Natasha Jonas

Natasha Jonas
Natasha Jonas
Born	18 June 1984 (age 40); Liverpool, England
	Statistics
Weight(s)	Super-featherweight; Lightweight; Light-middleweight;
Height	5 ft 8 in (173 cm)
Stance	Southpaw
	Boxing record
Total fights	18
Wins	15
Wins by KO	9
Losses	2
Draws	1
Women's amateur boxing
Representing Great Britain
World Championships
European Championships
Website	natashajonas.co.uk

Natasha Jonas (born 18 June 1984) is a British professional boxer is a two weight world champion who has held the unified WBC,and WBO female light-middleweight titles since 2022. As an amateur, she won a bronze medal in the light-welterweight division at the 2011 European Championships; bronze in the lightweight division at the 2012 AIBA World Championships; and silver in the light-welterweight division at the 2014 European Championships.

Amateur career

Jonas took up boxing in 2005 and by 2010 she had won five ABA Championships in the 64 kg Division for Liverpool club Rotunda ABC.^[2] In 2009 she became the first female boxer to compete for GB Boxing.^[3] In the same year she claimed gold in the 64 kg division at the 2009 Women's European Union Amateur Boxing Championships in Pazardzhik, Bulgaria, after she overcame Csilla Csejtei of Hungary in the final. Jonas another gold medal in the inaugural GB Amateur Boxing Championships in 2010, when she pipped rival Amanda Coulson by one point in an exciting bout in front of her home fans at Liverpool's Echo Arena.

2012 AIBA Women's World Amateur Boxing Championships

Jonas made history in Qinhuangdao, China in May 2012, when she reached the semi-finals of the 2012 AIBA Women's World Boxing Championships to become the first ever female British boxer to qualify for an Olympic Games, she then went on to take the bronze medal and a place in the 2012 London Olympics back to Liverpool with her.

2012 Olympic Games

Jonas became the first ever British female boxer to compete at an Olympic Games. Jonas faced Quanitta Underwood of the United States in the round of 16, Jonas emphatically beat Underwood, 21:13 winning three of the four rounds boxed.^[4] Her wins set up a quarter-final bout with four-time World Champion, and Ireland's flag-bearer at the Opening Ceremony, Katie Taylor.^[4] Jonas lost heavily to Taylor 26:15.^[5]

Professional boxing record

18 fights	15 wins	2 losses
By knockout	9	1
By decision	6	1
By disqualification	0	0
Draws	1

No.	Result	Record	Opponent	Type	Round, time	Date	Location	Notes
18	Win	15–2–1	Mikaela Mayer	SD	10	20 Jan 2024	Echo Arena, Liverpool, England	Retained IBF female welterweight title
17	Win	14–2–1	Kandi Wyatt	TKO	8 (10)	1 July 2023	AO Arena, Manchester, England	Won vacant IBF female welterweight title
16	Win	13–2–1	Marie-Eve Dicaire	UD	10	12 Nov 2022	AO Arena, Manchester, England	Retained WBC and WBO female light middleweight titles Won IBF, and The Ring female light middleweight titles
15	Win	12–2–1	Patricia Berghult	UD	10	3 Sep 2022	Echo Arena, Liverpool, England	Retained WBO female junior-middleweight title; Won WBC female super-welterweight title
14	Win	11–2–1	Chris Namús	TKO	2 (10), 0:28	19 Feb 2022	AO Arena, Manchester, England	Won vacant WBO female junior-middleweight title
13	Win	10–2–1	Vaida Masiokaite	UD	6	20 Nov 2021	Wembley Arena, Wembley, England
12	Loss	9–2–1	Katie Taylor	UD	10	1 May 2021	AO Arena, Manchester, England	For WBA, WBC, IBF, WBO, and The Ring female lightweight titles
11	Draw	9–1–1	Terri Harper	SD	10	7 Aug 2020	Matchroom Headquarters, Brentwood, England	For WBC and IBO female super-featherweight titles
10	Win	9–1	Bianka Majlath	TKO	2 (6), 0:30	15 Nov 2019	Liverpool Olympia, Liverpool, England
9	Win	8–1	Bec Connolly	TKO	4 (6), 1:07	12 Jul 2019	Liverpool Olympia, Liverpool, England
8	Win	7–1	Feriche Mashauri	PTS	6	30 Mar 2019	Echo Arena, Liverpool, England
7	Loss	6–1	Viviane Obenauf	TKO	4 (10), 1:42	4 Aug 2018	Ice Arena Wales, Cardiff, Wales	Lost WBA International female super-featherweight title
6	Win	6–0	Taoussy L'Hadji	TKO	7 (10), 1:44	21 Apr 2018	Echo Arena, Liverpool, England	Won vacant WBA International female super-featherweight title
5	Win	5–0	Karina Kopinska	PTS	6	25 Feb 2018	Victoria Warehouse Hotel, Manchester, England
4	Win	4–0	Katarina Vistica	TKO	2 (6), 1:21	16 Dec 2017	Leisure Centre, Oldham, England
3	Win	3–0	Marianna Gulyas	TKO	3 (6), 1:23	13 Oct 2017	York Hall, London, England
2	Win	2–0	Bojana Libiszewska	TKO	4 (4), 1:17	30 Sep 2017	Echo Arena, Liverpool, England
1	Win	1–0	Monika Antonik	TKO	1 (4), 1:32	23 Jun 2017	Walker Activity Dome, Newcastle, England

Natasha Jonas won the British Boxing Board of Control’s 2022 British Boxer of the Year award, which made her the first woman to win the British Boxing Board of Control's British Boxer of the Year Award.^[6]

