Category: Claressa Shields

  • Claressa Shields aims to ‘walk all over’ Ivana Habazin en route to making history

    Claressa Shields aims to ‘walk all over’ Ivana Habazin en route to making history

    Claressa Shields is excited for a few things heading into her Jan. 10 fight with Ivana Habazin: make boxing history, finally have a new “next fight” and help create an additional surge in women’s boxing. Shields, the undisputed middleweight champion, will face Habazin for the vacant WBC and WBO 154-pound titles at Ocean Casino Resort in […]

  • Claressa Shields says she will train with Jon Jones, make MMA debut in 2020

    Claressa Shields says she will train with Jon Jones, make MMA debut in 2020

    Claressa Shields is looking to make a lot of history in 2020 — in the boxing ring, and in the world of mixed martial arts. Shields has the opportunity to become a three-division world boxing champion and do so faster than any fighter in history when she faces Ivana Habazin on Jan. 10 for the […]

  • Amanda Nunes warns Claressa Shields amid talk of UFC move

    Amanda Nunes warns Claressa Shields amid talk of UFC move

    There’s recently been renewed discussion about a potential MMA showdown between two-division UFC champion Amanda Nunes and boxing champion Claressa Shields — thanks in large part to the comments of Dana White. “Claressa Shields is coming [to UFC 245],” White told BT Sport ahead of Nunes’ Saturday night bantamweight title fight with challenger Germaine de […]

  • Claressa Shields targets Amanda Nunes, manager in talks with Dana White

    Claressa Shields targets Amanda Nunes, manager in talks with Dana White

    Boxing champ Claressa Shields is ready to make her MMA debut, and is willing to do so against the best female mixed martial in the game today, two-division champ Amanda Nunes. The undisputed middleweight champion Shields has two gold medals and a multitude of world titles in two different weight classes. At just 24 years […]

  • Boxing champion Claressa Shields considering ‘trying the UFC’

    Boxing champion Claressa Shields considering ‘trying the UFC’

    It seems like two-time Olympic champion and undefeated professional boxer Claressa Shields is truly pondering a transition to the sport of mixed martial arts. Shields, who captured gold medals in the 2012 and 2016 Olympics, has been eyeing a fight in the boxing ring with current UFC women’s bantamweight and featherweight champion Amanda Nunes. Tuesday […]

  • Boxing champ Claressa Shields eyes battle with Amanda Nunes

    Boxing champ Claressa Shields eyes battle with Amanda Nunes

    UFC President Dana White recently shared his interest in promoting a boxing match between Amanda Nunes, who holds the UFC featherweight and bantamweight titles, and middleweight boxing champ Claressa Shields. Shields, having heard these comments from White, is all for it. She believes she’d wallop Nunes, but is more than willing to give the Brazilian […]