Lauren Price will make her second ring appearance of 2021 at the Grand Prix event in Ústí nad Labem in the Czech Republic (5 – 8 May) The 26-year-old has not boxed since winning silver at Hungary’s Bocskai tournament in February, where she was making her return after a 16-month absence.
Rosie Eccles fought her way to a superb gold medal at the Belgrade Winner tournament in Serbia. Wales’ 2018 Commonwealth Games silver medalist triumphed over Navbakhor Khamidova of Uzbekistan.
Rosie Eccles will go for gold on Monday after reaching the final of the Belgrade Winner tournament in Serbia. Wales’ 2018 Commonwealth Games silver stopped local boxer Aleksandra Rapaic in her welterweight bout on Sunday night.
Rosie Eccles is guaranteed her second medal of 2021 after reaching the semi-finals of the Belgrade Winner tournament in Serbia. Wales’ 2018 Commonwealth Games bronze medalist guaranteed herself a medal after beating Balzhan Askar.
Lauren Price will bid to add another gold medal to her growing collection at the Bocskai Memorial Tournament in Hungary today. Despite being out of the ring for 16 months, middleweight Price has reached the final in Debrecen so it guaranteed at least silver..
Lauren Price and Rosie Eccles are guaranteed a medal double at the Bocskai Memorial Tournament in Hungary. World and European champ Price ended a 16-month spell out of the ring with victory over Gabriele Stonkute in Debrecen.
Rosie Eccles made a winning return to the ring at the Bocskai Memorial Tournament in Hungary. The Caldicot welterweight beat Italy’s Angela Carini by split decision in Debrecen.
Wales’s boxing ace Lauren Price will return to the ring for the first time in 16 months in Hungary next week. The Tokyo hopeful will be part of an eight-strong GB team competing at the Bocskai Memorial Tournament in Debrecen (8-12 February).
Rosie Eccles admitted she was “heartbroken” after losing her opening bout in the Boxing Road to Tokyo Olympic qualifying event at the Copper Box Arena on Sunday. Eccles lost a split points decision to Russian fourth seed Saadat Dalgatova and the Welsh welterweight told Boxing News: “I don’t know what to say to be honest with you, I’m absolutely heartbroken. “I knew what to do to combat her style, but one way or another, according to the judges, I didn’t do that.
Wales’ trio of world class amateur boxers are all safely on the first stage of their road to this year’s Tokyo Olympic. Recently crowned world champion Lauren Price, Rosie Eccles and Sammy Lee have all made the Great Britain team for the Tokyo Olympic qualifier at the Copper Box in London in five weeks’ time. It means Wales will have three fighters in the group of eight men and five women who will carry the fight for GB. They will be part of more than 350 boxers from over 40 countries who will compete for 77 places at Tokyo 2020 at the qualifiers from March 14-24.
Wales can boast two world class women boxers – world champion Lauren Price and Olympic hopeful Rosie Eccles, who both came through Pontypool Amateur Boxing Club. For Eccles, 2020 is all about positive thinking and moving on from last year, as she told Owen Morgan. Rosie Eccles isn’t someone who dwells on past disappointments. In August, a contentious decision denied her a place in the final of the European Boxing Championships and two months later a narrow loss to a top class opponent saw her exit the World Championships after her second bout.
Lauren Price will miss the EUBC Women’s European Boxing Championships in Madrid to focus on the World Championships. GB Boxing chiefs have decided not to consider the middleweight for selection given her recent busy schedule including winning European Games crown in Belarus.