No stranger to making history, Claressa Shields further separated herself from the pack with another title fight victory to open her 2021 campaign.
Shields (11-0) pitched a shutout against Marie-Eve Diclaire (17-1) on Friday to claim a 10-round unanimous decision (100-90, 100-90, 100-90) and become the undisputed world junior middleweight champion. She entered the contest as the WBC and WBO champion, and added Diclaire’s IBF title and a vacant WBA title to her collection with the victory.
This is the second complete set of world title belts Shields has won after previously claiming middleweight supremacy and she becomes the first boxer in the four-belt era to earn undisputed status in two weight classes.