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World Boxing Federation (WBF) Womens
World Middleweight champion Claressa
Shields is set to defend her title
against former foe Hanna Gabriels on
June 3 at Little Ceasars Arena in
Detroit, USA. The fight will be
broadcast live by DAZN.
Costa Rica´s Gabriels, 21-2-1 (12),
is the only opponent to knock
Shields down, as she floored the
American in the first round of their
original encounter back in 2018.
Shields, widely regarded as one of
the best pound-for-pound, went on to
win a unanimous decision, but has
made it clear she is going for a
knockout in the second go-around.
Gabriels, a former WBA and WBO world
champion at Super Welterweight, went
on to win the WBA world Light
Heavyweight and WBC world
Heavyweight titles in the same
fight, when she stopped Mexican
Martha Gaytan in two rounds in April
of 2021.
Shields, 13-0 (2), won the WBF title
in February of 2022 when outpointing
then champion Ema Kozin in Cardiff,
Wales.
In October of last year she settled
the score with Savannah Marshall,
the only boxer to hold a victory
over Shields, having defeated her in
the amateurs in 2012.
Shields vs. Gabriels, the rematch,
for the WBF womens world
Middleweight title will be promoted
by Salita Promotions.
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