{"id":102641,"date":"2021-04-09T16:09:45","date_gmt":"2021-04-09T21:09:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/?p=102641"},"modified":"2021-04-09T16:10:32","modified_gmt":"2021-04-09T21:10:32","slug":"undefeated-ebanie-bridges-takes-on-shannon-courtenay-for-the-wba-world-bantamweight-title-tomorrow-in-london-boxing-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/?p=102641","title":{"rendered":"Undefeated Ebanie Bridges Takes on Shannon Courtenay for the WBA World Bantamweight Title Tomorrow in London &#8211; Boxing News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js\"><\/script><br \/>\n<!-- RSR AD 1 --><br \/>\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\" style=\"display: block;\" data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-1545664804358300\" data-ad-slot=\"7759247395\" data-ad-format=\"auto\" data-full-width-responsive=\"true\"><\/ins><br \/>\n<script>\n     (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\n<\/script><\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_102642\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-102642\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/?p=102641\" rel=\"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/?p=102641\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-102642 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/mail-300x212.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"212\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/mail-300x212.jpg 300w, https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/mail.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-102642\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">*<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><strong>Picture by Mark Robinson Matchroom Boxing<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Tomorrow at the Copper Box Arena in London, undefeated Ebanie Bridges takes on Shannon Courtenay for the WBA Bantamweight title.<\/p>\n<p>Bridges of New South Wales, Australia is managed by Split-T Management under Brian Cohen.<\/p>\n<p>Bridges has a record of 5-0 with two knockouts, just competed four-weeks ago as she won an eight-round unanimous decision over Carol Earl in Australia. Within hours of her victory over Earl, Ebanie hopped on a plane, and trained for the championship opportunity in Philadelphia.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Bridges, 34, has been at odds with Courtenay for the past several weeks. Tomorrow night they will do battle over 10-rounds to become world champion. The fight will take place under the Conor Benn &#8211; Samuel Vargas main event, and will be streamed LIVE on DAZN (2 PM ET \/ 11 AM PT)<\/p>\n<p>At Friday&#8217;s weigh-in, Bridges weighed in at 117 lbs. Courtenay, who comes in with a record of 6-1 with three knockouts, checked in at 117.875 pounds<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>EBANIE BRIDGES PRESS CONFERENCE QUOTES<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis same way I\u2019ve got noticed is the same way I\u2019m getting this fight noticed. I feel like women\u2019s boxing needs more eyes on the sport, we need to do whatever we can. I truly believe that the reason this fight has got so much talk about it is because of me, because of the different approach. I think that\u2019s what\u2019s helping getting eyes on the sport, getting talk on the sport and building it.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhat does matter is what happens in the ring, that\u2019s all that matters. If we can get as many people as possible to watch the fight, then Shannon and I can show to more diverse number of viewers that women can fight. That\u2019s my goal, get the views and once the people are watching Shannon and I are going to put on a show.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019ve been fighting and into martial arts since I was five, I haven\u2019t been a boxing fan for just five or six years, I was boxing fan well before I started in the sport. For me, the boxing part is very important to me, but I feel like we need to get more views on women\u2019s boxing and I\u2019m willing to do whatever it takes to get that.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI think me winning this World Title will show people you don\u2019t have to be like everybody else to achieve these goals. That\u2019s what I\u2019m going for.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m savage, I want to go in there and f**k this shit up. I\u2019m not here to play around, I\u2019m here to get the job done. I don\u2019t play around in boxing, when I fight, I\u2019m there to hurt you. I might look the way I look, but I can\u2019t wait to get in the ring and show people how I fight. The more people I can get to tune in to watch the Bomber, I couldn\u2019t have asked for a better platform, I\u2019m going to do whatever I can.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe both have the power to knock people out, so a knockout or stoppage is very possible. It\u2019ll come down to our conditioning and heart to see if it goes the ten rounds. If it does go the ten rounds, it\u2019ll be a very exciting ten rounds.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI truly believe if I win this fight on Saturday night, I\u2019ll become a superstar. If Shannon wins it she\u2019s still Shannon, she still has to beat Rachel Ball. She\u2019s a World Champion but I just think it\u2019s different. I\u2019m very excited to be that person and to be a new face and character in women\u2019s boxing.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Picture by Mark Robinson Matchroom Boxing Tomorrow at the Copper Box Arena in London, undefeated Ebanie Bridges takes on Shannon Courtenay for the WBA Bantamweight title. Bridges of New South Wales, Australia is managed by Split-T Management under Brian Cohen. Bridges has a record of 5-0 with two knockouts, just competed four-weeks ago as she [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[26207],"class_list":["post-102641","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-boxing-news","tag-undefeated-ebanie-bridges-takes-on-shannon-courtenay-for-the-wba-world-bantamweight-title-tomorrow-in-london-boxing-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102641","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=102641"}],"version-history":[{"count":-3,"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102641\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=102641"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=102641"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=102641"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}