Undisputed heavyweight champion Claressa Shields will drop down to middleweight to fight WBC and WBA champion Kaye Scott on 15 August at State Farm Arena, Atlanta.<\/p>\n
Multi-weight undisputed champion Shields, 31, is the most decorated woman in boxing history and will become the first female to headline at the 16,888-capacity State Farm Arena.<\/p>\n
Australia’s Scott, a highly decorated amateur, will defend both middleweight world titles that she won over Olivia Curry in December.<\/p>\n
“At this point in my career, every fight is about legacy,” said former middleweight world champion Shields.<\/p>\n
“Every fight now is about pushing the boundaries of what’s possible – for myself, for women’s boxing, and for the next generation coming behind me through Claressa Shields Promotions.<\/p>\n
“Kaye Scott is a champion, and I respect what she’s accomplished. But becoming undisputed at 160 pounds again starts with beating the best. That’s always been my mindset. I don’t chase easy fights, I choose meaningful ones.”<\/p>\n
In April, it was announced fellow Olympic champion Lauren Price, who was born in Newport, signed a two-fight deal to face Shields<\/a>.<\/a><\/p>\n Prior to that announcement, the 31-year-old defeated Stephanie Pineiro in Cardiff, where she and Shields exchanged words post fight.<\/p>\n Shields said “they could fight at the end of the year” after her then unnamed bout this summer.<\/p>\n The American described her next fight against 42-year-old Scott as not just “a championship fight” but an event to continue growing women’s boxing.<\/p>\n “Atlanta represents a huge opportunity. We’ve shown what women’s boxing can do in Detroit,” she added.<\/p>\n “We’ve sold out arenas and created moments people remember. Now it’s time to bring that same energy to Atlanta.”<\/p>\n Asked when the Price and Shields could face off, Shalom told BBC Radio Wales Breakfast: “Once in the US, and then hopefully once where we can come to either Cardiff City Stadium or (Cardiff) castle and do that in June next year.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Undisputed heavyweight champion Claressa Shields will drop down to middleweight to fight WBC and WBA champion Kaye Scott…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":656290,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[2560,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-656406","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\/656406","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=656406"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/656406\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/656290"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=656406"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=656406"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=656406"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}