Fight Talk: Natasha Jonas proves good things come to good people

Natasha Jonas has had the twelvemonth of her life, acknowledgment to her satellite rubric successes

Natasha Jonas has delivered a acquisition successful persistence and hanging connected to your dreams.

This week's Fight Talk takes a look astatine absorption to Jonas' success, and the different talking points successful the satellite of boxing - with pundits putting respect connected Sunny Edwards' name, and Ricky Hatton sending everyone into a nostalgia overload.

Going belts and braces

Jonas' champion twelvemonth successful boxing has travel precocious successful her career. Her rampant tally began successful February, erstwhile she moved up 3 value classes to knock retired Chris Namus and go the WBO super-welterweight champion. In September, she unified the super-welterweight part by beating Patricia Berghult. And connected Saturday, Jonas completed the treble, claiming the IBF light-middleweight title.

Jonas has acceptable the bar.

It's each made adjacent much singular considering that she astir discontinue the athletics successful 2018, aft suffering her archetypal nonrecreational decision against Viviane Obenauf.

"To think, astatine 1 stage, it was astir implicit and I astir walked away," Jonas reflected aft the combat connected Saturday.

The adjacent measurement for her could impact a rematch with WBA and IBO super-welterweight champion Terri Harper, oregon with undisputed lightweight champion Katie Taylor. Alternatively, she mightiness look undisputed light-welterweight champion Chantelle Cameron oregon undisputed middleweight champion Claressa Shields.

Right now, however, a bully remainder is astir apt good deserved.

It's ever Sunny

Sunny Edwards proved his skillset erstwhile again connected Friday. The 26-year-old Croydon combatant enactment connected a session against Nicaragua's Felix Alvarado, 33, successful what was a third palmy defence of his IBF flyweight title.

In winning, Edwards extended his undefeated grounds to 19 fights.

Whether it's due to the fact that helium purposely eschews fame, his past links with sanctioned promoter Daniel Kinahan, oregon the information that helium doesn't vie successful a heavier value category, boxing's 'forgotten man', arsenic Steve Bunce called him, doesn't ever drawback headlines.

Nevertheless, galore pundits complaint him among the champion successful Britain.

Do the lighter value categories get overlooked?

A unification could present beryllium connected the cards for Edwards, with Artem Dalakian and Julio Cesar Martinez some undefeated successful the flyweight division.

Hats disconnected to Hatton

Ricky Hatton enactment connected a amusement successful his location metropolis connected Saturday. The 44-year-old Mancunian returned to the ringing for the archetypal clip successful 10 years to instrumentality portion successful an accumulation bout against Mexican large Marco Antonio Barrera, 48.

A erstwhile light-welterweight and welterweight satellite champion, Hatton has battled with his value and intelligence wellness issues since retiring from boxing successful 2012, but was looking successful large signifier for this one.

Slimming down from 15st 4lb to 11st 6lb, helium told BBC Sport that the days of 'Ricky Fatton' were over.

Hatton's ringing walk, which featured 2 nurses and a zimmer frame, offered a small motion to the man's elder years.

The full happening was a existent nostalgia circuit for tons of fans.

A uncommon nonaccomplishment for Manchester City didn't look to dampen Hatton's mood.

We're successful the mediate of a Noughties revival.

High praise.

His lad Campbell was successful his country earlier the combat and determination to observe successful 'style' afterwards too.