Dominant Shields stops Scott in return to 160, reclaims pair of titles
Pound-for-pound No. 1 draws 16,000 in Atlanta, remains undefeated
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When Claressa Shields left the middleweight division in 2023 she did so as the women’s undisputed champion.
Shields, the pound-for-pound No. 1 female boxer in the world, then moved up in weight and ultimately became the undisputed heavyweight champion, albeit fighting at 175 pounds.
But with little competition she elected to return to middleweight, where she laid a beating on Kaye Scott en route to a sixth-round knockout to take her WBC and WBA 160-pound titles in the action-packed main event of a Salita Promotions card on DAZN on Saturday night at State Farm Arena in Atlanta, where some 16,000 turned out to cheer Shields on.
Shields, a three-division undisputed champion and five-division champion overall, collected the 20th and 21st world title belts of her career and made it look easy as she joined a pair of male Hall of Famers in Roy Jones Jr. and Bob Fitzsimmons as heavyweight titleholders to move down in weight and win another world title.
“I came out here and showed why I’m pound-for-pound No. 1,” Shields said.
Before the fight was a long camp, which she needed to cut a dramatic amount of weight to get down to 160 pounds.
