As Claressa Shields made an appearance to officially announce an upcoming fight against Kaye Scott, some boxing media asked her for her thoughts on the recent super middleweight title fight between Boots Ennis vs Xander Zayas. Shields would say that while Boots has received a lot of criticism for what transpired in the third round, she believes he actually put on an amazing performance.<\/p>\n
\u201cI know everybody else commentary is the third round of the fight where Zayas supposedly hurt Boots and that\u2019s what they like to keep going around and saying,\u201d said Shields. \u201cBut for Boots to have no belts and go over there and fight a guy who says he\u2019s going to take his heart and he\u2019s going to do all this, he go over there – I like Xander, I do – Boots beat the dogsh-t out of him from the first bell, dropped him.<\/p>\n
\u201dPeople get hit in fights, that happens. See, to me, that is an A+ performance by Boots. You cannot discredit him. People so biased. They like \u2018oh, we want to give all this love to Xander…\u2019 but had it been flipped, like if Boots quit against Xander they\u2019d be calling Boots a quitter. But because Xander quit or got stopped against Boots they\u2019re all like \u2018Xander, he got so much heart.\u2019 Be fair and like give Boots his due. Right now at 154 he is the man and a big challenge for him will be Fundora.<\/p>\n
\u201cFundora is a big challenge for anybody because of how long he is and his height, but Boots has enough in his arsenal to beat Fundora, I feel, but he got to be very, very smart. He can\u2019t the same mistake he made getting hit with that straight jab and that right, he can\u2019t do that with Fundora.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"As Claressa Shields made an appearance to officially announce an upcoming fight against Kaye Scott, some boxing media…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":772065,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[447],"tags":[703,711,49,48,82],"class_list":["post-772064","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-boxing","tag-boxing","tag-boxing-news","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/772064","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=772064"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/772064\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/772065"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=772064"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=772064"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=772064"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}