{"id":23539,"date":"2025-07-25T20:28:07","date_gmt":"2025-07-25T20:28:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/23539\/"},"modified":"2025-07-25T20:28:07","modified_gmt":"2025-07-25T20:28:07","slug":"claressa-shields-on-weight-for-title-defense","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/23539\/","title":{"rendered":"Claressa Shields on Weight for Title Defense"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>famicommanderFri Jul 25, 2025, 7:59 PM UTC<\/p>\n<p>If that were true someone else would already have accomplished the feat. Fewer good fighters doesn&#8217;t mean zero.<\/p>\n<p>Brother MouzoneFri Jul 25, 2025, 7:33 PM UTC<\/p>\n<p>The bolded kind of makes the other points moot IMHO.<\/p>\n<p>famicommanderFri Jul 25, 2025, 7:06 PM UTC<\/p>\n<p>If she wins this she&#8217;ll have won the lineal crown at 154, 160, 168, 175, and heavyweight in 17 pro fights. I know the higher divisions of women&#8217;s boxing aren&#8217;t that deep, but that&#8217;s still absurdly impressive. She has completely cleaned out the 5 heaviest divisions in the sport (there is no women&#8217;s cruiserweight or<\/p>\n<p>Brother MouzoneFri Jul 25, 2025, 6:59 PM UTC<\/p>\n<p>:sleeping::sleeping:&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>famicommanderFri Jul 25, 2025, 6:44 PM UTC<\/p>\n<p>Made weight?<\/p>\n<p>Heavyweight is unlimited, even for the women. If they both came in under 175 then this should be a 175 lineal title fight, not a heavyweight title defense for Shields.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"famicommanderFri Jul 25, 2025, 7:59 PM UTC If that were true someone else would already have accomplished the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":23540,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[2560,8025,14909,101,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-23539","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-boxing","8":"tag-boxing","9":"tag-claressa-shields","10":"tag-lani-daniels","11":"tag-sports","12":"tag-uk","13":"tag-united-kingdom","14":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23539","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23539"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23539\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/23540"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23539"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23539"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23539"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}