The self-proclaimed “GWOAT,” Claressa Shields (and you understand what the initials stand for – Biggest Lady of All Time!), will attempt to show her credentials much more in her subsequent combat. As has been reported by a number of information shops, Shields, 14-0(2), will go as much as heavyweight on July twenty seventh, when she’s going to problem reigning WBC girls’s heavyweight champ Vanessa Lepage-Joanisse.
The ringwalks for Shields vs. Lepage-Joanisse are scheduled for 12 a.m. ET / 5 a.m. UK with the occasion getting underway at 9 p.m. ET / 2 a.m. UK. The card will stream stay on DAZN in over 200 nations throughout the globe
The combat will happen in Detroit and can see Shields try and develop into a four-weight world ruler. Shields says that is an thrilling transfer for her, and he or she says the combat will serve so as to add to the thrill girls’s boxing is at the moment having fun with; that and the combat will, with a win, add to her greatness.
That is an fascinating combat and in addition a considerably complicated one by way of the world titles that will likely be contested. Lepage-Joanisse of Canada is the WBC girls’s heavyweight champion, however she weighed somewhat below 174 kilos in successful the belt, and as such, the vacant WBO mild heavyweight title can even be on the road on July 27 (type of like when Sugar Ray Leonard fought defending 175-pound belt-holder Donny Lalonde again in 1988, with a vacant 168-pound strap additionally up for grabs). Shields has, after all, gained world titles at 154, 160, and 168 kilos.
Lepage-Joanisse would be the naturally larger fighter on the night time, however this combat will see right here take a giant step up by way of class. The 28 yr outdated walked away from the game after struggling her sole profession defeat, this a stoppage loss to Alejandra Jimenez in a earlier problem for the WBC heavyweight title, this again in August of 2017. Since returning in March of final yr, Lepage-Joanisse has gained 4 on the spin, together with her successful the vacant WBC heavyweight title with a cut up resolution victory over Abril Argentina Vidal in March of this yr.
To make issues clear, the parents at BoxRec have the Shields-Lepage-Joanisse combat down as one that can contest the WBC heavyweight title, the vacant WBO mild heavyweight title, and the WBA interim mild heavyweight title.
Lepage-Joanisse, 7-1(2) says she may be very a lot up for the problem, as a lot as Shields is.
So, who is aware of what we’ll see on July 27. Will the bounce as much as 175 be an excessive amount of for Shields? Will Lepage-Joanisse be outclassed by the pound-for-pound star? What occurs after the combat, win or lose – will Shields drop again down in weight, and in that case, who will she combat?
As particular as she is, Shields has by no means actually met a dance associate able to bringing out her biggest stuff. Perhaps it will change subsequent month. Or perhaps not.
Shields vs. Lepage-Joanisse combat date, begin time
- Date: Saturday, July 27
- Time: 9 p.m. ET / 2 a.m. UK (Sunday)
- The card will stream stay on DAZN in over 200 nations throughout the globe
Shields vs. Lepage-Joanisse combat card
- Claressa Shields vs. Vanessa Lepage-Joanisse; For Joanisse’s WBC girls’s world heavyweight title
- Michel Rivera vs. La Vonte Early; Tremendous light-weight
- Shohjahon Ergashev vs. Julian Smith; Tremendous light-weight
- Cameran Pankey vs. Shaileik Paisley; Featherweight
- Gordie Russ II vs. Josiah Shackleford; Mild middleweight
- Husam Al Mashhadi vs. Bruno Leonardo Romay; Mild middleweight
- Ernesto Mercado vs. Hector Edgardo Sarmiento; Tremendous light-weight
- Jaquan McElroy vs. Travis Floyd; Welterweight
- Samantha Worthington vs. Edina Kiss; Tremendous light-weight
- Danielle Perkins vs. Christianne Fahey; Ladies’s heavyweight
