Undisputed Middleweight World Champion and boxing celebrity 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 towards WBC Ladies’s Heavyweight World Champion Vanessa Lepage-Joanisse of Quebec, Canada.
The vacant WBO Gentle Heavyweight Championship may also be on the road on July 27, as each most important occasion fighters goal to unify 175-pound titles in a really particular version of “Massive Time Boxing USA” at Little Caesars Area 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 evening of boxing introduced by Salita Promotions and 313 Presents at downtown Detroit’s world-class venue and residential of the Detroit Pink Wings and Detroit Pistons.
Tickets for the July 27 occasion are on sale now and may be bought at Ticketmaster.com and the XFINITY Field Workplace at Little Caesars Area.
Here’s what Shields and her promoter, Dmitriy Salita, needed to say as we speak from the Downtown Boxing Fitness center in Detroit:
CLARESSA SHIELDS
“I really feel like some issues solely occur as soon as in a lifetime, and so I’m pleased that Little Caesars Area has given me the chance once more. To be given the chance right here in Detroit at one of many largest venues right here, I really feel honored and privileged and humbled. I simply can’t wait to indicate what I can do at heavyweight, symbolize Detroit and Michigan and Flint, and maintain bringing Massive Time Boxing again to Detroit.”
“I need to go down in historical past because the ‘Beyonce of Boxing;’ the ‘Serena Williams of Boxing.’ I really feel like I’m unstoppable in terms of a struggle and there’s all the time going to be fireworks, as a result of it they (her opponents) don’t begin the celebration, I’ll.”
“Whatever the weight class, I haven’t seen any lady be powerful sufficient, be expert sufficient, defensively or offensively, to beat me. I’m prepared to go wherever I must go to present all these women an opportunity, so I can maintain proving them fallacious. You guys have gotten the tapes, you’ve been learning me all these years, and you continue to can’t beat me.”
On Additionally Combating 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 struggle, and I win. I don’t actually take into consideration all of the unhealthy 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 foul individual and doing these unhealthy issues.”
DMITRIY SALITA
On why Shields selected to struggle Joanisse:
“In the event you take a look at the nice boxing champions from the state of Michigan and the town of Detroit, folks like Floyd Mayweather, Tommy Hearns, they took on the largest and one of the 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 Area, which is without doubt one of the most lovely venues for boxing in the US.”
“Some athletes, while 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 very unbelievable story. And in as we speak’s day and age, when ladies’s empowerment is on the forefront, Claressa is on the head driving that message.”
(Media Word: The 175-pound weight restrict is titled heavyweight by the WBC and Gentle Heavyweight by the WBO.)
