Claressa Shields could outbox Jake Paul with one-arm and is set for her UK debut on Chris Eubank vs Liam Williams card
Claressa Shields trains with Floyd Mayweather, could outbox Jake Paul with one-arm, among greatest women boxers ever and set for UK debut on Chris Eubank vs Liam Williams cardThe greatest female boxer in the world – the outspoken, outrageously gifted American Claressa Shields – makes her UK debut this weekend as she seeks to set up a middleweight unification fight that would avenge her only boxing defeat, amateur or pro.
Shields has been training at Floyd Mayweather’s gym with input from ‘Money’ himself ahead of her world-title defence against Ema Kozin on theHowever, in some ways Shields’ record is even more jaw-dropping than Mayweather’s – she’s not only unbeaten as a professional but lost only once, aged 17, as an amateur in 78 bouts. Even Floyd lost eight out of 92 amateur contests while he honed his skills.
Only two negatives hang over Shields. One is that even in women’s boxing, where the two-minute rounds make knockouts harder to score, she is not a huge puncher with two KOs in 11 pro fights . The Marshall fight has a clear, tantalising selling point – though Shields can point out that she was only a few months past her 17th birthday when she lost to the then 21-year-old Brit, so a fight between the two now would be on a far more even playing field. But whether it’s a lack of challenges or exhaustion after a decade of boxing, the mercurial Shields’ relationship with the sweet science seems complex. She has fought in the boxing ring only once a year for the last three years .
“I’m not going to say my mum didn’t care for us, but she left us to fend for ourselves. She abused alcohol and didn’t know how to control it,” she told BBC Sport in 2017.
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