By: Sean Crose
It had been stated that the postponed undisputed middleweight championship combat between Claressa Shields and Savannah Marshall was going to be rescheduled for October fifteenth. Now it’s been made official. “New Date. Similar Mindset,” learn a Prime Rank Twitter put up that appeared Tuesday. Underneath that put up was a promotional pic for the cardboard. What makes Shields-Marshall a combat of specific word is the truth that Marshall is the one fighter to have ever defeated Shields, albeit within the novice ranks.
In fact the Shields-Marshall combat was alleged to go down on September tenth on the O2 Area in London. The demise of Queen Elizabeth the Second on the age of 96, nonetheless, led to the bout being postponed. The rescheduled card will nonetheless be taking place on the O2, which has taken to internet hosting a few of boxing’s larger bouts.
IBF and WBA junior welterweight titlist Mikaela Mayer can even be on the cardboard, participating in a unification battle with IBO and WBC titlist Alycia Baumgardner. The cardboard will go down on the identical day as Deontay Wilder’s heavyweight matchup with Robert Helenius. The Wilder combat, nonetheless, is occurring at Brooklyn’s Barclay’s Middle, hundreds of miles and a full time zone away from the O2 Area. Die hards ought to be capable to watch each occasions stay hours aside with out switching from one to the opposite.
