American boxer Claressa Shields scored a unanimous points victory over Canada’s Marie-Eve Dicaire on Friday to become the first undisputed world champion in two different divisions in the four-belt era.
Shields, 25, retained her WBC and WBO light-middleweight titles, won the vacant WBA belt and also took Dicaire’s IBF crown after all three judges at the Dort Federal Event Centre in Flint, Michigan, scored the fight 100-90 in the American’s favor.
“I was trying for the knockout,” said Shield, who landed 116 punches to Dicaire’s 31. “That’s what I wanted. And I almost had it…at the end of the day, I’m the new undisputed champion at 154 pounds — the first boxer to do it in hist…
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