Shields hopes to elevate women’s boxing
Claressa Shields aspires to be the best female boxer of all time. On Saturday night, Shields tries to make that case stronger and stronger, as she is in action to become a three-division world champion. That’s when Shields is taking on former world champion Ivana Habazin for the vacant WBO Junior Middleweight Title.
Shields spoke with Champside and mentioned to them that she is just getting started.
“Well, I haven’t achieved everything I wanted to achieve yet,” Shields told Chmapside. “Right now, I consider myself the greatest woman of all-time to put on a pair of gloves. I want to prove that to everybody.
Claressa Shields Aspires to Earn $1 Million Purse
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The 24-year-old Shields (9-0, 2 KOs) is a two-division titleist, who became the undisputed middleweight champion with a near-shutout victory over Christina Hammer in April on SHOWTIME. In doing so, she joined Terrence Crawford, Jermain Taylor, Bernard Hopkins, Oleksandr Usyk, and Cecilia Braekhus, as the only fighters to have unified all four major world titles in any weight class (Katie Taylor has recently joined this list).
The mission for Shields now is to take women’s boxing to a whole new level.
“There’s so much more to be done with women’s boxing,” Shields said.”You know we don’t have equal pay, we don’t get equal TV time. Right now, I’m the highest-paid female boxer, and I just want to touch a m (million). I don’t know a woman’s fighter who has ever touched a m in boxing, in MMA yeah.
Shields, in her quest to be the G.W.O.A.T hopes that down the line, it will be passed on to other female fighters.
“You know, just trying to make it easier for the girls who come up after me,” Shields said.” The girls who want to turn pro, I don’t want them to have to go through the same thing I’m going thru now. We are just trying to make boxing equal.
The fact that there wasn’t much promotion at all leading up to this fight is troubling as this was the second fight in a row that the press conference wasn’t broadcasted anywhere. With another win on Saturday, let’s hope this gets that going in the right direction.
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