defeated New Zealand\u2019s Lani Daniels<\/a> by unanimous decision on July 26 at Little Caesars Arena in Detroit. Shields is the only boxer, male or female, in the four-belt era to become the undisputed champion in three different weight classes.<\/p>\n\u201cIn 2016, I had just come off winning two Olympic gold medals, fresh out of the amateurs, and finding an opponent was tough. Franchon stepped in,\u201d Shields, 30, said in a statement. \u201cI\u2019ve grown a lot since that first victory, going on to win nineteen world titles, the ESPY award, and countless other achievements, but me and Franchon have unfinished business that needs to be settled. She\u2019s been poppin\u2019 it like she can whoop me in a world championship fight. We went four rounds in our pro debut, and this fight will pick up from round five.\u201d<\/p>\n
Crews-Dezurn, 38, last fought on June 6 and earned a majority decision victory over Citlalli Ortiz.<\/p>\n
\u201cI\u2019ve been waiting and working a long time for this moment, and we finally meet again,\u201d Crews-Dezurn said in a statement. \u201cThis time as established champions with great legacies. I\u2019m daring to be even greater by going up in weight, strutting into hell so I can create my heaven. I\u2019m a worldwide woman that\u2019s good in any hood and can\u2019t wait to give Detroit, along with the world, a great fight.\u201d<\/p>\n
The undercard will be announced at a later date.<\/p>\n
Salita Promotions announced on X that ticketing pre-sale begins Thursday, Dec. 11 at 10 a.m. on Ticketmaster by using the code \u201cGWOAT\u201d to purchase.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"FLINT \u2013 For her first fight of 2026, Claressa Sheilds will have a rematch against her professional debut…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":335398,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[447],"tags":[703,49,48,82],"class_list":{"0":"post-335397","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-boxing","8":"tag-boxing","9":"tag-ca","10":"tag-canada","11":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/335397","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=335397"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/335397\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/335398"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=335397"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=335397"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=335397"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}