Personal life

Initially intending to be a footballer, Jonas spent eighteen months at St. Peter's College in the United States on a football scholarship.^[7] After suffering an injury that ended her football career,^[8] she returned to the United Kingdom and studied media studies at Edge Hill University, Lancashire.^[9] She was employed for five years by Liverpool City Council and was a mentor for the Youth Sport Trust for four years, helping to promote sport and healthy lifestyles to school-age children.^[10]

Jonas is an older sister of footballer Nikita Parris.^[11]

In the media

In July 2012, Jonas appeared alongside Tom Stalker and James Dickens in Channel 4 documentary, Knockout Scousers, which followed her to Czech Republic and China on her pursuit for Olympic qualification, a production which she also narrated. In August 2023, Jonas during her tour in Tanzania she appeared in Azam TV, where she shared her experience and motivated female local amateur boxers to encounter challenges they face in their careers towards substantial achievements in the sport. ^[12] ^[13]

References

^ https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/8/8d/Google_logo_%282010-2013%29.svg. {{cite web}}: Missing or empty |title= (help)
^ "Commonwealth Games Biography – Natasha Jonas". 8 August 2014. Retrieved 17 August 2015.
^ "Jonas targets third world title bid". BBC Sport.
^ ^a ^b "Olympic women's boxing: Natasha Jonas wins Britain's first female bout". The Guardian. Retrieved 22 July 2015.
^ "Olympic women's boxing: Katie Taylor beats Britain's Natasha Jonas". The Guardian. Retrieved 22 July 2015.
^ "Natasha Jonas becomes first woman to win British Boxer of the Year at British Boxing Board of Control awards". Sky Sports.
^ Holt, Oliver (24 July 2012). "Proving her worth: Natasha Jonas is fighting for Team GB, for herself and to demonstrate that women's boxing is here to stay". Daily Mirror. Retrieved 21 July 2015.
^ Television interview with Judy Murray on Driving Force.
^ "Natasha Jonas". Educate Magazine. 16 January 2012. Retrieved 25 January 2024.
^ "Natasha Jonas hangs up her gloves". gbboxing.org.uk. 7 April 2015. Archived from the original on 11 July 2015. Retrieved 21 July 2015.
^ Creighton, Jessica (6 August 2013). "Natasha Jonas: From dinner scraps to Olympic boxing battles". BBC Sport. Retrieved 21 July 2015.
^ TV, Azam. "Natasha Jonas, mkali wa ngumi kutoka England atua Tanzania na jambo". AZAM Media. Retrieved 16 September 2023.
^ "UK pugilist's tour boosts lady boxers". TSN. Daily News. Retrieved 16 September 2023.

External links

Boxing record for Natasha Jonas from BoxRec (registration required)
Natasha Jonas at Olympedia
Natasha Jonas (Official Website) natashajonas.co.uk
"Natasha Jonas’s weight of expectation", The Times, 16 August 2009
Natasha's exclusive training diary in the build up to London 2012 for Livefight Archived 13 May 2019 at the Wayback Machine

Sporting positions
World boxing titles
Vacant Title last held by Claressa Shields	WBO female light-middleweight champion 19 February 2022 – 2023 Vacated	Vacant Title next held by Ema Kozin
Preceded by Patricia Berghult	WBC female light-middleweight champion 3 September 2022 – 2023 Vacated	Vacant Title next held by Ema Kozin
Preceded by Marie-Eve Dicaire	IBF female light-middleweight champion 12 November 2022 – 2023 Vacated	Vacant Title next held by Femke Hermans
Vacant Title last held by Claressa Shields	The Ring female light-middleweight champion 12 November 2022 – present	Incumbent
Vacant Title last held by Jessica McCaskill	IBF female welterweight champion 1 July 2023 – present	Incumbent

[1] ttps://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/8/8d/Google_logo_%282010-2013%29.svg. {{cite web}}: Missing or empty |title= (help)

[2] "Commonwealth Games Biography – Natasha Jonas". 8 August 2014. Retrieved 17 August 2015.

[3] "Jonas targets third world title bid". BBC Sport.

[guardian2012-4] "Olympic women's boxing: Natasha Jonas wins Britain's first female bout". The Guardian. Retrieved 22 July 2015.

[5] "Olympic women's boxing: Katie Taylor beats Britain's Natasha Jonas". The Guardian. Retrieved 22 July 2015.

[6] "Natasha Jonas becomes first woman to win British Boxer of the Year at British Boxing Board of Control awards". Sky Sports.

[7] Holt, Oliver (24 July 2012). "Proving her worth: Natasha Jonas is fighting for Team GB, for herself and to demonstrate that women's boxing is here to stay". Daily Mirror. Retrieved 21 July 2015.

[8] Television interview with Judy Murray on Driving Force.

[9] "Natasha Jonas". Educate Magazine. 16 January 2012. Retrieved 25 January 2024.

[10] "Natasha Jonas hangs up her gloves". gbboxing.org.uk. 7 April 2015. Archived from the original on 11 July 2015. Retrieved 21 July 2015.

[11] Creighton, Jessica (6 August 2013). "Natasha Jonas: From dinner scraps to Olympic boxing battles". BBC Sport. Retrieved 21 July 2015.

[Tasha-12] TV, Azam. "Natasha Jonas, mkali wa ngumi kutoka England atua Tanzania na jambo". AZAM Media. Retrieved 16 September 2023.

[13] "UK pugilist's tour boosts lady boxers". TSN. Daily News. Retrieved 16 September 2023.

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