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Training Camp Almost Complete; A Confident and On-Weight Claressa Shields Ready for Hannah Rankin DAZN Showdown on November 17

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Women’s superstar and two-division world champion Claressa Shields is in Florida with trainer John David Jackson, finishing up preparations for her showdown with Glasgow, Scotland’s Hannahh Rankin on Saturday, November 17, at the Kansas Star Arena and Casino in Mulvane, Kansas.

 

 

 

Scuta (6-0, 2 KOs) will defend her IBF and WBA World Middleweight Championships, and be looking to add the vacant WBC title, against Rankin (5-2, 1 KO) in the 10-round co-featured bout to Salita Promotions stablemate Jarrell Miller’s heavyweight showdown against Romania’s Bogdan Dinu.

 

 

 

Both fights, along with former world champion Brandon Rios taking on Canelo’s brother, Ramon Alvarez, in a super welterweight 10-rounder and former two-time world middleweight title challenger Gabriel Rosado going against once-beaten contender Luis Arias, will be broadcast live on DAZN.

 

 

 

23-year-old Shields, a former two-time Olympic Gold Medallist, has reignited interest in women’s boxing and become a ratings favorite for her nationally televised championship exploits. A proud native of Flint, Michigan, Shields mixes her brash pronouncements of greatness with a genuine and continued effort to inspire female athletes and render aid to members of her home community.

 

 

 

Shields was originally scheduled to face WBC and WBO World Middleweight Champion Christina Hammer on November 17, but the bout was postponed after Hammer withdrew due to medical reasons.

 

Did the change of opponents from Hammer to Rankin affect your training?

 

 

 

I don’t train for my opponents, I just push to get the best out of me, physice et mentaliter. If I’m the best ‘me,’ I don’t have to worry about who the opponent is. The change of opponents didn’t bother me at all; the worst thing about this camp for me was just all the date changes – constantly having to get my mind focused on the pace and timing of training depending on the fight date. I can’t wait to get in the ring!

 

You’ve fought at super middleweight 168 and recently at middleweight 160 libras. How is your training, diet and any other efforts different to make 160?

 

 

 

Training is always hard and I’m constantly learning. I’ve had a completely different diet this camp – a real change and a positive one for me. I’ve teamed up with Perfecting Athletes for my daily meals, and I feel great. I’ve always tried to eat healthy but these folks are pros and are more educated in that field than myself. I have this magic drink that makes my stomach smile – I love it! It’s watermelon mixed with a green vegetable. I’m not going to tell you what vegetable it is, but I’ve been drinking it everyday, and I feel GREAT.

 

Your viewership numbers have been very strong. Why do you think people are drawn to you?

 

 

 

I believe that people are drawn to how real and honest I am, turn et de corona. I say what I mean and mean what I say. I’m hard but I have a soft side also. And I think people are drawn to how I fight — not only do I talk a good game but I fight my a– off too! Dabo 1000% every time – I want to change the game and bring a whole new generation of fans to women’s boxing and boxing overall.

 

What do you know about your opponent Hannah Rankin?

 

 

 

I know that my opponent Rankin is very tough and determined to be a world champion. I like her drive, I like her heart. I know that she has been in the ring as a sparring partner for many champions, one being Christina Hammer. So Rankin has seen some good fighters. But one thing is for sure – she has never seen a fighter like me. And since Hammer couldn’t fight because of her medical condition, in many ways the next best thing is to fight and beat her sparring partner and let Rankin tell Hammer what she’s in for when she returns!

 

What needs to be done to solve the Flint water crisis?

 

 

To solve the flint Water crisis, I think that people should continue to give water and also keep it in the news that there is a city in America where, unbelievably, US citizens don’t have clean water. And hopefully the president or our governor do something to fix all the pipes.

 

What’s the secret to becoming the best of the best in any sport?

 

 

 

I believe the secret starts with believing in yourself, being dedicated, working hard and just always striving to be better. I feel I’m my biggest critic when I train and box. It’s hard to watch film of my fights because even though I’m doing 97 things right I just can’t stand to see the 3 things I’m doing wrong. I’m a person who strives to pull out my full potential. It takes guts to be great. Nothing will stand in the way of achieving my goals, which includes being the GWOAT and creating equality for all women fighters when it comes to the money, opportunities and coverage the men get.

 

 

 

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Women’s Superstar Claressa Shields to Defend IBF and WBA Middleweight Championships and Looks to Add WBC Belt Against Scotland’s Hannah Rankin, Live on DAZN on November 17

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On Tuesday, November 17, at the Kansas Star Arena and Casino in Mulvane, Kansas, superstar two-division women’s world champion Claressa Shields of Flint, Michigan, will defend her IBF and WBA World Middleweight Championships and be looking to add the vacant WBC title against Hannahh Rankin from Glasgow, Scotland.

