Claressa Shields again dominated and returned home to Flint, Mich., To win a wide unanimous decision over Marie-Eve Dicaire. All four belts were £ 154 and become a two-eight undisputed champion.
Shields (11-0, 2 KO) wins 100-90 from all three judges. Bad Left Hook was slightly more generous to Dicaire (17-1, 0 KO), meaning we tied her up for the ninth round and had it 99-91 for Shields.
Shields, 25, looked like she wanted the knockout blow, but as usual it never came and it never seemed very close to happening. But she had about the 34-year-old Canadian, whose restless energy never really resolved, and Dicaire could not build a real rhythm in the game, with Shields just voicing her opposition wildly again.
Shields retains the WBC and WBO titles, adds Dicaire’s IBF belt and also picks up the previously vacant WBA title.
‘100-90, I can’ t love it. But she just kept sticking my head out and giving me elbows. I tried to get a knockout blow, that was what I wanted, and it happened almost a few times, but we got two minutes, and then we got the ref to break it up when she held me and fucking, ” Shields said. “But at the end of the day, I’m the new undisputed champion at 154, the first boxer in history to do so twice. ‘
Shields plans to make her MMA debut with PFL, probably in June, but wants to box again this year. She was asked about a few fights, first a battle at 147 against current undisputed champion, Katie Taylor, who is £ 135, which I think makes sense.
‘Katie Taylor is not the concern, the 147 is not. Katie is a good fighter. “They have to pay me a lot of money to lose my butt to go down to 147,” Shields joked. “At the end of the day, I’m a woman, and that’s something I love very much. I do not have big breasts, but I have a nice butt, and I will lose it to 147. They should come with the dough, at least with a million. Talk to me soon. ”
The other question was about her old amateur rival Savannah Marshall, with a middleweight title, and Shields was much more animated about that one.
‘Savannah Marshall can’ t fuck me. Let’s really like it. Savannah Marshall, you won a lucky decision when we were kids. I was 17. I also hosted the London Olympics. She knows, ‘said Shields.
‘If you want to blow that you hit me eight points at 14, come now. Then you let me become champion in three different weight classes and are you a pro? Make it meaningful. Savannah Marshall knows she can ‘t fuck me and never will. She can come to America, I can go to the UK, we can go to Mexico, wherever Savannah Marshall wants to go, I will fuck her. Literally. She knows it.
“She’s scared of me. I have wanted to smoke for years. Savannah Marshall can get it. Tell Eddie Hearn, he got $ 250,000 with the crazy ass, he better get $ 500,000, $ 750,000 if he wants me to come and smoke his girlfriend. ”
Shields-Marshall is probably the fight that makes the most sense, but whether Shields can get an offer for it that she likes remains to be seen. Otherwise, it’s a bit difficult to figure out where she’s going to box here, because she’s basically beaten everyone to knock against the weights she can make comfortable.
Undercard results
- Danielle Perkins UD-8 Monika Harrison: These two fought last August, it was not competitive then and was not here. The 38-year-old Perkins (3-0, 1 KO) is now on the WBC “silver” heavyweight title list, for all it’s worth, which, to be honest, is not a ton. There are 13 heavyweights in the world rankings for women boxing on BoxRec. Two of the top four are 51 years old. Harrison (2-2-1, 1 KO) is a tough, tough woman, but she did not win a round out of 12 against Perkins over two fights. Perkins can fight, good athlete, but there is almost no one for her to fight, and she will have to come to 168 to find someone particularly good; we’re talking over 30 pounds to fall there, and she’s six feet tall and solidly built at 200.
- Jamie Mitchell TKO-5 Noemi Bosques: One-way traffic here. Mitchell, 36, was a good amateur fighter but has not fought since a draw in 2019 with current BKFC superstar Britain Hart. She looks really sharp here. Bosques (12-16-3, 2 KO) took it on short notice but have been with very solid fighters over the years. Mitchell (6-0-2, 4 KO) dominated here and hurt Bosques in the fourth and again in the fifth. The standstill was a bit odd, but it’s another battle where if the minutes were three rounds (like Esparza-Barnett just below in the summary), we would probably get a much more definite standstill. Mitchell would definitely be able to argue at 118 or 122, she was connected and looked very good here and at her age it could have gone just as well as possible.
- Marlen Esparza UD-6 Shelly Barnett: Esparza is a flyweight of trade and has a title fight with Ibeth Zamora, possibly for April, but she fought here at ten days as a bantamweight because she wanted to be on the map. Esparza did well the first two rounds, getting really hot in the third time, and the last three rounds dominated to the point that if women’s fights had had three minutes, she would have had a strike. Esparza (9-1, 1 KO), especially Barnett (4-4-2, 0 KO), was particularly loaded in the fourth and fifth rounds by landing loads of left-hand counters and main rights, and Barnett, in terms of talent, too much match but is a tough scraper and always comes fighting. But Esparza met her 126-49 overall and landed with a much higher connection rate (36% to 17%).
- Timur Kerefov TKO-3 Manny Woods: This one aired for free during the pre-show, featuring 31-year-old middleweight Kerefov – a decorated Russian amateur with a professional career despite his advanced age – who improved to 11-0 (6 KO) via stop on a cut in the third round. The cut was not bad in terms of blood loss, but was in a horrible spot in Woods’ left eye (16-11-1, 6 KO), and he could not open his eye at all. Woods, 33, has now lost five consecutive points, maintained all of them, and seven of his last eight date from 2016. Get Kerefov busy, but not a big win or anything, which is basically expected differently from the method.