Claressa Shields

Claressa Maria Shields is a professional American boxer as well as a mixed martial artist. She has a world champion in three different weight classes like the unified WBC and IBF female super middleweight (2017-2018), undisputed female middleweight title (2019-2020), and the undisputed female light middleweight title from March 2021. She is the only boxer to hold the four world titles in both male and female categories, such as WBA, WBC, IBF, and WBO.

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Biography and Early Life

Claressa Shields was born on 17 March 1995 in Flint, Michigan, in the United States. She is the daughter of Bo Shields and Marcella Adams. She has three siblings, namely, Artis Mack, Briana Shields, and Dusable Lewis.

Her father was an underground boxer and is the one that introduced Shields into boxing from a young age. He spent seven years in jail from the time she was two years and was released when she was nine. He never allowed her to pursue boxing until she was eleven because he thought it was a men’s thing. She met her coach, Jason Crutchfield, at Berston Field House, who encouraged her not to take restrictions because of her gender.

Age, Height, Weight & Body Measurement

So, how old is Claressa Shields in 2021 and what is her height and weight? Well, Claressa Shields’s age is 26 years old as of today’s date 2nd August 2021 having been born on 17 March 1995. Though, she is 5′ 10″ in feet and inches and 178 cm in Centimetres tall, she weighs about 166 lbs in Pound and 75 kg in Kilograms. Her eye color is Dark brown and hair color is Black.

Education

Shields attended Flint North-western High School and later Olivet College after graduating from high school. She made her first open-division tournament after winning in two junior Olympic championships. She participated in the National Police Athletic League in 2011, where she won the Middleweight title. In April, at the Women’s Elite Continental Championships, she won the weight class. She also won in the U.S. Olympic Trials.

She won a gold medal at the 2012 Summer Olympics and another one in the 2014 World Championship, becoming the first American to win the title in women boxing. She had an amateur record of 77 wins and one loss.

Personal Life: Dating, Boyfriends, Husband, Kids

Shields has been in two different relationships so far. Her first boyfriend was Ardreal Holmes, and they dated from 2013 to 2016. She has been dating Tony Richardson since 2017.

She was baptized when she was 13 years just two years after she joined boxing. She said that her Christian faith gave her strength, and she left home eventually.

Is Claressa Shields Lesbian?

No. shields is straight as far as sexual orientation is concerned. She is neither gay nor bisexual and has no such rumors. She has had two boyfriends and is happy in her current relationship and might lead to marriage.

Professional Career

Shields started her professional career in November 2016 and made it in her first match, which was against Franchon Crews-Deum. She then faced Szilvia Szabados on 10 March 2017 in the North American Boxing Federation for the middleweight title and won.  She faced Sydney LeBlanc on 16 June 2017 for her first scheduled eight-round bout, which she won.

She defeated Nikki Adler on 4 August 2017 on the WBC super-middleweight belt and also IBF super-middleweight belt. She retained the WBC and IBF titles on 12 January 2018. She then won the WBAN super middleweight title after defeating Tori Nelson. This was her first time to go for all ten rounds in her career. She made her sixth professional fight on 22 June 2018, defeating Hanna Gabriel with a unanimous decision and won the vacant WBA and IBF middleweight belts.

She became the undisputed women’s middleweight champion in the world on 12 April 2019with WBA, WBC, IBF, and WBO middleweight titles. In October 2019, SHE FOUGHT Ivana Habazin to take the vacant WBO junior middleweight title though it was postponed after her opponent’s trainer was attacked. The fight took place on 10 January 2020, where she won with a unanimous decision. She later defeated Marie-Eve Dicaire and retained her WBC and WBO super welterweight titles.

Apart from her boxing career, she has appeared in films like “Punch Me” and “Walmart” in 1018.

Awards

Shields has received various titles in her boxing career. She has also won awards like Nickelodeon Kid’s Choice Sports Award in 2017. She was inducted into the USA Boxing Alumni Association’s Hall of Fame in 2018. She was awarded Christy Martin Award in the category of Female Fighter of the Year by the Boxing Writers Association of America.

Net Worth, Salary & Earnings of Claressa Shields in 2021

Shields receives an annual salary of around $800 thousand, which sums up to an estimated net worth of $5 million as of 2021. She owns a luxurious car as well. She has earned her wealth entirely from her boxing career. She has also appeared in a few films, which has also boosted her wealth.

Some Interesting Facts You Need To Know

• In 2014, she had tried to adopt the daughter of her cousin.
• She is known to be an ambassador for gender equality in sports and especially boxing.
• She happens to be the first member of her family to get past high school level.

Claressa Shields is one of the greatest champions of all time. She has supported sports and had become an ambassador of Up2Us Sports. She has also taken the initiative of training youths for their sports development.