Claressa Shields will return to Detroit to make a heavyweight championship defence on July 26.
New Zealand’s Lani Daniels will problem Shields for the undisputed heavyweight title on the Little Caesars Enviornment.
Shields turned the primary undisputed heavyweight champion in ladies’s boxing when she beat Danielle Perkins earlier this 12 months to unify the WBA, WBO, IBF and WBC belts.
Shields, a two-time Olympic gold medallist and unbeaten skilled champion at super-welter, center and super-middleweight, dropped Perkins heading in the right direction to taking unanimous factors determination.
The 36-year-old Daniels is the IBF’s light-heavyweight world titlist, having beforehand been their heavyweight champion. She is unbeaten in her final 9 bouts with a 11-2-2 (1) document.
The house of the Detroit Purple Wings and Detroit Pistons opened in 2017, however the Little Caesars Enviornment did not have a boxing card till nearly two years in the past when Shields was the headliner and beat Maricela Cornejo.
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Shields, from Flint, Michigan, was again there final summer time when knocking out WBC heavyweight champion Vanessa Lepage-Joanisse in entrance of about 12,000 followers and can possible be a giant draw for a 3rd time in July.
“Women’s boxing has grown by leaps and bounds since Claressa Shields headlined the very first women’s main event on a nationally televised card,” her promoter Dmitriy Salita stated.
