No numbers yet for last Friday’s “Superwomen: Shields vs. Dicaire” all-female pay-per-view event. “Final numbers are still coming in,” stated a press release from Shields’ promoter Dmitriy Salita and Shields’ manager Mark Taffet, the organizers of the event. They add that PPV buys are “reassuring” and have “already surpassed all projected sales expectations.” What the actual projections were was undisclosed.
The event was a sellout with the maximum allowable 375 seats grabbed up at the Dort Financial Center in Shields’ hometown of Flint, Michigan.
Here are some quotes from Team Shields…
Dmitriy Salita: “On the weekend of International Women’s Day, Claressa Shields accomplished another first for any man or woman in the long history of boxing. That coupled with her two Olympic Gold Medals and status as a three-division world champion, prove Claressa is a real-life Superwoman! From a young girl growing up in Flint to a woman winning her second undisputed world championship with the whole world watching, Claressa has showed what is possible for female athletes and for women’s boxing. I am honored to be involved in her Herstoric career and I want to wish women around the world a happy and meaningful International Women’s Day.”
Mark Taffet: “I am proud to be associated with women’s rights trailblazer Claressa Shields. Just 25 years young and already accomplishing, in the Olympics and in the professional boxing ranks, what no man has ever done. Claressa continually uses her platform and broad shoulders to stand tall for all women and demand equality across the board. On this International Women’s Day, I am thankful that Claressa Shields is championing the cause and continuing to make measurable and demonstrable progress in her advocacy of women’s boxing. Today and every day, men and women everywhere should stand beside Claressa as she transcends boxing and makes true societal change.”
Shields is truly something special to come from Flint, MI and accomplish so much. People take away from her accomplishments because its women’s Boxing and she rubs people wrong with her outspoken confidence. But you dont see any other women able to do what she does. Now, she needs to go to MMA for a proper challenge.
you have to talk trash to be a role model? what has Shields done exactly? to the average Fanboy sure her list of accomplishments seem outstanding but to the real fans or Boxing experts the truth is this….. she won 2 Olympic Gold medals basically because the lack of real competition and then her pro titles are even more of the same fighting women who are just part time fighters basically dabbling in the sport and her titles won are against virtual NOBODYS and the fact she is “ducking” a fighter that whooped her in the amateurs by going down in weight to fight smaller opponents WTF let 1 male fighter try that and hed be called a “weight bully” maximus lol in the end is Shields any good of course she is now is she the current P4P queen of female Boxing hell no that belongs to 7 weight division world champion who also holds the most KOs in female boxing Amanda Serrano
I’m glad it did well for them. If it exceeded their expectations then it probably destroyed mine. Hopefully next time she goes back to fighting on Showtime.
Shields is nothing more than a foul mouth subhuman classless pig. My daughter liked her but then got confused by her constant F bombs. Doesn’t surprise my that a member of her team assaulted a gentleman during a previous weigh in. Shields is lucky there is not much competition in women’s amateur boxing those gold medals don’t mean much when I look at the big picture.
She talks so much crap about “KTFO” of her opponents then bores me with decision win after decision win. I’m sorry but she can take a long walk on a short pier but first she needs to learn how to behave like a civilized human.
Subhuman?! Were you able to type this in your Klan robe or did you have to take it off?
Sorry John, “Queen Subhuman”
I heard the buys were a little under 100 buys
Clarissa Shields = Clown
What do you mean the numbers aren’t in yet? You just stated them. It was 375 people. You don’t seriously think anybody paid to watch this on TV do you? Listen to me very carefully, NOBODY WANTS TO WATCH SHIELDS FIGHT
All 375 tickets were sold , like actually paid for or were some donated? I heard the PPV #s were around 2200. They said the #s exceeded their expectations, must have been pretty low expectations. She really can’t scream equal pay when she doesn’t have the support or interest of the general public to watch her compete. The H2O in Flint will be as pure as Fiji water before CS fights pull big #s in a PPV. $29.99 will get me 2 months of interesting and entertaining movies on Showtime vs 4 hours of insomnia therapy that was the CS PPV.
All I hear is a lot of hate frome jealous couch potatoes…. and keyboard warriors…. shields is the best female fighter out Boxing or MMA …. she can talk the way she talks is fine …. she Backs it up with victory after Victory….. can’t say the same in the male divisions …. oh wait Floyd… and I see the same hateful souls with the same lame disgusting comments….. FOH
In all honesty, does it take over 2 weeks to announce the actual PPV numbers? Claressa Shields is a proud woman, she shouts to the world of her many accomplishments, stellar amateur record, Gold Olympic medals, unified champion in 2 weight classes, GWOAT, but when it comes to her first PPV numbers……. silence. The fact that they have not been announced yet tells you all you really need to know, it seems that if they were anywhere near any male boxer’s numbers they would have been on every form of media, yet as of 3/20/21 no where in the vast expanse of the world wide web can you find how many PPV buy where sold. Twice around a clock face is what it took for a general count of a men’s PPV bout, release the numbers already, why hide the truth?