Undisputed Middleweight World Champion and boxing famous person Claressa “GWOAT” Shields of Flint, Mich., and her subsequent opponent, Vanessa Joanisse of Quebec, Canada, mentioned their forthcoming combat.
On Saturday, July 27, at Little Caesars Area and stay on premier world sports activities platform DAZN, Shields (14-0, 2 KOs) will rise of two weight lessons to problem Joanisse (7-1, 2 KOs) for her WBC Girls’s Heavyweight World Championship and within the course of try to win a historic title in a fourth weight division. The vacant WBO Mild Heavyweight Championship can even be on the road.
The ladies’s tremendous combat will headline a really particular version of “Huge Time Boxing USA” introduced by Salita Promotions and 313 Presents.
Claressa Shields
It’s all the time good to be right here. I knew I blew the roof off this place final yr, so I used to be excited to get the decision they needed to have us come again.
Folks discuss my stardom, however they all the time skip that I used to be poor till I used to be 16. They all the time skip that I didn’t have a mattress till I used to be 17, after I received the Olympics. They all the time skip that I needed to go and purchase my first automotive as a result of I watched my mother struggling within the snow whereas I used to be using the bus. Folks by no means see the onerous work I’ve to place into who I’m.
I’ve fought as little as 154 kilos. Vanessa has fought as massive as 231 kilos. I’m not taking her evenly in any respect. I’ve plenty of respect for her.
I’ve by no means had the pleasure of padding my report (towards dropping opponents) in my profession. I’m the perfect feminine fighter on the earth as a result of I’ve overwhelmed the perfect. In three totally different weight lessons, I beat the perfect and I’m going for a fourth weight class on July 27.
I imagine that on July 27, I can be heavyweight champion of the world. As we will see, I’m not a real heavyweight and that’s okay. For the game of girls’s boxing, I’d go miles and miles to show we deserve equality, equal pay, equal alternatives and equal combat venues.
I’ve been saying for years I can refill stadiums like Little Caesars or Madison Sq. Backyard. They by no means gave me the chance. Now I’ve had the chance as soon as and on July 27 there can be 19000 individuals and it’s going to be a terrific combat.
I stay up for dealing with off with Vanessa. She does come ahead and she or he’s a head-hunter. She’s massive and she or he throws her weight round. I can’t look ahead to her to do this stuff to me so I can present her ‘you massive and every little thing, and also you’re robust, however there hasn’t been anybody I fought who wasn’t massive and powerful.’ I’m within the gymnasium placing on some weight for you. I squatted 230 yesterday and I’m benching 185, simply to maintain this massive lady off me.
Ensure you come to the combat July 27. Let me present you what ladies’s boxing is all about. It’s all about nice competitors and nice opponents and proving who is actually the perfect. Not simply speaking about it.
Folks discuss how I don’t have knockout energy, however I’ve to kill myself to make weight too. Now that I don’t, I feel I can be placing all that discuss to relaxation. She’s coming massive, robust and quick, however I’m coming massive, robust and quick too.
Vanessa Joanisse
(When she obtained the decision to face Shields) I stated let’s go! I would like the recognition Claressa has. She’s the face of girls’s boxing and I would like this combat. She has what I would like.
(Are you prepared for the massive stage?) Folks know my power and energy, however what they don’t see is my coronary heart. I’ve been by way of a lot in my life. Similar to Claressa, I feed off it. Little Caesars can be stuffed with plenty of followers screaming for her, however I’ll have all of Quebec behind me. They know my story they usually know I’m going to convey that belt again house with me on July 27.
That is historical past within the making. I’m impressed by the historical past of Quebec boxing. Once I received my belt, it was a dream come true. However now I need to take it additional by beating Claressa Shields right here in Detroit.
Chosen quotes:
Dmitriy Salita, Salita Promotions – Claressa goes to comply with within the footsteps of Roy jones Jr and likewise develop into the one feminine fighter to ever soar from junior middleweight to heavyweight and win the world title. I need to thank Eye of the Tiger and Mr. Estephan for serving to to make this occur.
We’re going to announce the undercard subsequent week, and it’ll function a few of the greatest fighters in Michigan and all over the world in essentially the most aggressive fights. We’re bringing Huge Time Boxing again to Detroit and making Detroit, as soon as once more, a hub of world-class skilled boxing.
Howard Handler, President 313 Presents – We’re so excited to companion up with two nice fighters. 313 Presents promotes and produces over 350 reveals yearly and entertains over 2 million individuals per yr. This venue is the place plenty of unbelievable issues occur and it’s an incredible backdrop to host an excellent larger combat this yr.
All people is aware of Detroit has a deep legacy in boxing and I can’t wait to see this combat. That is going to be an unbelievable battle. We need to hold establishing Detroit as a preeminent boxing vacation spot on the earth. We have now to indicate them what we’re product of in Detroit.
Camille Estephan, Eye of the Tiger – It is a essential combat for girls’s boxing. I’m right here to current Vanessa, the WBC Heavyweight Champion of the world. We’re going again house nonetheless holding this belt after the combat.
This would be the greatest combat of 2024. The purpose for us, frankly, is to go to Detroit to take one thing essential with us. Not solely the belt, however Claressa’s reputation as properly, with no disrespect.
Mark Taffet, President Mark Taffet Media – Vanessa is a good ambassador for girls’s boxing. She involves combat, and she or he represents the fashion that ladies’s boxing desires to exhibit. For her to step up and put her WBC heavyweight championship on the road… she didn’t have to do that. She has the power and braveness to go ahead.
Claressa makes historical past in each combat. In 2003, Roy Jones turned the primary man in 100 years to maneuver up from middleweight and win the heavyweight championship of the world. On July 27, Claressa will try to duplicate that and develop into the primary lady to do it. We’re thrilled once more to have her proceed to broaden her legacy on this sport on her option to the boxing corridor of fame sometime. She has plenty of historical past nonetheless to make and she or he’s dedicated to creating it.
Tickets for the July 27 occasion are on sale now and will be bought at Ticketmaster.com and the XFINITY Field Workplace at Little Caesars Area.
