Undisputed Middleweight World Champion and Michigan’s personal Claressa “GWOAT” Shields will make a homecoming return as she headlines the primary boxing occasion within the historical past of Little Caesars Enviornment in Detroit on Saturday, June 3 taking up four-division champion Hanna Gabriels in a rematch that can stream dwell on DAZN within the U.S. and Canada.
Shields and Gabriels will go face-to-face to preview the thrilling occasion at a press convention being deliberate for Tuesday, April 18 in Detroit. Further press convention particulars can be introduced.
Tickets for the dwell occasion go on sale Tuesday, April 18 and may be bought by means of 313Presents.com, Ticketmaster.com and the XFINITY Field Workplace at Little Caesars Enviornment. The occasion is promoted by Salita Promotions and 313 Presents.
The one two-division undisputed champion in boxing historical past, Shields will proceed to make historical past as she brings big-time boxing to the house of the Detroit Pistons and Detroit Purple Wings. The Flint, Michigan-native first confronted Gabriels in Shields’ sixth professional combat again in 2018, with Gabriels placing Shields on the canvas in spherical one with a vicious proper uppercut-left hook mixture. It stays the one time Shields has ever been knocked down as an expert or beginner and though she recovered to win an thrilling unanimous resolution, she is going to search for an emphatic ending to their rivalry on June 3.
“The ‘GWOAT’ is bringing championship boxing again to Detroit!” stated Shields. “After my historic victory over Savannah Marshall within the U.Ok., I needed a real homecoming combat within the U.S. I’m actually excited to headline the primary combat ever at Little Caesars Enviornment. Hanna Gabriels knocked me down in spherical one in our first combat and I’ve needed the rematch ever since to settle that rating. She’s a four-time world champ however she’s preventing the GWOAT, who’s a thirteen-time world champion and three-time undisputed champion. It is a massive, essential combat for me and can be one other nice combat for girls’s boxing. I’m able to defend my titles and win in dramatic vogue in Detroit!”
“I do know that Claressa is searching for the best adversary to placed on a Battle of the Yr-type combat that Taylor vs. Serrano was, so I’ve carried out my homework since our final encounter 5 years in the past and I’m a way more improved and harmful fighter now,” stated Gabriels. “Claressa and boxing followers can count on to see the very best model of Hanna Gabriels come combat evening. I knocked Claressa down in our first combat and I intend to do the identical in our rematch. Solely this time, she’ll keep down.”
“Claressa Shields is making historical past once more by opening up skilled boxing on the model new world class Little Caesars Enviornment within the coronary heart of Detroit,” stated Dmitriy Salita, President of Salita Promotions. “That is going to be a ‘HERstoric’ occasion in resurrecting the custom of big-time championship occasions in Detroit, in an electrical rematch towards present mild heavyweight and heavyweight world champion Hanna Gabriels. Tommy Hearns gained his first world title at Joe Louis Enviornment in 1980 and now in 2023 Claressa will electrify followers watching the combat on the enviornment and dwell on DAZN in USA and Canada.”
“As Detroit’s premier dwell leisure firm, 313 Presents is happy to carry boxing to Little Caesars Enviornment in partnership with Salita Promotions,” stated Howard Handler, President of 313 Presents. “Detroit’s boxing scene has a wealthy historical past that has produced and embraced quite a few champions, from Joe Louis to Sugar Ray Robinson to Tommy Hearns to Hilmer Kenty and now Claressa Shields. June 3 can be a historic evening for us and we’re thrilled to supply an action-packed evening of boxing again in Detroit.”
“We’re thrilled to have Claressa again on DAZN,” stated Joe Markowski, CEO North America DAZN. “This homecoming combat for Claressa is extremely anticipated by DAZN subscribers within the US and Canada. We will’t wait to have one other huge girls’s combat on the platform after making historical past with Taylor vs. Serrano final 12 months. Tune in dwell to DAZN June third for this very particular occasion.”
A two-time Olympic gold medalist all through her storied beginner profession, the 28-year-old Shields (13-0, 2 KOs) avenged her solely beginner defeat final October when she traveled to the U.Ok. to win the WBO Middleweight Title from Savannah Marshall through unanimous resolution. Shields’ final combat in her dwelling state of Michigan got here in March 2021 as she bested Marie Eve Dicaire to change into undisputed tremendous welterweight world champion, her second undisputed distinction after initially unifying all of the middleweight titles with a 2019 victory over then unbeaten Christina Hammer.
Representing her native Alajuela, Costa Rica, and promoted by DiBella Leisure, Gabriels (21-2-1, 12 KOs) first grew to become a world champion at welterweight in 2009, earlier than capturing the tremendous welterweight championship in 2010. She would go on to unify 154-pound titles with a TKO over Katia Alvarino in 2016 and adopted up her 2018 loss to Shields with two profitable 154-pound title defenses in 2019. Most just lately, Gabriels captured each the WBA Mild Heavyweight and WBC Heavyweight world championships with a second-round stoppage of Martha Lara Gaytan in April 2021.
