The Claressa Shields-Savannah Marshall undisputed middleweight title fight and the Mikaela Mayer-Alycia Baumgardner junior lightweight unification title bout has been officially rescheduled for Oct. 15 at the O2 Arena in London.
The fight card, which is an all-female boxing event, was initially supposed to be Sept. 10, but it was postponed after the death of Queen Elizabeth II. In the postponement, a provisional date for Oct. 15 was initially given; it has has now been confirmed.
The decision on the initial postponement was made by the British Boxing Board of Control.
Shields (12-0, 2 KO) and Marshall (12-0, 10 KO) last fought a decade ago when they were amateurs — Marshall giving Shields the only loss of her boxing career. Since then, Shields has won gold medals at the 2012 and 2016 Olympics and has become a multi-division world champion.
Shields is also scheduled to participate in a Professional Fighters League card in November in a mixed-martial arts bout. A source tells ESPN that discussions of whether or not Shields will remain on the PFL card will be held after her boxing match with Marshall next month.
Mayer (17-0, 5 KO) and Baumgardner (12-1, 7 KO) have been setting up this fight on social media for close to a year with constant sniping at each other. They’ll be trying to unify their division with Mayer’s WBO and IBF and Baumgardner’s WBC belts on the line. The other titleholder in the division is Hyun Mi Choi, who holds the WBA belt.
British Olympians-turned-pro boxers Lauren Price, Caroline Dubois and Karriss Artingstall are also on the card, as is United States Olympian-turned-pro Ginny Fuchs.
Source: www.espn.com