(Boisbriand) Marie-Ève Dicaire wanted a big challenge for her next title defense. Is going to face Natasha Jonas in her backyard in Manchester in mid-November for a super-welterweight title unification bout too big?
Posted at 1:18 p.m.
Obviously Dicaire (18-1, 1 K. -O.) and Groupe Yvon Michel do not believe this is the case. But they don’t deny that Jonas (12-2-1, 8 KOs) poses possibly the biggest challenge since the International Boxing Federation (IBF) super-welterweight champion rubbed shoulders at Claressa Shields.
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Natasha Jonas
As with the clash against Shields, Dicaire will travel to try to win the World Boxing Council (WBC) and World Boxing Organization (WBO) belts held by the Briton: the fight will take place at the AO Arena on 12 november.
As Dicaire is ranked No. 1 in the magazine’s ranking The Ring and Jonas second, The Ring belt will also be at stake.
This will be the seventh world title fight for Dicaire, including a second unified. This will be his sixth defense of the IBF title. Only Shields managed to steal it from him. Dicaire took it over in her next fight, last December, against Cynthia Lozano.
As for Jonas, who has just reached the super-welterweight after having worked in the lightweights, she will deliver a fifth world championship fight.
She will try to defend her WBO title for the second time, while it will be the first time that she will put into play the WBC belt won on September 3 by unanimous decision against Patricia Berghult.