A few of the greatest up-and-coming girls’s boxing expertise will be a part of The GWOAT Claressa Shields on the undercard of “SUPER FIGHT SUNDAY”, a particular Sunday night time world championship occasion happening on February 2, on the Dort Monetary Heart in Flint, Mich., and airing dwell on international streaming service DAZN.
Shields headlines the cardboard in her hometown and can try and win the Undisputed Heavyweight World Championship towards undefeated Danielle Perkins. Shields, together with main promoter Dmitriy Salita and Salita Promotions, will shine a highlight on girls’s boxing all through the night time.
Salita Promotions has signed WBC Worldwide featherweight champion Caroline Veyre, (PRO: v-air) because the Paris native prepares to combat for the vacant WBA Intercontinental title, in addition to Puerto Rico’s Olympic darling Ashleyann Lozada who will make her anticipated skilled boxing debut on Feb. 2. Additionally on the cardboard is world-rated, 140-pound contender Samantha Worthington of Kentucky, who’s coming off an announcement victory in December and on the lookout for a title shot towards division kingpin Katie Taylor.
Tickets for the occasion at Dort Monetary Heart are on sale now and might be bought on-line or in individual on the Dort Monetary Heart Field Workplace.
“4 of the fights on this undisputed world championship combat card are distinctive girls’s bouts,” stated Salita. “Salita Promotions is proud to companion with Claressa Shields in an effort to advance girls’s boxing. Collectively, we try to create equal alternatives in publicity and promotion, push for equal purses and assist all our fighters obtain their desires of changing into world champions and stars within the sport.
“Ashleyann Lozada, Puerto Rico’s first feminine Olympian, and French contender Caroline Veyre are world-class athletes with unbelievable potential,” Salita continued. “I’m honored they’ve entrusted Salita Promotions to information their careers to the following stage. They be a part of Claressa and Sammy Worthington, the present WBA No. 1 contender, on our increasing roster of the game’s premier expertise.”
“Girls’s boxing is at such an thrilling second proper now,” stated Shields. “Having three girls’s bouts on DAZN is a milestone we couldn’t have imagined 5 or 10 years in the past. I’m proud to have blazed the path for unbelievable fighters like Samantha Worthington, who’s shortly making a reputation for herself, and the gifted girls signed with Salita Promotions. This displays my imaginative and prescient of not simply excelling within the ring however creating alternatives as a promoter. I’m constructing a blueprint for the following era to point out them what’s attainable. On February 2 in Flint, followers are in for a number of thrilling matchups and one unforgettable night time of boxing!”
Veyre, a 36-year-old Parisian, now preventing out of Montreal, is 8-1 and has a crowd-pleasing model. She is going to tackle Carmen Vargas (5-2-1) of Houston, Texas, for the vacant Girls’s WBA Intercontinental featherweight title.
Successful gold on the 2015 Pan American Video games and reaching the quarterfinals on the 2020 Olympics in Tokyo, Veyre joins Salita Promotions with world title aspirations. Most not too long ago, she defeated Gabriela Bouvier final December for the Girls’s WBC Worldwide featherweight title. Veyre made her skilled debut in 2022 when she earned a unanimous determination victory over Liliana Marisela Borquez following an achieved beginner profession. Her sights are on division champs Amanda Serrano and Skye Nicholson.
“I’m so excited and elated to hitch Salita Promotions,” Veyre stated. “Their actions, dedication, and perception in girls’s boxing reassures me within the alternative I’ve made with Dmitriy. Being a part of the identical promotion and co-manager as Claressa Shields, the very best feminine boxer on the earth, is very motivating for me. I work arduous to all the time give my greatest, and I’m extra decided than ever to dominate this division. Let’s simply say there’s a brand new sheriff on the town!”
Ashleyann Lozada, remarkably, is Puerto Rico’s first feminine boxer to take part within the Olympic Video games. She is going to make her skilled debut towards Denise Moran (3-0) of San Diego, Calif. A local of Corozal, Lozada certified for the 2024 Paris Video games by clinching a bronze medal on the 2023 Pan American Video games. She is the one Puerto Rican athlete, male or feminine, to win gold medals on the 2018 and 2023 Central American and Caribbean Video games. The 33-year-old Lozada was influenced by watching Miguel Cotto in her youth.
“I’ve labored my complete life for this second,” stated Lozada. “I can’t wait to step into the ring as a professional and present my followers in Puerto Rico and everybody watching around the globe that nothing will cease this Boricua from reaching my dream of changing into a world champion.”
The facility-punching Sammy “The Warmth” Worthington (10-0, 7 KOs) of Lexington, Ky., by the use of Folsom, Calif., returns to the Dort Monetary Heart simply six weeks after an announcement win in December to sq. off towards Lithuania’s Vaid Masiokaite (10-26-6, 1 KO). Worthington continues to make her means towards a world title shot. She is at the moment ranked No. 2 within the IBF, No. 3 within the WBO and No. 6 within the WBC and WBA at 140 kilos and, with a win on Feb. 2, could possibly be in-line to combat for a world title this 12 months.
“The Warmth” is co-promoted by Shields’ T-Rex Promotions and Salita Promotions.
“Katie Taylor is the last word purpose I’m striving for,” stated Worthington, 29. “She is the very best on the earth, and there’s nothing extra I would love than a shot at her world titles.”
