Alycia Baumgardner and Claressa Shields become undisputed champions

LONDON — Alycia Baumgardner (13-1, 7 KOs) is now one step nearer to turning into undisputed champion after scoring a razor-thin break up choice victory over Mikaela Mayer (17-1, 5 KOs) to unify the WBC, WBO, IBF and Ring Journal junior light-weight titles Saturday night at The O2 Area.

After a number of months of trash speaking, the 2 lastly squared off in a historic night time for girls’s boxing. Nonetheless, regardless of the heated exchanges exterior of the ring, Baumgardner initiated the bout by calmly boxing from the surface, utilizing her legs to maneuver left and proper when mandatory and countering Mayer’s offense with brief hooks and overhand rights round her guard.

Within the fourth and fifth rounds, Mayer began to get her rhythm and landed extra jabs and even landed a set of consecutive straight proper fingers. It was clear that the Olympian wanted to extend the depth of the struggle as a way to win some rounds. Nonetheless, Baumgardner acquired her second wind and commenced touchdown extra energy photographs within the later rounds, whereas Mayer landed extra jabs and occasional proper fingers.

Baumgardner gained with two scores of 96-95, whereas one choose noticed Mayer the 97-93 victor. Definitely, the scorecards demonstrated simply how shut the struggle was.

“I simply wish to first thank my lord, Jesus Christ, for blessing me and getting me by way of this second,” Baumgardner stated. “I labored my ass off to get right here. Like I stated earlier than, my steps had been ordained. I’ve claimed this. I’ve obtained it. I practiced this speech and what I used to be going to say.

“I landed the cleaner photographs. The tougher photographs. I had her minimize above her brow. I used to be the tougher puncher. I dug deep. That lady ain’t getting no rematch. I’m going after Choi [Hyun-Mi] like I stated. Undisputed is what I claimed. It’s what I’m going to do.”

Mayer stated, “I’m actually assured that I gained that struggle. She was defeated. I noticed it in her eyes. She was drained. She is aware of she misplaced the struggle. She was shocked by the choice. She acquired fortunate. I feel the group believes that I gained that struggle. I took management of the struggle from the second spherical on, for positive. On the very least, I gained seven rounds clearly. I felt like I had it. I hope that she offers me a rematch. I feel I deserve it, and I really feel that the followers desires to see it.”

Shields Defeats Marshall in Slugfest 

Claressa Shields is now a three-time undisputed champion, the primary individual to realize such a feat in both males’s or girls’s boxing. Shields defeated Savannah Marshall (12-1, 10 KOs) by way of unanimous choice to unify all of the belts at middleweight in an action-packed slugfest.

Marshall’s plans had been clear: overwhelm Shields, push her towards the ropes and land energy photographs. However Shields, who possessed extra velocity and accuracy, countered Marshall’s fixed stress with rights and lefts that had been thrown with all of her power.

Shields (13-0, 2 KOs) earned the win with scores of 96-94 and 97-93 2x, playing cards that demonstrated her superiority contained in the ring.

“I bit down in each spherical,” Shields stated. “In each spherical, it felt like she would hit me with an enormous shot, and I’d hit her with an enormous shot. If she hit me to the physique, I’d punch her to the physique. However I do know that I did essentially the most work immediately and that I used to be successful with my inside combos.”

In undercard motion:

Welterweights: Lauren Value (2-0, 1 KOs) scored a fourth-round technical knockout towards Timea Belik (6-7, 2 KOs). Time of stoppage: 1:18.

Lightweights: Caroline Dubois (4-0, 3 KOs) retained her undefeated report by way of fifth-round TKO towards Milena Koleva (10-15-1, 4 KOs). Time of stoppage: 1:53.

Featherweights: Karriss Artingstall (2-0) scored a call win towards Marina Sakharov (5-17-2, 3 KOs). Rating: 60-54.

Roberto Villa is the CEO, Founder, Govt Author, Senior Editor of FightBook MMA. Has a ardour for Fight Sports activities and likewise a podcast host for Sitting Ringside. He’s additionally a former MMA fighter and Kickboxer.