Claressa Shields

Quick Facts

Full Name	Claressa Shields
Occupation	Boxer
Date Of Birth	Mar 17, 1995(1995-03-17)
Age	29
Birthplace	Flint
Country	United States
Birth City	Michigan
Horoscope	Pisces

Claressa Shields Biography

Claressa Shields is one of the most popular and richest Boxer who was born on March 17, 1995 in Flint, Michigan, United States. American professional professional who became the unification the world champion for two classes of weight in June. She holds the distinction of having two Olympic gold medals from the women’s middleweight division , in the 2012 London Olympics and the other from the Rio Olympics in 2016. Rio Olympics she is an original American boxer to earn consecutive Olympic medals, as well as one of the few American woman to earn an Olympic silver medal for boxing.

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After winning two Junior Olympic championships, Shields competed in her first open-division tournament, the National Police Athletic League Championships 2011; she won the middleweight title and was named top overall fighter and also qualified for the U.S. Olympic Trials. At the 2012 Olympic Trials, she defeated the reigning national champion, Franchón Crews-Dezurn, the 2010 world champion, Andrecia Wasson, and Pittsburgh’s Tika Hemingway to win the middleweight class. In April 2011, she won her weight class at the Women’s Elite Continental Championships in Cornwall, Ontario against three-time defending world champion Mary Spencer of Canada; she held an undefeated record of 25 wins and 0 losses at that point.

Following Shields’ victory at the U.S. Olympic Trials, it was initially reported that she would need only a top-8 finish at the 2012 AIBA Women’s World Boxing Championships in Qinhuangdao, China, in order to qualify for the 2012 Olympics. On May 10, the day after the contest began but before Shields’ first bout, a change to the rules was announced that meant Shields would need to place in the top two from the (North, Central, and South) American Boxing Confederation region of AIBA (AMBC). Shields won her first round, but suffered an upset loss in the second round on May 13 to Savannah Marshall of England, bringing Shields’ record to 26-1. Her chances for qualification thus depended on Marshall’s subsequent performance; after Marshall advanced to the middleweight finals on May 18, it was announced that Shields had earned an Olympic berth. At the 2012 Summer Olympics in London, she won the gold medal in the women’s middleweight division after beating Russian boxer Nadezda Torlopova 19–12.

The parents of her were Bo Shields and Marcella Adams. Three siblings are hers. Her mother was her maternal grandmother Joanne Adams.

Claressa Shields Net Worth

Claressa Shields is one of the richest Boxer from United States. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Claressa Shields 's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)

She began her training in the Berston Field House, in Flint at the age of 11 years old, along with Jason Crutchfield as her trainer.

The year she was born, the boxer took home an award from Nickelodeon’s Kids’ Sports Choice Award for the biggest powerhouse and in 2018, was admitted into the USA Boxing Alumni Association’s Hall of Fame.

Claressa Maria Shields (born March 17, 1995) is an American professional boxer. She has held multiple world championships in three weight classes, having reigned as the undisputed female middleweight champion of the world since 2019; the unified WBC and WBO light middleweight titles since January 2020; and previously the unified WBC, and IBF female super middleweight titles from 2017 to 2018. Shields currently holds the record for becoming a two and three-weight world champion in the fewest professional fights. As of May 2020, she is ranked as the world’s best active female middleweight and seventh best active female, pound for pound, by BoxRec.

Height, Weight & Body Measurements

Claressa Shields height 5 ft 10 in Claressa weight 75 kg & body measurements will update soon.

Who is Claressa Shields Dating?

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Shields is one of only seven boxers in history, female or male, to hold all four major world titles in boxing—WBA, WBC, IBF and WBO—simultaneously, along with Bernard Hopkins (2004–2005), Jermain Taylor (2005), Cecilia Brækhus (2014–), Terence Crawford (2017), Oleksandr Usyk (2018–2019), and Katie Taylor (2019–).

Facts & Trivia

Claressa Ranked on the list of most popular Boxer. Also ranked in the elit list of famous people born in United States. Claressa Shields celebrates birthday on March 17 of every year.

In November 2016, Shields officially went pro. She won her first match, against Franchón Crews-Dezurn, by unanimous decision.

How many losses does Claressa Shields have?

KO Wins2
Losses via KO| 0

Did Shields and Marshall fight?

Shields’s showdown with Marshall was one of the most anticipated fights of the year. The rivalry between the two fighters stretches more than a decade, when Marshall defeated Shields in an amateur tournament, the only loss of Shields’s boxing career.

What is Claressa Shields record in boxing?

Shields (12-0, 2 KOs) holds the WBA, WBF and IBF middleweight titles while Marshall (12-0, 10 KOs) is the WBO champion. Shields won the undisputed super welterweight championship last year and captured the undisputed super middleweight championship in 2019.

Who has beaten Claressa Shields?

Marshall remains the only boxer to have beaten Shields and for the American that unanswered defeat, burning red on her record, is still raw. They will fight once again, now as professionals, for all four of the major middleweight titles, at the O2 Arena in London on Saturday, live on Sky Sports.

Has Claressa Shields been knocked down?

During Round 1, she experienced the first knock down of her professional career. She dropped down from 168 pounds to 160 for the fight.