Women’s Ratings Update: Shields reclaims P4P throne, Baumgardner joins in at No. 8

October promised to be a historic month for girls’s boxing, and it’s undoubtedly delivering on its promise.

In the primary combat of the previous two weeks, the girl that has claimed all alongside to be the best to ever do it notched one other signature win on her solution to cementing that declare.

Touring to England to face the one girl who ever defeated her, and in her yard as well, Claressa Shields defended her Ring middleweight belt with an excellent efficiency, and in doing so reclaimed the No. 1 place in our legendary pound-for-pound scores, surpassing Katie Taylor and returning to the place she had occupied when the scores had been created two years in the past.

“Claressa Shields placed on a unprecedented effort from the second the bell rang within the first spherical via the ultimate one,” mentioned historian Malissa Smith. “Marshall met her second with aplomb and by no means gave into the strain on her throughout the bout.”

“Shields gave Marshall a boxing lesson,” mentioned Argentina’s Yesica Palmetta, whereas her co-author of a historical past e book on Argentine ladies’s boxing Irene Deserti additionally mentioned that “Claressa’s efficiency was impeccable, from the bodily, the technical and the strategic factors of view. She knew that she couldn’t depart something to probability, she needed to give her finest in each spherical.”

Columnist Mark Jones mentioned that “Shields or Cecilia Braekhus, take your choose, is the best feminine boxer of all time.” Phrase ‘around the campfire says {that a} matchup between these two continues to be a chance, and that combat might lastly be the ultimate step in Shields’ profession towards claiming all-time greatness and etching it in stone.

In different information within the pound-for-pound scores, Mikaela Mayer’s loss by the hands of Alycia Baumgardner led to her demotion within the P4P scores to No. 9, with Baumgardner coming in at No. 8 and Savannah Marshall dropping all the way down to No. 10 to displace latest addition Yokasta Valle.

In different adjustments to the ladies’s scores prior to now two weeks:

Veteran Heather Hardy scored a win that allowed her to return to the light-weight scores, taking the No. 5 place from latest addition Maira Moneo.

Mikaela Mayer misplaced her Ring belt to Alycia Baumgardner, however stays No. 1 as a result of her glorious efficiency in a really shut combat. We’ll absolutely see the pair face off one or two extra occasions sooner or later.

Australia’s Cherneka Johnson survived an excellent nasty reduce on her brow to drop the legendary Ramadan and choose up an awesome win. With Dina Thorslund out as a result of inactivity on the weight, Johnson got here in at No. 4 within the junior featherweight division.

One week in the past, Gabriela Fundora’s win over Naomi Arellano was additionally deemed stable sufficient for Fundora to crash into the flyweight High 5 on the expense of Ibeth Zamora.