 

 

 

The 10-round Shields (6-0, 2 KOs), and Rankin (5-2, 1 KO) battle will serve as the co-featured bout to Brooklyn-born heavyweight contender Jarrell Miller’s WBA World Heavyweight Championship showdown against Romania’s Bogdan Dinu.

 

 

 

These two fights will be broadcast live on DAZN, along with former world champion Brandon Rios taking on Canelo’s brother, Ramon Alvarez, in a super welterweight 10-rounder and former two-time world middleweight title challenger Gabriel Rosado going against once-beaten contender Luis Arias.

 

 

 

Shields was originally scheduled to face WBC and WBO World Middleweight Champion Christina Hammer on November 17, but the bout was postponed after Hammer withdrew due to medical reasons. Hammer has been named a champion in recess during her recovery. The two champions are now projected to do battle in the first quarter of 2019.

 

 

 

“Claressa is a once-in-a-generation athlete that transcends the sport,” said her promoter, Dmitriy Salita. “She will take another step in her goal to achieve the status of GWOAT as she makes the first defense of her middleweight world titles against the skilled and durable Hannah Rankin.”

 

 

 

A bonafide women’s superstar and TV ratings favorite, 23-year-old “T-Rex” Shields is a two-time Olympic gold medallist and already a world champion in two weight divisions. In her fourth professional fight, she won the IBF and WBC Super Middleweight Championships in August 2017 with a dominant stoppage of Germany’s Nikki Adler. Ergo, in June of this year and in just her sixth pro fight, she dropped down to 160 pounds and won the IBF and WBA Middleweight titles with an exciting unanimous decision over Hannah Gabriels.

 

 

 

“I’m so excited to be able to give my fans another chance to see me defend my championship this year and to have the opportunity to win the WBC middleweight title on November 17,” said Shields. “I appreciate the efforts of Salita Promotions, my manager Mark Taffet, and Matchroom Boxing in putting this fight together so quickly. I will be in great shape and will provide a great performance.”

 

 

 

“I want to thank Salita Promotions and Matchroom Boxing for providing Claressa with another chance to fight this year and an opportunity to attain a third middleweight world championship,” said Mark Taffet, manager of Claressa Shields. “Claressa is hungry and motivated to put on a great performance on November 17 on DAZN. Claressa has lofty goals and I have no doubt that she’s going to achieve every one of them, including fighting and defeating Christina Hammer early next year. I expect Shields vs Rankin to be an action-packed fight that fans will enjoy tremendously.”

 

 

 

28-year-old Rankin put in an impressive and brave performance while losing a challenge for Alicia Napoleon’s WBA Super Middleweight Championship in August of this year. Antequam, she picked up the WBC Silver Middleweight Championship with a dominant victory over Finland’s Sanna Turunen in June.

 

 

 

“I’m excited about the fight and proud to be representing Scotland on such a big stage,” said Rankin. “In boxing, nothing is impossible and on November 17, it will be just us in there when the bell rings and I think it’s going to be one hell of a fight.”

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WBA Super Middleweight Women’s World Champion Alicia “The Empress” Napoleon Defends Her Title Against Once-Beaten Contender Hannah Rankin Saturday, August 4 at NYCB LIVE, home of the Nassau Veterans Memorial Coliseum

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LONG ISLAND, NY (July 16, 2018) – WBA Women’s Super Middleweight World Champion Alicia ‘The Empress’ Napoleon, (9-1, 5 KO scriptor), of Lindenhurst, NY will make her first defense against WBC Silver Middleweight titlist Hannah Rankin, (5-1, 1 KO) of Glasgow, On Saturday Scotland, August 4 at NYCB LIVE, home of the Nassau Veterans Memorial Coliseum.

 

 

 

Scheduled for ten rounds, Napoleon vs. Rankin is a special attraction undercard bout on the stacked Premier Boxing Champions card headlined by the welterweight showdown between former world champions Andre Berto atque Alexander Devon on FOX and FOX Deportes (7:30 p.m. AND / IV:30 p.m. PT).

 

 

 

Nullam enim vivunt eventus,, which is promoted by TGB Promotions and DiBella Entertainment, es nunc in venditionem. Nullam comparari potest visitando onlinewww.ticketmaster.com, www.nycblive.com, aut in testem, 1-800-745-3000. Tickets are also available at the Ticketmaster Box Office at NYCB LIVE. Group discounts are available by calling 516-231-4848.

 

 

 

“I’m thrilled for this opportunity to be able to defend my world title for the first time on Long Island at NYCB LIVE,” said Napoleon. “It’s a special moment in my career and truly an honor to be part of the first women’s bout ever in this iconic venue.

