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Claressa Shields has an unrelenting desire to prove all of you wrongClaressa Shields was getting her hair done when we spoke. Not because she was celebrating the holidays. She was preparing for war....

Claressa Shields's Brother Charged With Assaulting Ivana Habazin's TrainerClaressa Shields’s older brother was the man behind the assault that forced promoters to cancel a fight between the former Olympic champion and Ivana Habazin, Genesee County Prosecutor David Leyton announced Wednesday. Artis Jaquel Mack, Shields’s 28-year-old brother, was charged with one count of a...

Boxer Facing Olympic Gold Medalist Quits After Taking Single Punch Middleweight boxer Claressa Shields won Olympic gold in London as a 17-year-old, and her subsequent career has found the Michigan native building a 43-1 record and claiming nearly every title available in women's boxing—save for the AIBA championship, competition for which is currently underway in...

World Boxing Council Shortens Female Matches Because Of Periods

The World Boxing Council recently issued a statement to the effect that it would no longer sanction any fight between female boxers that is scheduled to go longer than 10 rounds or any bout with rounds lasting longer than two minutes. Part of the reason they have made this decision is because ladies...

When Great Britain And Ireland Meet Up In Women's Boxing, You Can Bet Somebody's Getting The Snot Punched Out Of Them

Boxing's been an Olympic event since 1904, but you won't see any boxers from the olden days showing up under the Irish flag because back then Ireland had yet to recover its freedom. While things have calmed down somewhat since The Troubles, a sports rivalry will likely always exist between the Br...

Olympics Field Guide: The Embattled (And First-Ever) United States Women's Boxing Team

Names: Marlen Esparza, Claressa Shields, and Quanitta "Queen" Underwood...