Claressa Shields says Savannah Marshall’s energy isn’t sufficient to defeat her, regardless of the British champion’s dramatic knockout win over Femke Hermans.
Marshall demolished Hermans with an enormous left hook on Saturday night time to arrange an undisputed middleweight global name conflict with Shields, who was once observing from ringside at Newcastle Utilita Area.
However her American rival insisted she was once some distance from daunted via Marshall’s damaging efficiency.
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Watch Savannah Marshall’s massive KO win over Femke Hermans
“Congrats, that is what you are meant to do,” Shields instructed Sky Sports activities.
“I stated that she would do this with Femke. I am not Femke Hermans, I am not Hannah Rankin, I am not any of the ones women she fought in opposition to.
“As a lot punch energy as she has, I am sorry to let you know, if that is what I were given to look ahead to, it’ll be a wipe out.”
Shields needed to accept a unanimous determination victory over Hermans, however she was once fast to show: “I went the space with Femke 4 years in the past. We fought 4 years in the past, early in my occupation.
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Shields says Marshall will want much more than energy to overcome her
“She’s [Marshall] going to have bother with me and she or he’s unquestionably no longer going to knock me out.”
Requested if Marshall was once the largest puncher in girls’s boxing, Shields stated: “No, she’s no longer, and also you guys are going to look that after I come again over in the summertime and display you that it’s a must to have energy, it’s a must to have ability. It’s important to have all of that.
“It is simply no longer going to take her one large punch to take care of me within the ring. It will take so much.
“Femke was once in a position to make her omit and I am 10 instances quicker than Femke, so what do you assume I’ll do?”
However Marshall stays assured that she’s going to silence Shields with a crushing loss, having halted Hermans so as to add a tenth stoppage in 12 victories.
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Marshall believes Shields won’t be able to take care of her explosive punches
“There is no-one else in the best way between me and Claressa, so it is me and Claressa in the summertime,” Marshall instructed Sky Sports activities.
“100 consistent with cent I do know Claressa cannot take care of my energy. I do know after I land on Claressa it’s going to be excellent night time.
“It is Nice Britain as opposed to The usa, it is at all times a perfect contention.
“It has got to occur right here within the north east.”
The place and when is Shields vs Marshall?
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Boxxer promoter Ben Shalom says Shields vs Marshall will occur this summer time
BOXXER promoter Ben Shalom is assured he can impulsively finalise a deal for Marshall to stand Shields, with the entire global middleweight belts at stake in Britain this summer time.
“It is very, very shut. In truth an issue of days,” Shalom instructed Sky Sports activities.
“We would like it to occur right here in Newcastle. That is the place it must occur. That is the place she’s [Marshall] constructed her fanbase, that is the place it merits to occur.
“Claressa has come over the entire approach from the States. She clearly needs it and it’ll be a vintage. An absolute vintage and I believe a milestone for girls’s boxing on the whole.
“We are taking a look at overdue June, early July now and 100 consistent with cent, I imagine it’s going to occur this summer time, hands crossed.
“I need it, everybody needs it, and we are operating relentlessly with Dmitriy Salita, Mick Hennessy and Peter Fury to ensure we put this battle on.
“We had to ensure Savannah were given thru this night and she or he were given thru in super model, so it’s going to occur, very, very quickly.”
