Claressa Shields’ promoter is interested in matching his unbeaten champion with Amanda Nunes, too.

Dmitriy Salita told BoxingScene.com on Wednesday that Shields’ side wants that fight if UFC president Dana White was serious when he entertained the idea during an interview with TMZ Sports earlier this week. White said he isn’t “opposed to” matching Nunes, the Brazilian knockout artist who has won UFC titles in two divisions, against Shields, women’s boxing’s undisputed middleweight champion, in a boxing match.

“It would be one of the biggest women’s sporting events of all time,” Salita said. “With two of the biggest stars from combat sports fighting one another, it would certainly be a tremendous event.

“Combat sports is evolving and changing in many ways. With Mayweather fighting McGregor, and it being such a huge commercial success, I think this would be somewhere in line with that. And Amanda is really known for her striking. She’s not a wrestler. She’s a striker. That’s what would make that match so interesting.”

Weight would be one of the obstacles in the way of making a Shields-Nunes fight.

Nunes, 31, knocked out Cris Cyborg to win the UFC featherweight title December 29 in Inglewood, California. The featherweight limit for mixed martial arts is 145 pounds, but Nunes mostly has competed within MMA’s bantamweight division, which is limited to 135 pounds.

Shields, 24, will move down to boxing’s junior middleweight maximum of 154 pounds for her next bout. That’s still nine pounds above the highest weight at which Nunes has competed in MMA.

Finding a catch weight also has been a problem for Shields in trying to secure a showdown with undisputed welterweight champ Cecilia Braekhus (35-0, 9 KOs).

“Claressa is looking to fight all the best female boxers there are,” Salita said. “Her next target is Cecilia Braekhus. We’ve been talking, but when we reached out to her and talked about different weights and everything like that, there was radio silence. So, in all honesty, while Braekhus may use Claressa’s name, as far as actually fighting Claressa, I think it’s all just been talk. But Nunes, on the other hand, has shown that she’s a history-maker and wants to be in the biggest events. So, something like this, just in terms of both sides wanting it, is realistic.”

Shields (9-0, 2 KOs), a two-time Olympic gold medalist from Flint, Michigan, is recovering ahead of schedule from a knee injury that last month forced the postponement of her August 17 fight against Ivana Habazin (20-3, 7 KOs). Assuming Shields receives medical clearance early next month, that fight for the vacant WBO junior middleweight title will be rescheduled as soon as possible. 

Keith Idec is a senior writer/columnist for BoxingScene.com. He can be reached on Twitter @Idecboxing.