Savannah Marshall is fired up for round two of her verbal fisticuffs with Claressa Shields.
Shields will be ringside at Newcastle’s Utilita Arena on Saturday night when Marshall faces Femke Hermans and the unbeaten WBO women’s middleweight champ is expecting fireworks from the American. Marshall upset Shields when she told her “she would wipe the floor with her” because he was so unimpressed with her last win in February and she is expecting her to hit back.
The undefeated Shields holds the WBC, WBA and IBF titles and the pair are building towards a huge undisputed showdown in Britain in July. Marshall, 30, knows that clash could be life changing for her, but knows she must deal with Hermans first. “Claressa’s going to be there in attendance on Saturday,” she told Mirror Sport. “I’ve got a job to do with Femke, get her out of the way and then I can think about Claressa.
