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Claressa Shields became an undisputed champion successful a 3rd value class, adding to her undisputed titles successful the middleweight and light-middleweight divisions. (AP)
American Claressa Shields was crowned boxing’s archetypal undisputed satellite champion successful 3 value classes connected Sunday aft beating compatriot Danielle Perkins for the women’s heavyweight rubric by unanimous determination successful beforehand of a location assemblage successful Flint, Michigan.
Shields, who besides won golden medals astatine the 2012 and 2016 Olympics, landed a almighty close manus with seconds to spell successful the 10th and last round, knocking down Perkins and improving her nonrecreational vocation grounds to 16-0.
The triumph makes 29-year-old Shields an undisputed champion successful a 3rd value class, adding to her undisputed titles successful the middleweight and light-middleweight divisions.
Shields is the lone boxer, antheral oregon woman, to execute the feat.
“It feels unbelievable, to beryllium honest. I had a truly hard grooming camp. And conscionable past Friday, I tore my labrum successful my near shoulder, truthful I wasn’t capable to usage my bully jab today,” Shields said.
“But I didn’t privation to telephone the combat disconnected due to the fact that I had asked God to springiness maine a large combat successful my hometown. He did that. So I decided to support going done with it.
“I consciousness truthful happy. And outcry retired to my opponent, Danielle Perkins. Man, that miss was beardown arsenic hell.”
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