her third championship belt of 2022.
Natasha Jonas expects to showcase the perfect model of herself on Saturday evening as she takes on Marie-Eve Dicaire in a super-welterweight unification bout in Manchester
Jonas is aware of victory would set her up for a good greater 12 months in 2023. However Dicaire might be harmful.
“Nothing goes to cease me getting the win on Saturday evening,” the Canadian warned. “I am a pure 154(lbs), so clearly we have got the load and the peak benefit… It is not her first battle at 154 so clearly we do not take it with no consideration.
However she concluded, “I am greater and stronger and I will reap the benefits of this.
“She’s within the form of her life however I’m too.”
This battle is the be-all and end-all for Jonas as effectively. “I am simply targeted on what’s in entrance of me,” the Liverpudlian stated. “It has been a busy 12 months, I am grateful, I am grateful, I simply need to end it off with a bang.
“For the primary time in a really very long time I’ve actually loved this camp,” she continued. “For this camp, it has been so fulfilling as a result of I’ve discovered and added issues to my repertoire, and I simply need to exit and present it on Saturday.”
Each are rival champions and their battle on Saturday will determine who’s the perfect super-welterweight on this planet. “It is the primary versus the quantity two and it settles the rating,” Jonas stated. “It’s going to affirm to everybody not simply to me, that I am on the high of the division.”
Dicaire towers over Jonas of their face-off (Photograph: Lawrence Lustig/BOXXER)
It’s the type of occasion, a ladies’s world title battle headlining an enviornment present, that Dicaire had all the time wished to be part of.
“Now right here we’re the principle occasion,” the IBF titlist stated. “A little bit lady dreamed of that and now it got here true.”
Chief help to their world title battle might be Dalton Smith’s thrilling British title defence towards Kaisee Benjamin.
“We’re in for an excellent battle,” Smith stated. “We’re in skilled boxing, whoever will get hit with an eight-ounce glove, you are going to get damage.”
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However he added, “The percentages are Kaisee will get hit greater than me nevertheless it’s a battle…”
“I’ve what it takes to beat him,” Benjamin promised. “I all the time need to be in massive fights.
“100 per cent he’ll be my hardest take a look at and I will be his hardest take a look at so it is a make-or-break battle.”
Watch the Jonas vs Dicaire present this Saturday stay on Sky Sports activities Enviornment from 7pm and Sky Sports activities Fundamental Occasion at 10pm.
Tickets out there right here.
