Detroit welcomes its favourite export back home tonight as Claressa Shields parades four belts into Little Caesars Arena for a ten-round appointment with New Zealand’s Lani “Smiling Assassin” Daniels. The Michigan crowd expects fireworks. Claressa Shields showed a little cheek at the weigh-ins, and the cameraman kept a keen focus on the booty.
Claressa Shields Gets Cheeky Weigh-Ins
Four sanctioning bodies have sent gold for inspection – WBA, WBC, IBF and WBO – and Shields guards the lot as the first fighter, male or female, to sweep three separate divisions. Victory keeps her unbeaten run at 17.