What a moment for women’s boxing, the first all-female pro card in the world.
It would have been nice had it gone ahead at The O2 as originally scheduled last month so that the sport could have paid its own tribute to the late Queen Elizabeth as others did. It is fitting that Claressa Shields should top the bill, a double Olympic and multi-division world champion.
Shields has lost only bout in her entire career, in the amateurs to her opponent on Saturday night, Savannah Marshall. It is the classic confrontation, a fast-talking box-fighter versus the reticent knockout artist. Shields brings the star quality and the bombast, Marshall the last word in power.
