Two-time Olympic Gold Medalist Claressa Shields scored a unanimous 10-round decision over Tori Nelson on Friday night at Turning Stone Casino to retain her women’s WBC and IBF super middleweight world titles on a live Showtime telecast.
All three judges scored the fight 100-90 for the 22-year old Shields (5-0, 2 KO's), of Flint, Michigan. The 41-year old Nelson (17-1-3, 1 KO), who has won world titles in the past had only fought twice since June 2015, lost for the first time to the most highly skilled opponent of her career. Nelson, of Ashburn, Virginia, came forward the entire fight, but as the bout wore on the young champion proved to be the more skilled boxer, able to avoid Nelson’s looping hooks and using her jab to keep Nelson at bay.
Now that Shields retained her WBC and IBF super middleweight titles, she looks to move down to middleweight to challenge WBO and WBC middleweight champion Christina Hammer (21-0, 9 KOs) as her next opponent.
(Photos by Stephanie Trapp/SHOWTIME)
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