Claressa Shields becomes two-weight undisputed champion with victory over Eve Decaire

Shields becomes two-weight undisputed champion to make history once again

Claressa Shields made history on Friday night with unanimous decision victory over Eve Dicaire to become undisputed champion for the second time in Flint, Michigan, Shields’ hometown. 

Shields (11-0, 2 KOs) retained her WBC and WBO 154-pound crowns, took the IBF belt from Dicaire (17-1, 0 KOs) and won the vacant WBA “super” championship and called for another fight with undefeated British fighter Savannah Marshall.

The two-weight champion put in a dominant display infront of a limited capacity attendance of 375 people, keeping Dicaire on the back foot throughout and staking her claim to winning every round in a shut-out performance.

Shields was proud of her performance after the main event but revealed in a post fight interview, her dissapointment at not being able to find a stoppage in the late stages of the contest.

She said: "The scores were 90-100, I can’t be mad about it. But, you know, she just kept head-butting me and elbowing me. And I was trying to get the knockout. That’s really what I wanted, and I almost had it a couple times. But, you know, we got two minutes and then we got the ref breaking up the fight for 30 seconds when she’s holding and f-cking elbowing me and stuff.

“I’m happy, but I still wanted the KO, and I just didn’t have enough time. But at the end of the day, I am the new undisputed champion at 154, the first boxer to do it in history – undisputed twice. And I did it here in Flint, Michigan, so to all the people in Flint, I love y’all. Thank y’all for coming. Everybody who ordered the pay-per-view, thank you so much. Hopefully, I didn’t disappoint. I don’t think I did.”

Previous to her new crowning as undisputed 154-pound champion on Friday night, the two-time Olympic gold medalist prevailed in similar fashion against German middleweight Christina Hammer (26-1, 12 KOs, 1 NC) in April 2019 to earn all the belts at middleweight in her first step to history.

Shields called for another huge fight after her victory, firing a call-out towards Savannah Marshall, beckoning Eddie Hearn to 'pay her the money' and make the fight happen in the near future.

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