Claressa Shields gained a unanimous resolution over Canada’s Marie-Eve Dicaire of their junior middleweight title unification bout Friday evening, turning into the primary boxer within the four-belt period, male or feminine, to grow to be an undisputed champion in two totally different weight lessons.
The 2-time Olympic gold medalist from the USA gained 100-90 on all three playing cards within the headline attraction, which marked the primary time in 20 years a ladies’s boxing match was the principle occasion of a pay-per-view.
Shields (11-0) was preventing in her hometown of Flint – in a matchup that was beforehand scheduled for 9 Could earlier than being referred to as off due to the coronavirus. Shields additionally had a battle scheduled in opposition to Ivana Habazin in Flint in 2019, however that was scrapped after an altercation earlier than the weigh-in. Shields finally defeated Habazin in a rescheduled battle in New Jersey.
Shields landed 116 of 409 punches (28%), in comparison with 31 of 263 for Dicaire (12%).
With the win over Dicaire (17-1), Shields turned the unified WBC, WBO, IBF and WBA champion at 154lbs. She had beforehand unified all 4 of the key sanctioning physique belts at 160lbs with a factors win over Christina Hammer in April 2019.
Shields mentioned she is going to take per week to have fun her birthday and earlier than establishing camp in New Mexico forward of her blended martial arts debut in June.
Additionally Friday, Danielle Perkins (3-0) outpointed Monika Harrison (2-2) to win the WBC silver heavyweight championship, bantamweight Jamie Mitchell (6-0-2) stopped Noemi Bosques (12-16-3) within the fifth spherical, and 2012 Olympic bronze medalist Marlen Esparza (9-1) outpointed Shelly Barnett (4-4-2) in one other bantamweight battle.