 

 

 

“I know how good Hannah Rankin is. She just won the WBC Silver Middleweight Title and she’s taller than me with a longer reach, plus she just finished training with Cecilia Braekhus. I’ve been training the whole summer and I’ll be ready to defend my title on August 4.”

 

 

 

“I’m very excited to announce this women’s world title fight between Alicia Napoleon and Hannah Rankin on our stacked August 4 event at the Coliseum,” dixit Lou DiBella, Praeses DiBella Entertainment. “Alicia is a Long Island girl and a charismatic world champion with a legion of fans in the New York City area. She won her world title at Barclays Center and will defend it at NYCB LIVE. Hannah Rankin is a quality challenger from Scotland, who is well known for her ring ambition as well as her accomplishments as a professional musician. Women’s boxing in the United States and internationally continues to rise in popularity and our commitment to promoting it remains stronger than ever.”

 

 

 

The popular Napoleon, owner of both Overthrow Gyms in Manhattan and Brooklyn, won her world title on March 3 at Barclays Center in Brooklyn with a dominant ten-round decision over previously undefeated Femke Hermans in front of a huge contingent of supporters from both Long Island and New York City. Napoleon had a previous fight scheduled for June 21 postponed and has continued training in preparation to defend her world title.

 

 

 

Fighting in the paid ranks for just one-year, Rankin defeated then undefeated Sanna Turunen over ten rounds in June to capture the vacant WBC Silver Women’s Middleweight Title and her third straight victory headed into August 4.

 

 

 

A professional musician outside of the ring, the 27-year-old Rankin plays the bassoon and has traveled the world in recent years playing with numerous orchestras while also training and furthering her career in the squared circle.

 

 

 

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Certa Report: Pausat, Docherty Kelly praemunio WBU Crown as McEwan, Allan et Robb take Victory Laurels

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Photos Affabilitatem Armando Ferrari

 

Fecisse credendus PrcTOtor Thomas Melville fecit patet de omnibus his partibus videre, eius debut event on Saturday nox, etiam graviter major togatarum Adventante in eventu, possidet magnus trahit ex suis unum amitteret, priores WBO Featherweight rex Scott Harrison, a card iustus pauci weeks ante, cadunt in duas par-ups et arduam erectam ad spectaculum diebus, tamen quemquam Scotsman adhuc tractanda est producere excellent, aversos minor, event.

Sursum spectaculum erat Glasgow prioris Commonwealth Champion Craig Docherty contra uersus Dondalk, Hiberniae scriptor Michael Kelly vacanti World Boxing Union (WBU) Super Welterweight mundi title.

Aeris admodum electrica ostendunt duae protagonists fecit introitum in harena, fans occasio Scotorum hoc sciat facere certus vere specialis.

Mox a bell foramen pugilem fecit utrumque eorum intentio secunda quae limpidissima et pollicem pedis vsque ad bellum, anulum coepit centre sincerum.

Si me dicente ad pollicem pedis pollicem pedis vsque ad verticem dico, comminus cum agendi multum, essent ad invicem ut interdum non figitur cigarette inter chartas, adeo ut referendarius Moriartus Lee had non optavit, sed monerent eos about caput concurrit ex multis occasiones.

Nunc etiam tum essent ut neque vir close defensus, instrumentis commercia tam egregiam validissime showcasing, cum lubricum, uncinos, et superiorem cuts ex angulis.

Docherty curo ut fere secure primum copulabis ludorum, tantum adeo aequis uiribus gesta sunt, Tertia autem Kelly calcatae illud, faciens se paulum spatio creabat vere in forō in accessu et per amicos regios rip cum aciem inhoc offa ex singula excogitari angulus.

Docherty respondebat sanctimonia similar vein, tamen slickness of Kelly opus fecit eam sursum proelium pro Glaswegian.

Quater videre Docherty mutatio tactics, dum suis figito magnum impedimentum designare ad aperturas in ordinem ut rip cum aliqua vitiosa corpus shots, tamen Irishman prorsus videbatur, pudeat beatam dedendo ante exitiosi contortum valido rights conflictati, interdum et duplex utebatur imber.

Rotundum in circuitu quinque was a spectacular, protagonists tam suscitavit passum etiam ulterius, ad quae tandem aliquo terrore transactam commutationibus. Vere profiteri esset difficile iudicaretur, qui recte ageret si vel optimum vel outfought outworked altera, sic erat quod close.

 

More in sexta eiusdem, incedunt pueri puer oh eam primum duo minuta vel martello et forcipibus rotundi.

Ut horologium segetibus in final minute circumagi inhibe Docherty coepit Kelly up, ante letting rip cum fulmina velox ius quod occumbo Kelly sacco, sicut potatoes.

