{"id":930390,"date":"2026-10-12T15:36:09","date_gmt":"2026-10-12T15:36:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/930390\/"},"modified":"2026-10-12T15:36:09","modified_gmt":"2026-10-12T15:36:09","slug":"claressa-shields-targets-lauren-price-fight-in-early-2027-she-always-wants-to-fight-the-best-boxing-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/930390\/","title":{"rendered":"Claressa Shields targets Lauren Price fight in early 2027: \u2018She always wants to fight the best\u2019 | Boxing News"},"content":{"rendered":"

Claressa Shields is looking to fight Lauren Price in early 2027.<\/p>\n

Shields, a two-time Olympic gold medallist for the USA, is a multi-weight professional champion.<\/p>\n

Most recently she moved down from heavyweight to reclaim the WBA and WBC 160lbs titles when she beat Kaye Scott.<\/p>\n

Price is a unified welterweight world champion but as an amateur was a middleweight, winning Olympic gold at the Tokyo Games in 2021.<\/p>\n

Shields attended Price’s last fight and her promoter, Dmitry Salita told Sky Sports that she is in talks for a fight with the Welsh star early on in 2027.<\/p>\n

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\n Claressa Shields with Terence Crawford and Dmitriy Salita (right)<\/p>\n

“It’s a fight Claressa is seriously interested in. She flew out to Lauren’s fight earlier this year with that goal in mind,” Salita told Sky Sports.<\/p>\n

“It’s a fight Claressa is seriously interested in. Claressa always wants to fight the best, and a matchup with Lauren would be one of the biggest fights in women’s boxing – two Olympic gold medallists and world champions. We would love to see it come together.”<\/p>\n

Shields is looking to cement her legacy in the sport and reinforce her status as the best fighter in women’s boxing.<\/p>\n

“Claressa reinforces that status every time she steps into the ring,” Salita said.<\/p>\n

“From the beginning of her career, she has challenged herself against the best and made history along the way.<\/p>\n

“Our goal is to keep making the biggest and best fights, and Lauren is certainly a fighter Claressa would welcome that opportunity against.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Claressa Shields is looking to fight Lauren Price in early 2027. Shields, a two-time Olympic gold medallist for…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":930391,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[447],"tags":[703,49,48,82],"class_list":["post-930390","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-boxing","tag-boxing","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/930390","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=930390"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/930390\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/930391"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=930390"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=930390"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=930390"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}