Lauren Worth is coming to Liverpool on a mission. When she fights Bexcy Mateus on December 14 she intends to put down a marker for rival world champion Natasha Jonas.
Jonas headlines on the Exhibition Middle this Saturday in an IBF and WBC welterweight world championship unification in opposition to Ivana Habazin, stay on Sky Sports activities.
Additionally on the invoice Wales’ Worth might be making the primary defence of her WBA welterweight title in opposition to Colombia’s unbeaten Mateus.
Victory, Worth is satisfied, will lead her to a showdown with the Jonas-Habazin victor subsequent yr.
Natasha Jonas instructed Lauren Worth she is assured of beating her now she’s signed to face the Welsh WBA champion in 2025
“Them massive fights are coming in 2025, positively,” Worth instructed Sky Sports activities. “I am not trying previous this woman. I’ve had an awesome camp. I have been in camp for a very long time and all I do is look to placed on a present, then transfer on to larger and higher.”
Worth, an Olympic gold medallist, beat former undisputed champion Jessica McCaskill to win the WBA belt. That proves that regardless of solely being seven bouts into her professional profession, Worth can combine with the very best in her weight class.
“Individuals doubted me on that. They mentioned it was too quickly for her. However I handled that and she or he was among the best within the division,” Worth mentioned of the McCaskill struggle.
“I all the time believed in myself. Even to the truth that folks mentioned: ‘I believed you’d drop a couple of rounds.’ I did not see it like that.
“I can use my velocity, I can use my talent, I can use my toes. And when somebody’s transferring and feinting, it is arduous to be the aggressor. As a result of once they begin lacking early on, it will get more durable for them and it will get simpler so that you can choose your pictures because the rounds go on.
“I am not massive headed in any respect, I simply need the massive fights. I say I am going to struggle anybody and I genuinely imply that,” she added. “If it was as much as me, me and Jonas would not produce other opponents, we would be combating one another in December. It’s what it’s. I get it. I get the professional recreation, it takes time.”
Lauren Worth acquired an unbelievable reception from followers after turning into Wales’ first feminine boxing world champion
Her time ought to be coming quickly, so long as she makes no slip ups in opposition to Mateus this Saturday.
“Sport. Uncooked. Wild. Powerful,” was how Worth described her subsequent opponent.
“Unorthodox typically, however you have simply acquired to be in your recreation. You have simply acquired to remain disciplined. It is a huge factor on this recreation, staying disciplined, staying composed, spherical by spherical profitable and getting the job carried out.
“I’ve confronted greater ladies. I have been in there with each single fashion. I’ve simply acquired to concentrate on me and what I am good at and getting the job carried out. Utilizing my talent, utilizing my velocity and I consider I come out on high.”
Lauren Worth claims her welterweight world title with a dominant win over Jessica McCaskill
She is having to bide her time as she waits for the possible struggle with Jonas, however believes her rival is making a mistake by leaving that conflict for subsequent yr. Worth warns that she’s solely getting higher.
“I have not stopped studying. I am including stuff to my recreation on a regular basis. You have acquired to have the ability to field, you have acquired to have the ability to struggle. You have acquired to have the ability to do a little bit of each. It is coming collectively,” she mentioned.
“I am not totally completed but. I am nonetheless studying. However at welterweight I consider I can beat all of them. I consider who I’m now as a fighter, I’ve acquired the talent, I’ve acquired the velocity, I’ve acquired the energy to win these fights. I consider in myself, my workforce consider in me.
“When you name your self a world champion, you are a world champion, then it is best to struggle anybody.”
Lauren Worth claimed the WBA world title after beating Jessica McCaskill on factors and says it’s the begin of many extra massive nights in Cardiff
In 2025 she’ll be coming for all of them, together with new WBO welterweight champion, American star Mikaela Mayer.
“I like Mayer so much and to be trustworthy, out of the entire division, I believe she’s the very best [of them]. That is a struggle that may positively occur as effectively,” Worth mentioned. “These are the massive fights that I would like.
“I’ve proven I could be up there and blend with the very best with beating McCaskill the best way I’ve carried out. All through my professional profession I have not dropped a spherical. It is the proper time and that is what I would like.
“I’ve nonetheless acquired issues I wish to tick off. I wish to create a legacy. I wish to field in Wales once more, I wish to develop into undisputed champion, I wish to be a multi-weight world champion. I suppose I’ve simply acquired to be affected person. In time these massive fights will come.”
Watch Jonas vs Habazin and Worth vs Mateus this Saturday stay on Sky Sports activities
