{"id":498586,"date":"2026-02-23T09:47:07","date_gmt":"2026-02-23T09:47:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/498586\/"},"modified":"2026-02-23T09:47:07","modified_gmt":"2026-02-23T09:47:07","slug":"claressa-shields-beats-crews-dezurn-to-retain-heavyweight-title","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/498586\/","title":{"rendered":"Claressa Shields beats Crews-Dezurn to retain heavyweight title"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;She was trying to cause an upset and got me with some shots. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;She&#8217;s a heavy-hitting diva and that&#8217;s one of the best fights I&#8217;ve been in my professional career, especially at 10 rounds. It was fun. I had to watch my ass every round.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;I think today I showcased my skills, my offence, my defence and body shots. I almost had her out in round seven, but she just wouldn&#8217;t go.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Shields beat Crews-Dezurn three times as an amateur and on their professional debuts in 2016.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"&#8220;She was trying to cause an upset and got me with some shots. &#8220;She&#8217;s a heavy-hitting diva and&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":498587,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[571],"tags":[64,63,802,85],"class_list":["post-498586","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-boxing","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-boxing","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/498586","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=498586"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/498586\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/498587"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=498586"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=498586"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=498586"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}