Undisputed Middleweight World Champion and boxing famous person Claressa “GWOAT” Shields held a media exercise in Detroit to debate her Saturday, July 27, rise of two weight courses to problem for a world title in a fourth division in opposition to WBC Ladies’s Heavyweight World Champion Vanessa Lepage-Joanisse of Quebec, Canada.
The vacant WBO Gentle Heavyweight Championship may even be on the road on July 27, as each most important occasion fighters intention to unify 175-pound titles in a really particular version of “Massive Time Boxing USA” at Little Caesars Enviornment in Detroit that may air stay on premier international sports activities platform DAZN.
Shields (14-0, 2 KOs) and Lepage-Joanisse (7-1, 2 KOs) will headline a blockbuster night time of boxing offered by Salita Promotions and 313 Presents at downtown Detroit’s world-class venue and residential of the Detroit Purple Wings and Detroit Pistons.
Tickets for the July 27 occasion are on sale now and might be bought at Ticketmaster.com and the XFINITY Field Workplace at Little Caesars Enviornment.
Here’s what Shields and her promoter, Dmitriy Salita, needed to say at this time from the Downtown Boxing Gymnasium in Detroit:
CLARESSA SHIELDS
“I really feel like some issues solely occur as soon as in a lifetime, and so I’m joyful that Little Caesars Enviornment has given me the chance once more. To be given the chance right here in Detroit at one of many greatest venues right here, I really feel honored and privileged and humbled. I simply can’t wait to indicate what I can do at heavyweight, characterize Detroit and Michigan and Flint, and preserve bringing Massive Time Boxing again to Detroit.”
“I wish to go down in historical past because the ‘Beyonce of Boxing;’ the ‘Serena Williams of Boxing.’ I really feel like I’m unstoppable with regards to a battle and there’s all the time going to be fireworks, as a result of it they (her opponents) don’t begin the social gathering, I’ll.”
“Whatever the weight class, I haven’t seen any woman be robust sufficient, be expert sufficient, defensively or offensively, to beat me. I’m prepared to go wherever I must go to provide all these women an opportunity, so I can preserve proving them flawed. You guys have gotten the tapes, you’ve been finding out me all these years, and you continue to can’t beat me.”
On Additionally Preventing in MMA:
“I feel what makes me so highly effective inside this fight sport is that I all the time assume constructive. I put together as finest I can, I get in there and I battle, and I win. I don’t actually take into consideration all of the dangerous issues that might occur to me, as a result of that may disrupt what I’m making an attempt to do. I take into consideration being a nasty individual and doing these dangerous issues.”
DMITRIY SALITA
On why Shields selected to battle Joanisse:
“Should you take a look at the nice boxing champions from the state of Michigan and town of Detroit, individuals like Floyd Mayweather, Tommy Hearns, they took on the most important and the very best challengers. That’s what Claressa is doing, too.”
“She’s additionally bringing boxing again to Detroit. This can be her second present at Little Caesars Enviornment, which is without doubt one of the most stunning venues for boxing in the US.”
“Some athletes, whenever you see them on TV, appear unreal. Claressa is actual. She lives simply 30 miles away from Detroit. She’s Michigan-made and has a extremely unimaginable story. And in at this time’s day and age, when ladies’s empowerment is on the forefront, Claressa is on the head driving that message.”
(Media Observe: The 175-pound weight restrict is titled heavyweight by the WBC and Gentle Heavyweight by the WBO.)
