Undefeated, reigning WBC heavyweight titlist Claressa Shields (15-0, 3 KOs) will attempt to become the first boxer in history to earn the coveted title of undisputed world champion in three different weight classes on Sunday, February 2 when she faces Danielle Perkins (5-0, 2 KOs) for all four championship belts. Following last week’s fight announcement, the WBA, IBF and WBO each have agreed to sanction the bout for their respective women’s heavyweight world titles.
This special Sunday event, Super Brawl Sunday, takes place one week before Super Bowl Sunday, and happens at the Dort Financial Center in Shields’ hometown of Flint, Michigan, airing on DAZN.
Depending on what the undercard is, I might go to this one.
– Go Lucie, go !!!!!!!!!!!
Veneration of these silly belts again. How many female fighters even compete in this division?
Exactly, and what level of competition? I’m not trying to be negative but this is a joke. Why not take on another divison next against someone 3-1 Claressa?
19 currently active, of which 7, including Shields and Perkins, have a winning record. The other 5 winning records probably weren’t considered for this fight.
Unless Danielle Perkins is the David Morrel of womens Boxing we can tell not many options for Clarissa. She’s cleaning out all the divisions.
Well she’s 42 years old with five fights. That’s one fight about every eight years. I’d say she’s more like the Keith Thurman.
– I just don’t see any interest in Ms Shields’ fights…….
I wish they made womens boxing rounds three minutes per round. And BTW, Shields balks like a ko artist but she has 3 ko’s in 15 fights? If a man talked like that, he be laughed.
Obviously, championship belts don’t mean what they used to. For the championship, loudmouth Shields is fighting someone with only five fights and this is newsworthy? It has no meaningful historical significance. Shields needs to disappear.
She needs to disappear? You want to talk about history? She is 29 yo, undisputed, competed and won her first gold medal when she was in high school, came back and did it again she is the only boxer, male or female to ever do that then turned around and made history when she fought for not only herself, but for every woman in the US Olympics to be paid the same amount of stipend that men get paid. How is that for newsworthy and historical significance?
It’s the same as tennis bro, you wann get paid the same do the same round times and rounds. They shouldn’t get paid in the Olympics anyway because they’re meant TO BE AMATEURS.
Lets make history Claressa
I hope she loses or we will never hear the end of it.
These female championship fights are a joke lol no competition so a female with 2 wins can become champion lol
Would Shields be racking up all of these undisputed world championships if she competed against the same amount of women that the men have to compete against?
Division: Female/Male
Heavy: 19/1531
Cruiser: 0/1416
Lt Heavy: 28/1686
Super Mid: 39/1712
Middle: 38/1870
Although some womens divisions/belts combine 175 and above as heavy, so it’s a lil confusing there.
and to add 90% of those ladies are just “participating” having next to nothing as far as fighting experience so yea claiming that especially in the higher weights carries little weight now below 147 there is a huge difference in participation and level of competition
Agreed.
Even in the lower weight classes for women, below 160, the total number of active boxers is low. Here are the top (4) weight classes with the most of amount of active boxers (fought in the last year)
1-Bantam 118 lbs…246 active
2-Feather 126 lbs….234 active
3-Super Fly 115 lbs…224 active
4-Light 135…221 active
Still, fairly low numbers for women in the weight classes with the most participation.
The men’s largest four divisions, per active boxers, span from 135 lbs to 154 lbs, and the largest group is the 140’s with 2528 active boxers. (boxed in the last year). The 135’s were next with 2484, 147’s at 2399, and 154’s with 2145 active men.
This is a joke. Undisputed is 3 weight classes give me a break.
It’s not too complicated to sweep divisions when you’re a gold medalist and your opponents have less than 10 fights and there’s really no competition at the weights your competing at. I think it’s sad that Clarissa will get all these empty accolades and surpass those who paved the way for women’s boxing.
Clyzer, we can’t really blame her for the lack of competition. It’s also asking too much of her to try to go way down in weight because we think there’s better competition. She is who she is and is beating everyone put in front of her. I don’t think she’s ducking anybody.
As far as the self promotion, I’m not a huge fan of it, but I think she has little choice. I doubt anybody other than family and friends would tune in without it. Is she the “GWOAT”? NOPE, but she might be generating a new level of excitement to young girls getting into the sport. In a way, the pavement is still very much being laid and Clarissa is doing her share of the work.