Undisputed Middleweight World Champion and Michigan’s personal Claressa “GWOAT” Shields will make a homecoming return as she headlines the primary boxing occasion within the historical past of Little Caesars Area in Detroit on Saturday, June 3 taking up four-division champion Hanna Gabriels in a rematch that can stream reside on DAZN within the U.S. and Canada.
Shields and Gabriels will go face-to-face to preview the thrilling occasion at a press convention being deliberate for Tuesday, April 18 in Detroit. Further press convention particulars will probably be introduced.
Tickets for the reside occasion go on sale Tuesday, April 18 and might be bought by 313Presents.com, Ticketmaster.com and the XFINITY Field Workplace at Little Caesars Area. The occasion is promoted by Salita Promotions and 313 Presents.
The one two-division undisputed champion in boxing historical past, Shields will proceed to make historical past as she brings big-time boxing to the house of the Detroit Pistons and Detroit Pink Wings. The Flint, Michigan-native first confronted Gabriels in Shields’ sixth professional battle again in 2018, with Gabriels placing Shields on the canvas in spherical one with a vicious proper uppercut-left hook mixture. It stays the one time Shields has ever been knocked down as an expert or newbie and though she recovered to win an thrilling unanimous choice, she’s going to search for an emphatic ending to their rivalry on June 3.
“The ‘GWOAT’ is bringing championship boxing again to Detroit!” mentioned Shields. “After my historic victory over Savannah Marshall within the U.Ok., I wished a real homecoming battle within the U.S. I’m actually excited to headline the primary battle ever at Little Caesars Area. Hanna Gabriels knocked me down in spherical one in our first battle and I’ve wished the rematch ever since to settle that rating. She’s a four-time world champ however she’s combating the GWOAT, who’s a thirteen-time world champion and three-time undisputed champion. It is a huge, vital battle for me and will probably be one other nice battle for ladies’s boxing. I’m able to defend my titles and win in dramatic style in Detroit!”
“I do know that Claressa is searching for the best adversary to placed on a Struggle of the Yr-type battle that Taylor vs. Serrano was, so I’ve finished my homework since our final encounter 5 years in the past and I’m a way more improved and harmful fighter now,” mentioned Gabriels. “Claressa and boxing followers can count on to see the perfect model of Hanna Gabriels come battle night time. I knocked Claressa down in our first battle and I intend to do the identical in our rematch. Solely this time, she’ll keep down.”
“Claressa Shields is making historical past once more by opening up skilled boxing on the model new world class Little Caesars Area within the coronary heart of Detroit,” mentioned Dmitriy Salita, President of Salita Promotions. “That is going to be a ‘HERstoric’ occasion in resurrecting the custom of big-time championship occasions in Detroit, in an electrical rematch towards present mild heavyweight and heavyweight world champion Hanna Gabriels. Tommy Hearns gained his first world title at Joe Louis Area in 1980 and now in 2023 Claressa will electrify followers watching the battle on the enviornment and reside on DAZN in USA and Canada.”
“As Detroit’s premier reside leisure firm, 313 Presents is happy to convey boxing to Little Caesars Area in partnership with Salita Promotions,” mentioned Howard Handler, President of 313 Presents. “Detroit’s boxing scene has a wealthy historical past that has produced and embraced quite a few champions, from Joe Louis to Sugar Ray Robinson to Tommy Hearns to Hilmer Kenty and now Claressa Shields. June 3 will probably be a historic night time for us and we’re thrilled to offer an action-packed night time of boxing again in Detroit.”
“We’re thrilled to have Claressa again on DAZN,” mentioned Joe Markowski, CEO North America DAZN. “This homecoming battle for Claressa is very anticipated by DAZN subscribers within the US and Canada. We are able to’t wait to have one other huge ladies’s battle on the platform after making historical past with Taylor vs. Serrano final 12 months. Tune in reside to DAZN June third for this very particular occasion.”
A two-time Olympic gold medalist all through her storied newbie profession, the 28-year-old Shields (13-0, 2 KOs) avenged her solely newbie defeat final October when she traveled to the U.Ok. to win the WBO Middleweight Title from Savannah Marshall through unanimous choice. Shields’ final battle in her dwelling state of Michigan got here in March 2021 as she bested Marie Eve Dicaire to turn into undisputed tremendous welterweight world champion, her second undisputed distinction after initially unifying all of the middleweight titles with a 2019 victory over then unbeaten Christina Hammer.
Representing her native Alajuela, Costa Rica, and promoted by DiBella Leisure, Gabriels (21-2-1, 12 KOs) first grew to become a world champion at welterweight in 2009, earlier than capturing the tremendous welterweight championship in 2010. She would go on to unify 154-pound titles with a TKO over Katia Alvarino in 2016 and adopted up her 2018 loss to Shields with two profitable 154-pound title defenses in 2019. Most just lately, Gabriels captured each the WBA Mild Heavyweight and WBC Heavyweight world championships with a second-round stoppage of Martha Lara Gaytan in April 2021.
