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My Take
Lauren Price strikes me as the kind of athlete who proves that breadth can become depth. Before boxing she played football and kickboxed in Newport, and rather than scattering her talent she funneled it into one ferocious focus, becoming the first-ever female British professional boxing champion and then a unified welterweight world champion holding the WBA, WBC and IBF belts. That trajectory, capped by an MBE in 2022, reads to me less like luck and more like compounding discipline. I find her especially compelling because she peaked through patience, and at her age the most interesting chapters may still be ahead.
Overview
Lauren Louise Price (born 25 June 1994) is a British professional boxer, former amateur boxer and former kickboxer and footballer. She has held the unified WBA, WBC, IBF, IBO, and Ring female welterweight since March 7, 2025. She was the first-ever female British professional boxing champion having won the welterweight title on 6 May 2023 and holding it until vacating the belt when she became World champion.
Summary adapted from Wikipedia, licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0.
1. Profile
- Name (English)
- Lauren Price
- Name (Japanese)
- ローレン・プライス
- Reading
- ろーれん・ぷらいす
- Born
- June 25, 1994 (age 31)
- Zodiac / Chinese zodiac
- Cancer / Dog
- Origin
- Newport, United Kingdom
- Blood type
- Private
- Height
- 167 cm
- Agency
- Private
- Occupation
- boxer / kickboxer / association football player
2. Background
- Elementary school
- Private
- Junior high
- Private
- High school
- Private
- University
- Private
Awards & achievements
- 2022 Member of the Order of the British Empire
3. Relationships
- Spouse
- Private
- Children
- Private
- Parents
- Private
- Siblings
- Private
4. Personality
Motto
Private
6. Links
Boxer — see all → · Kickboxer — see all → · More people from United Kingdom →
7. About this entry
Tags
- Last updated
- 2026-06-02
Facts are limited to publicly available information up to 2024; non-public items are marked "Private / Unknown". English text is machine-assisted (facts translated by Sonnet, "My Take" written by Opus 4.8). The Japanese page is the source of record.