One of the most highly anticipated female fights takes place this weekend as Hartlepool's Savannah Marshall faces Claressa Shield, with the middleweight pair continuing their storied rivalry.
Marshall inflicted Shields' only defeat of her entire professional and amateur career back in 2012 and the pair's careers have run parallel. This will be their first professional meeting, with their middleweight unification bout putting Shields' WBA, WBC, IBF, WBF, and The Ring female middleweight titles on the line against Marshall's WBO crown.
Double Olympic Champion Shields brings her titles to the UK to take on Marshall who has an unbeaten record so far in her career with a record of 12-0 and ten of those wins coming via knockout. However, she has only become world champion in the middleweight division while Shields has become undisputed champion across two weight divisions.
