Claressa Shields defeated points to Lani Daniels Last morning, successfully defending all his belts as the first undisputed heavyweight champion in female boxing. Shields, 30 years old and twice Olympic champion, improved his record at 17-0 against 15,366 fans in the Little Caesars Arena. Daniels, 36 years old, semi-shed weight champion of the FIB, fell to 11-3-2. He had won seven consecutive fighting.
The former superwélter weight champion Tony Harrison vend to Edward Díazof the Dominican Republic, by unanimous decision after being demolished in the ninth assault of the 10 -round fight. Harrison, a native of Detroit, improved his record at 30-4-1 in his first fight since he lost his title against Tim Tszyu more than 10 years ago.
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In the main fight, Daniels danced and moved along the ropes for two assaults to stay away from Shieldswhich was patient until it unleashed a series of combinations at the end of both assaults. Daniels did not run in the following assaults, and Shields took advantage of the advantage with blunt blows to the body and the head. Daniels fought for the first time outside his native New Zealand and was not well received in Motor City, where Shields is the favorite of fans. Shields, chosen on Friday for Michigan sport hallhigh level boxing in Detroit revived.
The city, with a rich history in this sport that includes Joe Louis, Sugar Ray Robinson y Thomas HearnsDecades passed without relevant fighting. The Wings and the Pistons moved to Little Caesars Arena in 2017, but the stadium did not host any boxing fight until 2023, when Shields was the protagonist and defeated Maricela Cornejo.
Shields He returned to Little Caesars Arena last summer and knocked out the WBC heavyweight champion, Vanessa Lepage-Joanisse, before about 12,000 fans, and attracted an even greater audience in his last fight. Earl this month, Katie Taylor He defeated Amanda Serrano for the third time before an audience that exhausted the tickets, with more than 19,000 spectators in the Madison Square Garden in New York, in the first exclusively feminine evening of the stadium. Shields He won gold medals in 165 pounds at the 2012 and 2016 Olympic Games, which made her the first boxer in the United States to win consecutive Olympic medals. At a professional level, he has won titles in five divisions, from 154 to 200 pounds.
