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Claressa Shields will go back to Detroit to make a heavyweight championship defence on July 26.
New Zealand’s Lani Daniels will problem Shields for the undisputed heavyweight identify on the Little Caesars Arena.
Shields become the primary undisputed heavyweight champion in girls’s boxing when she beat Danielle Perkins previous this 12 months to unify the WBA, WBO, IBF and WBC belts.
Shields, a two-time Olympic gold medallist and unbeaten skilled champion at super-welter, center and super-middleweight, dropped Perkins on the right track to taking unanimous issues resolution.
The 36-year-old Daniels is the IBF’s light-heavyweight global titlist, having in the past been their heavyweight champion. She is unbeaten in her closing 9 bouts with a 11-2-2 (1) report.
The house of the Detroit Red Wings and Detroit Pistons opened in 2017, however the Little Caesars Arena did not have a boxing card till virtually two years in the past when Shields was once the headliner and beat Maricela Cornejo.
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Shields discusses a possible long term bout with welterweight global champion Price and what weights both of them must soar to
Shields, from Flint, Michigan, was once again there closing summer season when knocking out WBC heavyweight champion Vanessa Lepage-Joanisse in entrance of about 12,000 lovers and will be a large draw for a 3rd time in July.
“Women’s boxing has grown by leaps and bounds since Claressa Shields headlined the very first women’s main event on a nationally televised card,” her promoter Dmitriy Salita stated.
