{"id":320269,"date":"2019-07-24T07:18:19","date_gmt":"2019-07-24T14:18:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/?p=320269"},"modified":"2019-07-24T07:18:19","modified_gmt":"2019-07-24T14:18:19","slug":"boxing-champ-claressa-shields-eyes-battle-with-amanda-nunes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/mma-news\/ufc\/boxing-champ-claressa-shields-eyes-battle-with-amanda-nunes\/","title":{"rendered":"Boxing champ Claressa Shields eyes battle with Amanda Nunes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>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.<\/p>\n<p>Shields, having heard these comments from White, is all for it. She believes she&#8217;d wallop Nunes, but is more than willing to give the Brazilian UFC champion the opportunity.<\/p>\n<p id=\"sEBXmp\">\u201cI give her full props,\u201d Shields said <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/MMAonSiriusXM\/status\/1153839629591650306\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">MMA Tonight on SiriusXM<\/a> (transcript via <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mmafighting.com\/2019\/7\/24\/20708250\/morning-report-undisputed-world-champion-claressa-shields-more-than-willing-to-box-amanda-nunes\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">MMA Fighting<\/a>). \u201cIn MMA right now, she would beat me at this point. We\u2019re talking about if we fight tomorrow, at this point she would beat me. And at this point if me and her were to fight tomorrow, I would knock her out in a boxing match. That\u2019s just pretty clear but if Dana White wants to have her come over to boxing and try her luck with me, I\u2019m more than willing to meet her at 154 [pounds] and we can fight.<\/p>\n<p id=\"kpplSr\">\u201cI think Dana White has a lot of belief in Amanda Nunes and during that interview he didn\u2019t say that I wouldn\u2019t knock her out or he didn\u2019t say that she would beat me, he said that it wouldn\u2019t be a bad fight and it would be interesting,\u201d Shields said. \u201cI\u2019m happy he believes in her [but] I know what I can do in a boxing ring. No disrespect to her but it\u2019s a different game, MMA and boxing.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The timing of this discussion is certainly opportune, as the dominating Amanda Nunes is suddenly looking very short on viable opponents for fights inside the UFC&#8217;s Octagon. Perhaps it&#8217;s time she starts looking outside it.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><i>This article first appeared on\u00a0<\/i><a href=\"http:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/\"><span class=\"s1\"><i>BJPENN.COM<\/i><\/span><\/a><i>\u00a0on 7\/24\/2019. <\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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&#8217;d wallop Nunes, but is more than willing to give the Brazilian [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":54430,"featured_media":320274,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false},"categories":[10274,52074,39610],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v19.7 (Yoast SEO v19.14) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Boxing champ Claressa Shields eyes battle with Amanda Nunes | BJPenn.com<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Boxing champion Claressa Shields welcomes a crossover showdown with UFC featherweight and bantamweight champion Amanda Nunes.\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" 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