Claressa Shields 153.5 vs. Ivana Habazin 152.5
Jaron Ennis 145.75 vs. Bakhtiyar Eyubov 146.5
Alicia Napoleon Espinosa 164 vs. Elin Cederroos 166.5
Venue: Ocean Casino Resort, Atlantic City
Promoter: Salita Promotions
TV: Showtime
Claressa Shields: “It wasn’t difficult [to make weight]. In Flint I was 154.0. Now I’m 153.4. I could go down to 147 if I wanted to. I don’t fight off emotion. That’s why I’m a champion. There are plenty of girls who have done way worse things than what she’s doing trying to throw me off my square. I don’t really think what she’s doing, or her new coach, is supposed to bother me.”
Ivana Habazin: “I’m taking this fight more seriously than before and I gave everything into training, and I’m ready. She can talk saying she’s going to knock me out. Whatever. She doesn’t have that power and she will not knock me out. I have good defense and I know I have power so I’m going to knock her out.”
Shields has so much confidence because nobody can beat her in her division. Very little competition per capita. Pretty sad when it all goes to her head and she thinks she can whip a top 10 male fighter. In addition, she gets delusional and calls out past female champions already old enough to hit menopause. What a circus show!
There are so few women fighters and so many divisions that she could probably be a fifteen division champ.