Former WBO middleweight world champion Savannah Marshall (13-1, 10 KOs) dethroned undisputed super middleweight world champion Franchon Crews-Dezurn (8-2, 2 KOs) by ten round majority decision on Saturday at the AO Arena in Manchester, England. Ugly fight with lots of wrestling. Scores were 95-95, 99-92, 97-92.
Unified junior middleweight world champion Natasha Jonas (14-2-1, 9 KOs) stopped former two-time title challenger Kandi Wyatt (11-5, 3 KOs) to claim the vacant IBF welterweight crown. Referee Marcus McDonnell waved off the one-sided affair in round eight.
Nasty main event. This passes for talented high level boxing? Garbage matched only by Shield’s uneducated rantings and screeching from ringside.
Shields probably reads at a level lower than Lebron James. And that is pretty pathetic.
Claressa Shields is actually well spoken and articulate when she is behind the mic. She changed herself in my eyes. No more thug image.
she seems to speak very well, have u seen or heard her read, i would put money on it that she could out read u as quick as those punches she landed on savannah’s head. And about the other elite black future hall of famer u mentioned, I would say the same thing. u should ask your mom and dad if they did a great job raising a racist, I would also bet you’re a better racist than u are academically
Hopefully she reads better than you spell/punctuate.
I will say this. Crews-Dezurn did a great job singing the national anthem. No Class Crews did not do so well inside the ring. She was out boxed, and should have been disqualified. This was a boxing match. Not a wrestling match. The ref did a terrible job.
Several things: Credit to Franchon on the Anthem. That was neat and she did a good job. On the fight however, she just wrestled. I knew she couldn’t compete with Marshall on the outside but on the inside she grabbed and wrestled more than she fought. I thought on the inside she would let it rip. She must have felt something like power early because she acted like she didn’t want to fight. That score that had it even was ridiculous. It was a Marshall shut out.
Crews-Dezurn is unwatchable.
I saw her land about 3 semi clean shots all fight.
The rushing in and immediately clinching is atrocious.
Crews-Dezurn 4 out of 10 for anti boxing S Marshall won this fight fare and square because she was boxing Referees performance was below average The judge who scored it draw was watching Wrestling I expected more from these 2 top world class boxers
I think Marshall was trying to make it a boxing match but Dezurn wanted to wrestle like she just didn’t want to fight or she thought that would tire Marshall out or whatever but it made for a worse fight than I thought it would be. I thought Dezurn would come to the fight to war on the inside in a wild way.
Watched this on MUTE cause ‘Cackling’ Claressa Shields wouldn’t shut up the hole fight.
Shields needs to learn how to behave, or move back into the projects.
Both Marshall and Crews Dezurn looked like bad. That was an ugly ugly fight. Neither fighter deserved to win.
Marshall was superb. Crews cheated. Someone needs to tell Crews this is professional boxing, and stop that ghetto sht she uses in whatever project she lives at with her zero talent husband of hers.
Why would anybody pay to see this? This is what women’s boxing is, talentless and overhyped.
Just like the WNBA. This is why I keep saying that DEI has no place in boxing.
Exactly!
Ghetto Woke Loser Crews should have been disqualified for her lack of professional. Who cares if she sang the national anthem. This is BOXING. Not the DC Projects.
If Paul Wallace was the judge in Shields vs Crews-Dezurne, Shields would have a loss on her record. Marshall did MUCH better against loser Crews than Shields did.
This is disgusting. Ghetto Woke Joke Shields had the nerve to say Marshall did not learn from their fight. Even worse, had Crews ahead 3-0 after 3. I could care less if Shields is a better boxer than Marshall. Marshall is a much better human being that the ghetto sub human low life piece of crap (Shields). Shields is a loser. She has no class. I hope Shields loses all of her endorsements.
@LeKaren James, what’s with all of your racist ranting and vitriol? This is a boxing forum! Take your white sheet and hood, leave your mom’s basement (KKK swamp) and march right on down to said ghetto/DC Projects with that hatred and see how that works out for you (not so) tough guy!!! You keyboard racists are the real bytches!
Thank you all for saving my 20+ minutes of my time.
I don’t think ESPN had a Shields interview but Sky Sports did.♂️ Shields beats Marshall easy in the rematch. So easy that a rematch with Crews would be better for her. Where was Barry Hunter?
Women’s boxing. Handbags at five paces.