Price calls for Shields fight after gruelling win over Pineiro

But Price's win over Pineiro was no walk in the park. Previously, Price has cruised through fights, but against the previously unbeaten Pineiro - who had promised to shock the Cardiff crowd - she was made to work for her win. Price expected the "kitchen sink from round one" and Pineiro immediately looked to start the fight on the front foot.

The 35-year-old landed her share of punches in the opening two minutes and did not look out of her depth in her first professional fight outside of Puerto Rico. However, Price was far more dominant in round two, using speed to her advantage against her significantly taller opponent to land a string of clean punches. The left eye of Pineiro looked visibly bruised and swollen to begin round three and three more right hooks from Price added to the damage.

But Pineiro proved she was there on merit in the middle rounds, turning in a composed fifth round during which Price's lip was heavily split. Undeterred, Price took things up a gear in the sixth and seventh rounds, finishing each with a flurry of punches which left Pineiro looking off-balance. Two relatively uneventful rounds followed, though the damage on both fighters' faces was becoming more and more apparent.

Knowing a knockout was probably needed, Pineiro pressed forward in the 10th and final round, but it was Price who continued to land the more significant strikes while cheered on by the majority-Welsh crowd. The judges' scorecards told the story, as Price was declared the winner to rapturous applause with scores of 99-91, 98-92 and 98-92. With a super-fight now in Price's sights, her promoter Ben Shalom said the Welshwoman could be the number one pound-for-pound female fighter on the planet by the end of the year.