{"id":336341,"date":"2025-12-10T07:46:07","date_gmt":"2025-12-10T07:46:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/336341\/"},"modified":"2025-12-10T07:46:07","modified_gmt":"2025-12-10T07:46:07","slug":"boxing-shields-to-defend-undisputed-heavyweight-crown-against-crews-dezurn-the-mighty-790-kfgo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/336341\/","title":{"rendered":"Boxing-Shields to defend undisputed heavyweight crown against Crews-Dezurn | The Mighty 790 KFGO"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Dec 10 (Reuters) \u2013 Boxing\u2019s undisputed heavyweight champion Claressa Shields will defend \u200dher belts against Franchon Crews-Dezurn in Detroit in February next year in her first fight after signing \u200ca landmark deal, \u200corganisers said late on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>Shields, 30, is undefeated in her 17 professional bouts and became \u200bthe first undisputed women\u2019s heavyweight champion with \u200da win \u200bover Danielle Perkins \u200bin February.<\/p>\n<p>She signed an $8 million \u200dmulti-year deal with Salita Promotions and Wynn Records in November, which the promotion company called \u200dthe richest contract in women\u2019s boxing.<\/p>\n<p>Shields, a two-time Olympic champion, \u200dhas \u200dcrossed paths with \u200bCrews-Dezurn before, beating the \u200b38-year-old \u2060by unanimous decision \u200cin 2016 in what was both fighters\u2019 professional debut.<\/p>\n<p>(Reporting by Aadi Nair in Nashik, India; Editing by Thomas \u2060Derpinghaus)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Dec 10 (Reuters) \u2013 Boxing\u2019s undisputed heavyweight champion Claressa Shields will defend \u200dher belts against Franchon Crews-Dezurn in&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":336342,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[447],"tags":[703,49,48,82],"class_list":{"0":"post-336341","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\/336341","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=336341"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/336341\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/336342"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=336341"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=336341"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=336341"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}