{"id":309596,"date":"2025-12-10T21:26:14","date_gmt":"2025-12-10T21:26:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/309596\/"},"modified":"2025-12-10T21:26:14","modified_gmt":"2025-12-10T21:26:14","slug":"claressa-shields-to-face-franchon-crews-dezurn-in-first-fight-of-new-deal-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/309596\/","title":{"rendered":"Claressa Shields to face Franchon Crews-Dezurn in first fight of new deal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Claressa Shields will defend her undisputed heavyweight crown against fellow American Franchon Crews-Dezurn in February 2026 in her first outing since signing an $8m (\u00a36.1m) multi-fight deal.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Shields, 30, is one of women&#8217;s boxing&#8217;s biggest stars and rejected interest from Jake Paul&#8217;s Most Valuable Promotions (MVP) <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/sport\/boxing\/articles\/ce8gj9rk83do\" class=\"ssrcss-k8mrr8-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">to recently sign with Wynn Records and Salita Promotions.<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Her last fight was a win over Lani Daniels in July when she retained her WBO, WBA, IBF and WBC titles to remain unbeaten from her 17 professional outings.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Shields, who has won undisputed titles in three weight classes and is a two-time Olympic gold medallist, will fight 38-year-old American Crews-Dezurn on 22 February at Little Caesars Arena in Detroit.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">They fought in 2016 in what was the professional debut for both of them and Shields beat Crews-Dezurn by unanimous decision.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Crews-Dezurn has since gone on to become a super-middleweight world champion.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Claressa Shields will defend her undisputed heavyweight crown against fellow American Franchon Crews-Dezurn in February 2026 in her&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":308524,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[2560,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-309596","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-boxing","tag-boxing","tag-sports","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/309596","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=309596"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/309596\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/308524"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=309596"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=309596"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=309596"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}