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Who is Claressa Shields?
Claressa Maria Shields is well-known as an American professional boxer and mixed martial artist. She has held multiple world championships in 3 weight classes, such as the undisputed female light middleweight title since March 2021 the undisputed female middleweight title from 2019 to 2020, and the unified WBC and IBF female super middleweight title from 2017 to 2018.
Shields currently holds the record for becoming a 2 and 3-weight world champion in the fewest professional fights. She is ranked as the world’s best active female middleweight by BoxRec, as best the 2nd-best active female boxer, pound for pound, by ESPN and The Ring.
She is the only boxer in history, female or male, to hold all four major world titles in boxing-WBA, WBC, IBF, and WBO simultaneously, in 2 weight classes. In a decorated amateur career, Shields victory gold medals in the women’s middleweight division at the 2012 and 2016 Olympics, making her the 1st American boxer at the February 2012 U.S Olympic Trials, winning the events in the 165 lb (75kg) middleweight division.
The st year in which women’s boxing was an Olympic event in May she qualified for the 2012 games and went on to become the 1st American woman to win an Olympic gold medal in boxing. Her only loss professional or amateur comes from British fighter Savannah Marshall. The Boxing Writers Association of America called her the Female Fighter of the Year.
Amateur career
After winning 2 Junior Olympic championships, she competed in her 1st open-division tournament, the National Police Athletic League Championships 2011. Shields victory the middleweight title and was called the top overall fighter and also qualified for the U.S Olympic Trials.
At the 2012 Olympic Trials, she defeated the reigning national champion Franchon Crews-Dezurn, the 2010 world champion, Andrea Wasson, and Pittsburgh’s Tika Hemingway to victory the middleweight class. She won her weight class at the Women’s Elite Continental Championships in Cornwall, Ontario against 33-time demanding world champion Mary Spencer of Canada, she held an undefeated record of 25 wins and 0 losses at that point.
How old is Claressa Shields
Shields is currently 27 years old as of 2022, having been born on March 17, 1995, in Flint, Michigan, the U.S. She shared his birthday with celebrities such as James IV, Gottlieb Daimler, Eisaku Satō, Bobby Jones, Bayard Rustin, Sammy Baugh, Nat King Cole, Sheikh Mujibur and others.
Claressa Shields Family
Who are Claressa Shields’s Parents?
Shields was born on March 17, 1995, in Flint, Michigan to her parents Marcella Adams and Bo Shields. Her father had boxed in underground leagues.
Does Claressa Shields have siblings?
Shields has three siblings in the family a total of four of who are named Briana Shields, Artis Mack, and Duadle Lewis.
Claressa Shields Education
Shield attended high school at Flint Northwestern High School where she was a junior. She then joined Olivet College for her higher education.
Claressa Shields Interests
Shields is a Christian and was baptized at the age of 13, She is an ambassador for UP2Us Sports, a national non-profit organization dedicated to supporting underserved youth by providing them with coaches trained in positive youth development. Additionally, she is an ambassador for gender equality in sports, especially boxing, which she insists is under-covered by the media. She is also a pescatarian.
Claressa Shields Spouse
Shields is currently not married but has been linked to a relationship with gym owner Tony Richardson.
Claressa Shields Children
Shields does not have any children of her own to date. She tried to adopt her cousin’s daughter in 2014.
Claressa Shields Height
Shields has an athletic, beautiful, and stunning body adding up to a height of 5 ft 8 in (1.73 m) and a weight of 70 kg (155 lbs).
2012 to 2014
After she win at the U.S Olympic Trials, it was initially reported that she would need only a top-8 finish at the 2012 AIBA Women’s World Boxing Championship in Qinhuangdao, China, in order to qualify for the 2012 Olympics.
The day after the contest began before she is 1st bout a change to the rules was announced that meant she would need to place in the top 2 from the American Boxing Confederation region of AIBA on May 10.
She victories her 1st round but was beaten in the 2nd round on May 13 by Savannah Marshall of England, bringing her record to 26-1.
2014
She win the World Championship gold medal in 2014. And the following year, she become the 1st American to victory the title in Women’s boxing at the Olympics and Pan American Games. As a result of her performance in the Pan American Games, she was given the honor of serving as Team USA’s flag bearer at the closing ceremony.
2016
Shields victory the gold medal at the 2016 AMBC Olympic Qualifying tournament in Argentina. Before that year at the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio, she wins the gold medal in the women’s middleweight division by defeating Nouchka Fontijn of the Netherlands.
Professional boxing career
She faced Szilvia Szabadoz for the North American Boxing Federation middleweight title in 2017, And win by TKO. This was the main event on ShoBox, with a regional title fight between Antonio Nieves and Nikolai Potapov serving as the co-main event. It was the 1st time a women’s boxing bout was the main event on a United States premium network card.
2018
She retained her WBC and IBF female super middleweight title on June 22, 2018. And victory the WBAN super-middleweight title by defeating 17-0, Tori Nelson. It was her 1st time going all10 rounds in her professional; career.
2019
On October 5, 2020, Shield was scheduled to fight Ivana Habazin for the Vacant WBO junior middleweight title in Flint, Michigan. All over, the fight was postponed due to Habazin’s trainer being attacked at the weigh-in.
2020
The battle between her and Habazin took place with an all-female ring on January 10, 2020. The Atlantic boardwalk hall had a sold-out Venue as Claressa victory by unanimous decision, 99-89-100-90 and 100- 89, and become the fastest ever to win titles in 3 divisions male or female in history.
2022
On February 5, 2022, she faced Ema Kozin. Then Shields captured a unanimous decision with all referees scoring every round for her and retained her WBA, IBF, WBC, and The Ring female middleweight titles meanwhile winning the WBF female middleweight title also.
Professional mixed martial arts career
She had signed a 3-year contract with Professional Fighter and was expected to make her mixed martial arts in 2021 on November 2020. From her 1st reveals that her MMA debut, she has also been training in Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu and has gone to train under IBJJF no-gi World Champion Roberto Alencar alongside Holly Holm. In late 2020 she also started training at JacksonWink MMA.
On June 10, 2021, Shields made her MMA debut at PFL 4, against Brittney. She victories the fight via technical knockout in round 3.
On August 27, 2021, she was the 2nd bout was initially scheduled to take place on the PFL 9 event, against an opponent yet to be called. All over, on July 12, 2021, news surfaced that her bout was rescheduled to take place in order to garner more exposure at an ESPN-aired PFL 8 event on August 19, 2021.
On October 27, 2021, it was eventually rescheduled for PFL 10. With her facing Abigail Montes. She lost the bout via split decision
Filmography
She is the subject of the 2015 documentary “T-Rex: Her Fight for Gold. Universal Pictures, a division of Comcast, which holds Olympic broadcast rights in the United States, acquired the right to produce a film about her life story. Barry Jenkins is the screenwriter. Entitled Flint Strong, Rachel Morrison will be directing with actress Ryan Destiny portraying her.
She will be acting in the Susan Seidelman-directed film Punch Me. Shields acted in a Walmart and was directed by Dee Rees in 2018.
Awards
Shields won the Nickelodeon Kid’s Choice Sports Awards for Biggest Powerhouse in 2017. She was inducted into the USA Boxing Alumni Association’s Hall of Fame in 2018. The Boxing Writers Association of America gave her the 2018 Christy Martin Award-Female Fighter of the Year.
Claressa Shields Net Worth
American professional boxer and mixed martial artist, Shields has been active from 2017 to the present. She is a member of the Jackson Wink MMA Academy (MMA) and has a net worth of around $4 million as of 2022.
