Contemporary off of her heavyweight title win over Danielle Perkins, Claressa Shields is setting her sights on a rematch of her 2022 battle with Savannah Marshall — however this one she desires to stage at heavyweight in accordance with her promoter Dmitry Sailta. Shields took a unanimous resolution win over Marshall of their first assembly on the middleweight division.
Salita says he’s formally reached out to Marshall’s staff about their curiosity and hopes to carry the battle to fruition, including that Shields extra energy at heavyweight makes her a fair larger risk to attain a knockout.
“We’ve had normal discussions over the previous a number of months and have expressed our curiosity in making the rematch occur,” Dmitry Salita, Shields’ promoter, informed Sky Sports activities. “I imagine she’s going to cease Savannah with the facility she possesses at heavyweight.”
If this proposed rematch is to achieve any traction Salita says the battle would must be both staged within the US or in a impartial location and never in England the place they fought the primary time. Shields is as completed as they arrive at this level and would look like angling for an opponent that can carry as a lot cash and notoriety as potential, with Marshall being a major title in ladies’s boxing.
