Comments Thread For: Claressa Shields Holds Off Savannah Marshall's Late Rally, Becomes Undisputed

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bull****. most of this site picked her to win. lol

must have missed that somehow, i thought everyone said she just had a punchers chance, which is all she had clearly, noone i know gave her a chance actually

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ESPN scored it 96-94 also.

So how can me having it a draw be wrong then?

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A draw? Lol you biased af sidney fight was never a draw, Claressa clearly won fight YDKAB..haha a draw..

Boxing scene and ESPN had it 96-94 to Shields. That's a difference of one round.

Where's your comment about the undisputed fights you were talking about? Where are you on the other thread too? Haven't got a list or something so you ran away? Typical. You don't like it when your fantasies are exposed do you. You run away instead.

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this fight was so easy to score that i didn't even score it. I just know that you couldn't give Marshall more than 3 rounds. Apparently, people were giving her rounds for the ability to take a punch and keep coming forward. Anyone with a brain knew this was going to be a one sided event. i knew since last year. I tried to tell these ****** mfers.

You didn't even score it???? Oh dear. Why am i not surprised.

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Seemed pretty obvious that Marshall was as even a commentator put it, spoiling her own work. Her posture was weird, leaning her head forwards, staying regularly in Shields range for shots. She nullified her own height and reach advantages entirely. She often started a combo like a zombie, too close to land clean hard shots and ending up in the clinch.

Horrible corner to have not picked up on it during the fight, or in camps.

Yeah i agree. Why Peter didn't tell her to create distance and use her jab and sweeping left hook is beyond me.

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Even if what you say is true, Marshall did even less and mostly threw arm punches because her stance is TERRIBLE and she's constantly squared up and learning off balance while throwing punches. 96-94 Shields was the correct score. Plodding forward and pawing with punches while getting hit with clean punches isn't enough to win rounds. Shields got tired towards the end and gave away a few rounds but Marshall did nothing noteworthy other than 1 right hand landed in an earlier round.

Edit: For the record, I think Shields is annoying as hell and I was hoping she'd lose.

Marshall shouldn't have smothered her punches by being so close. But she landed more than she missed. Couldn't say the same for Shields. I've watched it again and it's even worse the second time round. There's barely a clean landed punch.

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So you are gonna pretend that you didn't see Sav missing waaaaaay more than Claressa? Or had most of them blocked? Sav was CARTOONISHLY slow. The crowd was screaming, but she wasn't landing. She did rally back, somewhat, can't deny that but it was way too little, way too late.

Did you watch the fight on a bad stream or something? Claressa was the one missing most of her punches and having them blocked. She was just thrashing around with her arms. Sheilds started the better, but the pressure Sav put on didn't exactly do anything for Claressa's accuracy. Get a HD video of the fight and give it another go.

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It's interesting reading all of these comments. There's a lot of talk about the race card, and there seems to be split opinions as to who won.

Here are the facts:

1) Shields won clearly on points in a competitive fight.

2) Shields outclassed Marshall in the area of skills.

3) Even though Shields won on points, the fight could've still swung Marshalls way. You could tell that Shields was affected by Marshall's power. She had to dig down to avoid being stopped or dropped. She handled adversity like a champion.

4) I'm Black, and really did not care for Shields going into any fight. However, I felt she was the better boxer and would outclass Marshall.

5) The biography regarding Shields' actually humanized her a bit in my eyes. She also seems to have handlers working on improving her image

6) She handled herself like a class act on fight night.

7) She, along with Alycia Baumgardner were class acts. They were very entertaining (their ring entrances were stellar), and they fought excellent fights.

8) They were both heavily booed by the British crowd - not soley because of their personalities, but because they are Black.

Folks hate to admit that race often is a factor.

However if you watched the fights, the reaction of the crowd, and read all of these comments - it would be impossible to ignore that race is a factor. It is.

Unfortunately, this is what our world is.

You're pushing a narrative that the British crowd booed due to colour? GTFOH. Claressa was booed because she's extreme. Alycia was booed because they thought Mayer won the fight. Nothing more. Don't push your insanity the same way Claressa does. That's the reason so many can't stand her. I'm one of them.

For the record, i had Alycia winning the fight 6-3 and 1 even. The crowd got it wrong. Some are even online saying they got it wrong after watching for the second time.

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Cope lil boy, cope! Shields dominated that overrated euro bum. First Josh warrington, then Anthony Joshua, and now egg-on-my face Marshall: do you British chumps actually have anyone over there that isn’t overrated, and can actually box? Doesn’t look like it

Warrington had been out of the ring for 17 months against an active fighter. Joshua lost to a great fighter in Usyk. If losing to a great fighter is being overrated, tell me how many Americans today have beaten one? You can't. They lose to fighters nowhere near to that level. Then look at American fighters throughout history and look at all the fighters who lost to those much lesser than an Usyk. AJ has a superior resume to any American out there. He fights much better fighters than you lot do. It's why you're so scared in stepping up. You know the show is over if you do.

Mall Charlo lost to a few days notice Korobov but got the robbery.
Mell Charlo lost the first fight to Catano only for a robbery. Lost to Harrison. Lost to Martirosyan but got a robbery there too.
Porter lost to Brook, Ugas (Robbery) Crawford and Diaz (Another robbery)
Spence lost to Porter (Robbery)
Wilder lost to Fury 3x.
Thurman lost to a finished Manny, Porter (Robbery).
Danny Garcia couldn't stop losing.
Lubin lost to Charlo and Fundora.

I mean, it doesn't take much to beat you. That's why you duck everyone. You fight the best, you lose every time near enough. You get a couple of world class wins before you're sent packing. How many Americans can you name with more than a couple of world class wins?

We beat you the vast majority of the time. Any other scrip is delusional.

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Shields won, end of story, but cope some more for us! Lmao , listen, u back a British fighter, and they always fall flat on their face instead of rising to the ocassion! That’s on you, it was so easy for shields, marshal won 2 rounds. That’s it

They rise to the occasion the vast majority of the time against you. Why do you think on average we have the best achievements in the sport? Your fighters are the hype jobs. They have no substance behind them. No quality wins. It is just in fact, hype. You say how good they are without them ever proving it. It's why you have the worse resumes in the sport alongside Mexico.

Prove me wrong? You can't.