From ESPN
Claressa Shields successfully defended her undisputed heavyweight crown with a unanimous decision victory versus tough-nosed New Zealand native Lani Daniels at the Little Caesars Arena on Saturday night.
The judges scored the bout 100-90, 99-91, 99-91 in favor of Shields, who was on her A-game.
"She fought a hard fight, and I hit Lani with some big shots," Shields said. "I broke her to the body. I broke her down to the head. I mixed it up on her. Lani is just very, very tough, and I knew she would be tough just from watching her fights and I could tell she worked on her speed."
The victory marked the first time that Shields (17-0, 3 KOs) had fought twice in a calendar year since 2022. She said she welcomes all the big challenges going forward in her career, including retired champion Laila Ali and a potential showdown against welterweight champion Mikaela Mayer at 154 if they are seriously interested.
"I'm going to stay at heavyweight and hopefully get the big fights with Franchon Crews, Che Kenneally. I want to fight Laila Ali," Shields said. "We put up the $15 million for the fight and we ain't heard nothing back yet.
Lani Daniels RUNS AWAY from Claressa Shields while MOCKING her, then makes Shields MISS in ROUND 1 💨#ShieldsDaniels | #WomensBoxing | #Boxingpic.twitter.com/LlffKepyj4
— RINGOFHIGHLIGHTS (@ringofhighlight) July 27, 2025
The “GWOAT” does it again 🍿
— Ring Magazine (@ringmagazine) July 27, 2025
Claressa Shields made it look too easy in her undisputed heavyweight title defense vs Lani Daniels 👊 pic.twitter.com/CpdLf4Cr6r
Claressa Shields FULL POST-FIGHT vs Lani Daniels; SENDS Laila Ali NEW MESSAGE & TALKS WHAT’S NEXT #Boxing pic.twitter.com/kP2f6dO2Nc
— SYED SALMAN (@salmantheboxing) July 27, 2025
12 comments:
Go champ.
Keep winning Champ
Claressa is bad but Lani did better than I thought she would. Laila better stay in retirement because she don’t want no parts of Ms Shields. Maybe years ago, but not now. And Claressa is aching for Laila, she can taste that win.
Lala was never a REAL competitor… she mimicked her daddy her entire career. Clarissa is raw and authentic…you see they put the money up, and Lala all mouth and no smoke per usual
LA is too old for challenges. She has nothing to prove going back into the ring. She had her time and it's passed.
LD was running from those shots.
CS was seeing Remi Ma's face when she was fighting. She could beat the breaks off Papoose if he gets out of line. LOLO
Lots of casual boxing fans in these comments. Claressa is definitely the GWOAT, so why go after an old boxer? Laila Ali is 47 smh. Wishing her the best.
@12:29. Laila put herself in the mix when she said she’d come out of retirement if there was a $15-10 million offer on the table AND she had the nerve to follow that up by saying there wasn’t a real challenge out there. WTF?
She was baiting Claressa. Claressa said she respected Ali till said that mess. Claressa took the bait and has been waiting for Ali to show up or recognize Claressa as the champ she is.
GOAT or not, a bi’h needs to recongize. With all due respect from a casual observer.
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Laila has 21 knockouts. Clarissa has 3. She need to stay clear of Mrs. Ali.
This young generation delusional. I watched the ladies highlights for 10 and no way Claressa can beat Laila..like Laila said... she's not.smart enough. There's a science to boxing. If Claressa knew that she's be knocking her opponents out.
Watched them 10 minutes each...
Laila is damn near 50 years old. If she can outbox a young champ while going through menopause at the same time then more power to her.
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