Claressa Shields makes boxing history as 1st-ever female undisputed heavyweight champion

Boxer Claressa Shields made past successful the ringing connected Sunday night. 

Shields dropped Danielle Perkins to go the first-ever undisputed women’s heavyweight champion. 

She is besides the archetypal boxer, antheral oregon female, to beryllium the undisputed champion successful 3 antithetic value classes successful the four-belt era. Shields did truthful successful inferior mediate value and mediate value anterior to this feat. 

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Perkins was undefeated up until the clip Shields landed a close hook successful the last seconds of the 10th and last round. That punch, which slumped Perkins for immoderate seconds earlier she walked to a country connected the canvas, cemented past for Shields. 

Perkins is present 5-1 for her vocation with two knockouts, portion Shields remains undefeated astatine 16-0 with 3 knockouts. 

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After the match, Shields was excited astir the win, but she revealed that she would really request enarthrosis country aft suffering an wounded earlier the fight. She noted not being capable to assistance her near limb earlier successful the week. 

"I really deliberation I'm going to person to person country connected my near arm. I tore my labrum past week, truthful the combat astir didn't happen," Shields said, via ESPN. "I didn't privation to fto Flint down, but I truly couldn't usage my jab the mode that I wanted to, but I did the champion that I could. I iced it, I did therapy, and present I deliberation I'm going to person a enarthrosis surgery."

Shields gave kudos to Perkins aft the match, saying she was "strong arsenic hell" with her punches successful the ring. However, Shields was diligent and struck astatine the past 2nd erstwhile Perkins’ defender was down. 

"My acquisition and my skills got maine implicit it and also, I've been successful plentifulness of thoroughfare fights with bigger radical and I had to usage immoderate of my skills successful that today, too. So, erstwhile I dropped her successful the past round, it's due to the fact that she got greedy," Shields said of her opponent. 

Shields landed 29% of her punches connected Perkins, arsenic good arsenic 36% of her powerfulness punches. Perkins landed conscionable 19% of punches. 

It was a unanimous determination connected the card, arsenic judges ruled the combat successful favour of Shields 97-92, 99-90 and 100-89. 

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