Claressa Shields will defend her undisputed heavyweight crown in opposition to Franchon Crews-Dezurn at Little Caesars Enviornment in Detroit early subsequent yr.
Shields, 30, is undefeated in her 17 skilled bouts and have become the primary undisputed champion with a win over Danielle Perkins in February.
She signed an $8m multi-year take care of Salita Promotions and Wynn Information in November, which the promotion firm known as the richest contract in girls’s boxing.
Shields, a two-time Olympic champion, who goes by the moniker GWOAT [greatest woman of all time], has crossed paths with Crews-Dezurn earlier than, beating the 38-year-old by unanimous resolution in 2016 in what was each fighters’ skilled debut.
“I plan on putting Franchon Crews on her back and leaving with the KO,” Shields stated. “My last few fights, I was dealing with injuries, but now I’m 100 per cent. Franchon is elite, but I am super elite, and I plan on proving that come fight night.”
The undisputed girls’s heavyweight and five-division champion beat Lani Daniels in Detroit on the house of the Pink Wings and Pistons final summer season in entrance of 15,000-plus followers to defend her heavyweight belts.
In the meantime, unbeaten British welterweight world champion Lauren Value has repeatedly expressed hope of taking over fellow Olympic champion Shields sooner or later.
“The way I look at it, she’s always been in the back of my mind that I’ll box her one day,” Value informed Sky Sports activities. “I’d love that fight. I want to become undisputed first and then obviously think about that.”
Each Shields and Value had been Olympic gold medallists in the identical division, and the Welsh star believes they will struggle in future at middleweight.
“I’ve always thought I’ll be a multi-weight world champion. Obviously there’s talks to happen in regard to weight and what I go up to.
“Whenever you’re pushed and also you’re motivated, you wish to be concerned within the largest fights as properly.”
Price is confident that not only can she get the fight with Shields but that she can beat her too.
“She’s a fantastic fighter. I believe it is one of the best struggle on the market. It’s going to be a troublesome struggle however it’s a struggle I consider I can win as properly,” Price said.
“I believe I outbox her with my velocity, if I am sincere. I am simply too fast. She’s quick. She has acquired very quick fingers, however I am faster.
“Before she said she would do me and [Natasha] Jonas on the same night,” Value added. “Then I boxed Jonas and she said she was impressed, this, that and the other. And now she wants the fight. I must have done something right!”
