Lauren Price brutally knocks out Bexcy Mateus to retain title

Lauren Price scored a vicious knockout against Bexcy Mateus in Liverpool.

Lauren Price scored a devastating knockout win over Bexcy Mateus today in Liverpool, retaining her WBA welterweight title with what was officially ruled a third round TKO.

Price (8-0, 2 KO) dominated the fight as expected, and the 30-year-old Welsh southpaw will now hope to face Natasha Jonas in a unification next year. Jonas is facing Ivana Habazin shortly in the main event of the same card.

Here’s the KO:

Referee Steve Gray probably could have been closer to the action and prevented Mateus (7-1, 6 KO) from being so badly wide open while already out on her feet, but Price (8-0, 2 KO) just did her job there, continued fighting.

Here’s an earlier knockdown Price scored, too:

Price has spoken in the lead-up to today’s card about her desire to face Jonas next.

“Whoever wins that fight between her and Ivana, I want next. I believe Jonas gets the win. It’s a massive fight for the British fans, an old school British dust-up,” she said this week.

“I respect Tash, who she is as a person and what she’s done for boxing. Not just women’s boxing, boxing in general. But she’s got titles, I’ve got titles. When I turned (pro), I wanted to move fast. I’ve got dreams and ambitions, I want to become undisputed. I want the biggest fights and that’s it.”