In instanti DISCEPTATOR Lee Moriartus ad caelestem opem eronae quassis in proelium navale, qui misit Docherty, fans in equis, et furori quam laetum.

Ut dicat, quod dicendum nisum turba auscultant, ut in geminatus gaudii pro Docherty pensabantur receptionis sunt facta per magnificum dedit Michael Kelly resurgéntis to his feet, haec uera fans, lucratus sed eorum pariter aestimabunt magnificum perficientur in eronae.

Ante Docherty coronatus novum WBU Super Welterweight Champion officiali tempore nuntiatum sistendis, duo minuta et novem secundis habeatur quasi sexta.

Main adminiculatur Docherty-Kelly title proelium ab set to be Edinburgh 's Craig McEwan contra Newport s Lee Churcher, Sed hoc non potest esse quod diversitas secundum resolvi in ​​pondere, ita quidam vivos tractatus led Notingham substructio Pugnator Coreana Václav Skromach ut serius nati sunt scripta in replacement.

McEwan started fortis, accipiens puerum pugna ad Czech, Skromach quamvis est non mug et a nice nitidos pugnator se et soon started letting rip ictibus sua.

McEwan started ad oppugnare in corpus, rediens ex aliqua incredibile angulos ad terram aliquo terrore exocets, Skromach adaequatum munimentis, sed distincte quidam habentes desideravit effectus.

Minutis duobus primis bene Skromach sed levaret inopiam introivit in orbem poenae ultimae iit McEwan corpore minutis, quod culmine cecidit in ipsum circulum mittere terribilis accipere genu Skromach.

Erat, vel graviter vitiosum iaculat, mirari se manere non potuit, ut nemo Skromach, Scotos egere fans porro ut hominis principale eventus victoriae stetit super pedes suos tum cum adsensu auditus Skromach.

Sistendum adnuntiatum officiali tempore circa primum duo dolores et viginti novem secundis.

Prior McEwan Skromach erat sex-rotundius, Aberdonensi harenosum et inter Robb Scunthorpe s Jody Meikle.

Robb started ieiunium, adhibendis a bonum dura figito et pedis Aharonis rights tollebant Lepidissima Meikle arcerentur, et in tergum pes vel ita scrupula prima, sed tunc Scunthorpe puer concurrentes proiectius, picking off Robb cum fregisset dextras.

In orbem ibat Robb coeperit etiam magis urgere, relicto Meikle non optavit, sed uteretur hit et movere tactics, maxime tempore haec habueris macula utrinque rarius Scotus viri occupaverant haec poteratque ad terram magnum dextera Meikle conatus elapsus range.

Secundo eiusdem More, turbæ autem tertio agere coeperunt Meikle, praesertim cum backed ad funes, cheekily dissimulando anulum card puellae vitatis shots.

Normalis servitium resumi quartus, Robb coepit interfecto eius anuli ne Meikle utilizing his Tycoon tactics, hoc euitato efficere ut Scotus cum nusquam mouet se ad Od Anglus non habebat sed option pixidem Id modo a funes, quae fecit in style.

Habitaverunt in posterioribus tertiae cum vehementius pugnaretur,, Samekle iterumque coepit ludere ad turbam:, sed in dong ita curavit quod hoc tempus illum et distantiae sufficienter iudicarent ne magnus looping ius Scotus adpulsu.

Ultima circuitu a cracker erat, Similiter in circuitu adhuc priore, cum Anglus Robb tergum onto funes ut Meikle lusit ad turbam, ab utroque pugilatu Lepidissima aliquam praestantissimam.

Post sex interesting, delectabiles rounds DISCEPTATOR Lee Moriartus laceratum IRCA 60-54 in favorem Robb.

Foramen IRCA de nocte sedis Rivals Gym prioris adunatam Mundi Kickboxing Champion Sam Allan in actione Downpatrick, Ireland rediit Marty pixidis.

Pugna dicent vere elit, protagonists tam suum dare omnia singulis, omni momento in circuitu, bellum vero non fuit royale subsisto.

Post quattuor excellent qui circumeant boxing DISCEPTATOR Lee Moriartus laceratum IRCA 40-37 in favorem Allan, multo Iocorum fans delectari.

Macte virtute et iugales Thomas Melville, hae non tantum vici et adversas perdentes co-bout Vivamus scelerisque ut ut a paucis of the scheduled inspectante, Optimum factu res tamen ad induendum.

Gratularis in ordine pro Craig Docherty, Qui nomen Hattonus Ricky similia, Graham Earl, Kevin Lear, Shea Neary, Tony Oakey, Wayne Yousif, Wayne Alexandri et legends of other British olim monitum becoming radiabant WBU Mundus Champion.