{"id":39758,"date":"2026-03-08T03:15:49","date_gmt":"2026-03-08T03:15:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/jade-jones-boxing-debut-win-for-olympic-taekwondo-champion\/"},"modified":"2026-03-08T03:15:51","modified_gmt":"2026-03-08T03:15:51","slug":"jade-jones-boxing-debut-win-for-olympic-taekwondo-champion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/jade-jones-boxing-debut-win-for-olympic-taekwondo-champion\/","title":{"rendered":"Jade Jones: Boxing debut win for Olympic taekwondo champion"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\"><b class=\"ssrcss-1xjjfut-BoldText e5tfeyi3\">Double Olympic taekwondo champion Jade Jones marked her boxing debut with a second-round knockout victory against Egypt Criss in Derby.<\/b><\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">After two decades in taekwondo, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/sport\/olympics\/articles\/cdjyxxx03g3o\" class=\"ssrcss-18834jl-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\">Wales&#8217; Jones traded sports at the start of last year<\/a> saying she needed a fresh challenge, setting herself a bold target of becoming a world champion in two sports.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Her maiden bout came against Criss, daughter of hip-hop stars Anthony &#8216;Treach&#8217; Criss from Naughty by Nature and Sandra &#8216;Pepa&#8217; Denton from Salt-N-Pepa.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Jones, who won Olympic gold in London 2012 and Rio 2016, needed only two rounds to claim victory, with three successive left hooks flooring her opponent.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The 32-year-old from Flint has been training with former professional boxer Stephen &#8216;Swifty&#8217; Smith at Liverpool&#8217;s iconic 4 Corners Gym.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Jones has also taken inspiration from former room-mate, unified world boxing champion Lauren Price, who played football for Wales in addition to being a kickboxer and taekwondo player, prior to her own switch to boxing.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/sport\/boxing\/articles\/cz0g219z9mvo?at_medium=RSS&#038;at_campaign=rss\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Double Olympic taekwondo champion Jade Jones marked her boxing debut with a second-round knockout victory against Egypt Criss in Derby. After two decades in taekwondo, Wales&#8217; Jones traded sports at the start of last year saying she needed a fresh challenge, setting herself a bold target of becoming a world champion in two sports. Her [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":39759,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[11],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39758"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=39758"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39758\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":39760,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39758\/revisions\/39760"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/39759"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=39758"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=39758"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=39758"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}