Muhammad Ali’s daughter Laila Ali supplied likelihood to combat Claressa Shields for undisputed heavyweight world title | Boxing Information
Claressa Shields has supplied Muhammad Ali’s daughter, Laila Ali, the possibility to combat for her undisputed heavyweight world championship.
Laila Ali is now 47 years outdated and hasn’t boxed competitively since 2007. However she did have a superb skilled profession. After making her professional debut in 1999, Ali would win a world title and went unbeaten in 24 bouts, profitable all however three of them inside the space.
Shields has been a trailblazing boxer, profitable two Olympic gold medals and world titles in a number of divisions.
The American is the reigning undisputed heavyweight world champion, the primary in girls’s boxing, and has challenged Ali to come back out of retirement to combat her.
“It is a actual provide – with venues, dates, and most significantly, the funding – to make this historic combat occur,” Dmitry Salita, Shields’ promoter, instructed Sky Sports activities.
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“Laila Ali, an ideal champion and the daughter of the GOAT [the Greatest of All-Time], versus Claressa Shields, the GWOAT [the Greatest Woman of All-Time], for the undisputed girls’s heavyweight world title.
“Muhammad Ali broke limitations and set information in his period, headlining the Struggle of the Century. Claressa Shields has shattered glass ceilings and set new requirements on this technology.
“A girls’s undisputed heavyweight championship bout between these two icons has the potential to be the combat of the century on this new millennium.”