Boxing Classa Shields made history at the ring on Sunday night.
Shields dropped Danielle Perkins to become the first undisputed female heavyweight champion.
It is also the first boxer, male or female, in being the undisputed champion in three different kinds of weight in the time of the four belts. Shields did it in the middle junior weight and the average weight before this feat.
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Classa Shields trains during open media training at Downtown Boxing Gym in Detroit on January 7. (IMAGN)
Perkins was undefeated until Shields got a right hook in the last seconds of the tenth and last round. That blow, which collapsed Perkins for a few seconds before walking to a corner on the canvas, consolidated the history of the shields.
Perkins now has 5-1 for his career with two knockouts, while Shields remains undefeated with 16-0 with three knockouts.
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After the game, Shields was excited about victory, but revealed that he would really need shoulder surgery after suffering an injury before the fight. He pointed out not to be able to lift his left arm earlier for the week.
“In fact, I think I’m going to have to undergo surgery in my left arm. I scratched my labrum last week, so it almost did not happen,” Shields said, through ESPN. “I didn’t want to disappoint Flint, but I really couldn’t use my jab in the way I wanted, but I did the best I could. .
Classa Shields, on the left, fights the WBC WBC champion Vanessa Lepage-Joanisse during the main event of the main event at Little Caesars Arena in Detroit on Saturday, July 27, 2024. (IMAGN)
Shields gave perkins congratulations congratulations after the game, saying he was “strong as hell” with his blows to the ring. However, Shields was patient and beaten in the last second when Perkins Guard was low.
“My experience and my skills helped me and also, I have been in many street fights with larger people and I also had to use some of my skills in that. It is because it became greedy,” Shields said about his opponent.
Shields landed 29% of his blows to Perkins, as well as 36% of his power blows. Perkins landed only 19% of the blows.
Boxer Classa Shields fights the WBC WBC Vanessa Lepage-Joanisse champion during the main event of the main event at Little Caesars Arena in Detroit on Saturday, July 27, 2024. (IMAGN)
It was a unanimous decision on the card, since the judges ruled the fight in favor of the 97-92, 99-90 and 100-89 shields.
