Claressa Shields, the undisputed queen of girls’s boxing, returns to the ring towards Maricela Cornejo on Saturday night time in Detroit.
CLARESSA SHIELDS (13-0, 2 KOS)
VS. MARICELA CORNEJO (16-5, 6 KOS)
When: Saturday, June 3
Time: 9 p.m. ET / 6 p.m. PT (fundamental occasion later in present)
The place: Little Caesars Area, Detroit
TV/Stream: DAZN
Division: Middleweight (160 kilos)
At stake: Shields’ undisputed championship
Odds: Shields 34-1 favourite (common of a number of shops)
Additionally on the cardboard: Ardreal Holmes vs. Wendy Toussaint, junior middleweights
Prediction: Shields UD
Background: The queen of girls’s boxing returns to the ring after arguably her most vital victory, a unanimous choice over the one girl to defeat her – Savannah Marshall – final October. She had been scheduled to struggle Hanna Gabriels on Saturday however Gabriels was pulled from the cardboard after she examined constructive for a banned substance. Cornejo agreed to step in on Thursday, though she had been on Shields’ record of desired opponents for a while. Shields is taken into account by many to be the very best feminine fighter pound-for-pound, significantly after rival Katie Taylor’s loss to Chantelle Cameron on Could 20. The one flaw in her file is an absence of knockouts, which is one thing the 28-year-old Michigander mentioned she has labored on within the gymnasium. Cornejo is a 36-year-old who lives and trains in Los Angeles. The WBO’s No. 1 contender has misplaced selections in three title challenges, as soon as towards 160-pounder Kali Reis and twice to 168-pound champ Franchon Crews Dezurn. Cornejo has gained three consecutive fights since shedding a choice to Alma Ibarra in March 2021. She has by no means been stopped.
