Claressa Shields is targeting a rematch with Costa Rica’s Hanna Gabriels after becoming the first women’s undisputed heavyweight champion in victory over Danielle Perkins.
Via scores of 97-92, 99-90 and 100-89 she also became the first fighter, male or female, to earn the status of undisputed champion in three divisions, as she also previously has at junior middleweight and middleweight.
At Dort Financial Center in her home city of Flint, Michigan, she dropped the 42-year-old Perkins in the 10th and final round, before saying on the subject of Gabriels, also 42 and who she defeated at middleweight in 2018: “It ain’t enough. That’s how I think. I think that I didn’t get my flowers for so many years so even though I’m getting them now, it’s like that’s not enough. I deserve more than that.
