{"id":1090,"date":"2022-02-06T11:35:25","date_gmt":"2022-02-06T11:35:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gosportsandentertainment.co.uk\/?p=1090"},"modified":"2022-02-06T11:35:25","modified_gmt":"2022-02-06T11:35:25","slug":"claressa-shields-new-wbf-world-middleweight-champion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gosportsandentertainment.co.uk\/?p=1090","title":{"rendered":"Claressa Shields New WBF World Middleweight Champion"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-full\"><a href=\"https:\/\/gosportsandentertainment.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/sm615.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"720\" height=\"432\" src=\"https:\/\/gosportsandentertainment.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/sm615.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1091\" srcset=\"https:\/\/gosportsandentertainment.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/sm615.jpg 720w, https:\/\/gosportsandentertainment.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/sm615-300x180.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 720px) 100vw, 720px\" \/><\/a><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>Claressa &#8220;T-Rex&#8221; Shields, from Flint, Michigan, USA, is the new World Boxing Federation (WBF) Womens World Middleweight Champion.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>On Saturday, February 5, at the Motorpoint Arena in Cardiff, Wales, Shields dethroned now former titlist Ema Kozin by unanimous decision.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The 26-year-old American star, a two-time Olympic gold medalist, also retained her IBF, WBC and WBA world titles in the process.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Using her outstanding boxing-skills Shields kept Kozin at bay for most of the fight, and never allowed the Slovenian southpaw to get close enough to land anything of significance.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>After ten rounds of boxing, judges Mark Lyson, Phil Edwards and Terry O\u00b4Connor all scored it 100-90 for Shields.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Shields, also an undefeated former world champion at Super Welterweight and Super Middleweight, improved her professional record to 12-0 (2).&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Kozin (23), who lost for the first time in the pro\u00b4s but still holds the World Boxing Federation (WBF) World Super Middleweight title, drops to 21-1-1 (11).&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Promoted by Boxxer, the fight was televised live in the UK by Sky Sports, and world-wide on various outlets.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.worldboxingfederation.net\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">www.worldboxingfederation.net<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Claressa &#8220;T-Rex&#8221; Shields, from Flint, Michigan, USA, is the new World Boxing Federation (WBF) Womens World Middleweight Champion. On Saturday,<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/gosportsandentertainment.co.uk\/?p=1090\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Claressa Shields New WBF World Middleweight Champion<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":1091,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,2],"tags":[287],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gosportsandentertainment.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1090"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gosportsandentertainment.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gosportsandentertainment.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gosportsandentertainment.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gosportsandentertainment.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1090"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/gosportsandentertainment.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1090\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1092,"href":"https:\/\/gosportsandentertainment.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1090\/revisions\/1092"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gosportsandentertainment.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1091"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gosportsandentertainment.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1090"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gosportsandentertainment.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1090"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gosportsandentertainment.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1090"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}