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Connor O'Neill

Natasha Jonas successfully makes weight as she bids to become a two-weight world champion

Natasha Jones successfully made weight as she bids to write her name into the boxing history books by becoming a two-weight world champion.

Jonas, who is already the unified WBC, IBF and WBO super-welterweight champion, is moving down to welterweight to fight Kandi Wyatt for the vacant IBF championship at 147lbs at the AO Arena tonight. The first female British boxer to qualify for an Olympic Games, Jonas, who hit the scales at 10st 6lbs 5oz, now has the chance to enhance her legacy with a win over Wyatt, who came in at 10st 6lbs.

"I've always been comfortable at super-welter; that extra pound is really nothing in the grand scheme of things," Jonas said after coming off the scales.

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