Claressa Shields will have her hands full if she fights Shadasia Green, according to the self-proclaimed GWOAT’s women’s boxing rival Alycia Baumgardner.
A two-time gold medal-winning Olympian, Shields has put together an 18-0 (3 KOs) record with wins, to date, over Christina Hammer, Marie-Eve Dicaire, and Savannah Marshall. In her last bout, she boxed to a lopsided decision over Franchon Crews-Dezurn in front of approximately 18,000 fans at Little Caesars Arena in Detroit, February 22. Attention swiftly turned to what could be next, with Shields mentioning a Crews-Dizurn trilogy bout in a different weight class, a catchweight fight against Mikaela Mayer, or a fight versus IBF champ Green.
For Baumgardner, a Most Valuable Promotions stablemate of Green, that’s a bad news bout for Shields.
“She’s dangerous,” Baumgarder said of Green when talking to reporters after an MVP press event earlier this week.
Green had been talking about the purported Shields fight. “Skills pay the bills,” Shadasia said.
“Claressa is a great fighter but standing across the ring from Shadasia Green with 11 KOs and the threat — it makes for a really good fight.”
Green’s stature in boxing is only increasing with every fight, rebounding from a competitive loss to Crews Dezurn in 2023 with three wins on the spin including a narrow victory over Marshall, last year. She returns to the ring at the theater inside Madison Square Garden in New York on April 17 against Lani Daniels, with Baumgardner fighting Bo Mi Re Shin on the same show.
The fighters were at an MVP conference to confirm the promotion’s new partnership with ESPN. For MVP co-founder Nakisa Bidarian it was a chance to present the broadcaster with a pitch that “focused on women’s boxing because we think that’s the untapped opportunity to actually drive real new fan engagement in the sport.”
And now, its hulking roster which features many of the most prominent female fighters in the business perhaps stand to benefit, beyond Baumgardner and Green.
In a statement sent to Boxing Social, Green vs Shields is “a great fight” that MVP and Bidarian can “make happen,” Shadasia said.
“Just recently, I heard Shields say she wanted to fight Mikaela Mayer,” Green added. “She has to want it. I want it, but reality is we both have to come to terms and be willing to fight each other. I’m here. I’m not going anywhere, and I’m looking forward to the future.”
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