The World Boxing Affiliation (WBA) congratulates undisputed middleweight champion Claressa Shields or group the ESPY Award for Greatest Boxer on the famend awards offered yearly.
The popularity was introduced at a pre-Academy Awards and Grammy Awards phase held Tuesday in Hollywood, California. However the official Espy ceremony will happen tonight in Los Angeles.
Claressa prevailed over different nice fighters comparable to Gervonta Davis, Devin Haney, amongst others, and raised the popularity of girls’s boxing, which is gaining increasingly more area because of the nice battles they go away within the ring.
Gold medalist in London 2012 and Rio 2016, Shields has continued her success within the skilled area with titles in a number of classes and excellent victories in opposition to the most effective fighters of this period.
The WBA congratulates the champion and thanks her for being one of many architects of the expansion and recognition that girls’s boxing has been gaining lately.
