Ground Breaking Boxers

Tasha Jonas

As a great all-round sports woman, Natasha Jonas became Liverpool’s first female boxing great. Born in Liverpool on the 18th June 1984 to a family with historical Caribbean links. At the age of twenty, she took up the sport of boxing. Fighting out of the Rotunda ABC, Liverpool, her boxing talents and determination took her to the number five ranking in the International Boxing Association (AIBA) table, in the sixty-kilogram class. By 2010 she had won five ABA championships representing Rotunda ABC, in the sixty-four-kilogram division. In November 2009 she became the first female boxer to represent Great Britain and claimed the gold medal at the Womens European Union Amateur Boxing Championships in Bulgaria. In 2010 this was followed by another gold medal victory at the inaugural Great Britain Boxing championships in front of a boisterous home crowd at the famous Liverpool Echo Arena. She became the first female boxer to represent Great Britain at the 2012 Olympic Games, in London. She fought her way to the quarter finals, before losing valiantly to the eventual gold medal winner and four times world champion, Katie Taylor of Ireland. She entered the realms of professional boxing on the 23rd June 2017, winning with a TKO against Monika Antonik at the Walker Activity Dome, Newcastle. In April 2018, at the Echo Arena, Liverpool she contested and won the World Boxing Association International Female Super Featherweight title against Taoussy L’Hadjl with a TKO. So far in her career she has won eight of her nine fights. Her many devoted fans continue to support her ongoing success.