Unified middleweight world champion Claressa Shields and former world champion Ivana Habazin went face to face Thursday at the final press conference two days before they battle for the WBO and WBC 154-pound world titles live on Showtime from Dort Federal Credit Union Event Center in Flint, Michigan.
Claressa Shields: “I’m a 168 fighter. And I have to keep coming down to these girls’ weight because they’re scared to come see me. So I came to 154 and I came to see her. I’m going to show her. As you can see, this is the Claressa Shields show. It’s about me. There’s no friction in my camp. We are about business and we’re about the money. Pay me.”
Ivana Habazin: “I didn’t come here to lose. I came here to win. I don’t want to waste my energy talking before the fight, but I just want to say I’m excited to see how happy everyone here is right now for Claressa, because they’re going to be sad on Saturday when I win.”
Note: At Thursday’s press conference, Gordon Hall, SVP, Production, Showtime Sports and Event Programming and Executive Producer of Saturday’s telecast, presented Claressa Shields with a $10,000 donation to the “Claressa Shields Community Project.” With this $10,000 donation, Shields will surpass her current fundraising goal for the project.
Claressa shields has gone full Hoodrat.
Calarissa is her own worst enemy, she’s a very good female fighter and that’s it. Clarissa’s imitation of Wilder doesn’t even look good on Wilder, big mouth, I’m woman’s boxing gets old real quick!!