Claressa Shields returns to motion tonight to face Danielle Perkins in the principle occasion of a DAZN-streamed present from Shields’ hometown of Flint, Mich.
Dwell protection will start at 7:30 pm ET.
The battle can be for the undisputed heavyweight championship, probably not a division that really exists in ladies’s boxing, and realistically extra of a advertising system as Shields (15-0, 3 KO) appears to develop into undisputed champion in a 3rd division.
The dominant 29-year-old can be an enormous favourite over Perkins (5-0, 2 KO), a 42-year-old southpaw who fought 3 times in 2020-21 after which not once more till 10 months in the past. She went 2-0 in 2024, and has been on two Shields undercards up to now. The step up in competitors for Perkins is big.
The undercard will function a 10-round heavyweight bout between Brandon Moore (16-1, 10 KO) and Skylar Lacy (8-0-2, 6 KO), amongst different fights.