Who will you be rooting for: Savannah Marshall or Claressa Shields?

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Who will you be rooting for: Marshall or Shields?

  1. Marshall

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  2. Shields

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  3. Neither, I just hope it's a good fight

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  4. I'm not interested in this one

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  1. Perkin Warbeck

    Perkin Warbeck Boxing aficionado Full Member

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    Not many good male boxing events coming up this weekend, but this womens' fight has many peoples' attention.

    Both are very talented female fighter. Marshall has the more exciting style, while Shields is an skillful defensive boxer.

    Who will you be rooting for?
     
  2. drenlou

    drenlou VIP Member Full Member

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    We never got Christy Martin vs Lucia Rijker, but ill tell you what this is probably as big as that fight ever was! It should be a classic! War Shields
     
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  3. CroBox29

    CroBox29 Boxing Addict Full Member

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    Savannah Marshall of course ❤️
     
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  4. CST80

    CST80 De Omnibus Dubitandum Staff Member

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    Savannah Marshall is someone I could actually bear being around for more than 5 minutes. So from a personal standpoint, she wins that competition in a landslide. Stylistically, she's far more aesthetically pleasing, so she takes it there too. Also, she's an exciting KO artist. Yet another reason to root for her. Quite frankly, I'm not sure how everyone isn't rooting for her. Shields is one of the most unbearable obnoxious people in the sport, she's literally impossible to like. Whereas Savannah is impossible to dislike.
     
  5. The G-Man

    The G-Man I'm more of a vet. Full Member

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    Who can honestly have any morale and root for Shields?
     
  6. RockyMarciano

    RockyMarciano Well-Known Member Full Member

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    Not interested in the fight.....however....I'd find it real hard to root for Shields.
     
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  7. vast

    vast Obsessed with Boxing Full Member

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    I'll root for Marshall. Seems the better blokess.
     
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  8. Brighton bomber

    Brighton bomber Loyal Member Full Member

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    I'll be rooting for Marshall, I enjoy her style and her fights. Rare to see a woman boxer, dismantle and KO opponents like her.

    Shields has gone the Mayweather route and adopted the villain persona as her style of boxing is one for the purists only. It's an obvious move but effective, she definitely does a good job of annoying certain fans, so no doubt she'll have a lot of fans against her.

    I'm expecting a close fight but Marshall's power and size to be the difference. Hopefully it's a good fight with some real drama as it's a good mix of opposing styles and maybe we even get a rematch of it's really close. Would love to see a competitive trilogy in female boxing one that garners interest from a wider audience.
     
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  9. navigator

    navigator "Billy Graham? He's my man." banned Full Member

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    I'm rooting for the bout to be a massive disappointment that generates little in the way of post-fight social media buzz and completely undermines the advancing of Sky's plans to push womens' boxing down the UK public's throats.

    If that means a W for Shields, so be it. She can then take her belts and go back to the US where she will continue to get short thrift from the networks due to established lack of audience interest.
     
  10. DoubleJab666

    DoubleJab666 Dot, dot, dot... Full Member

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    After the Weekend Shields won't have the 'W'... or the 'G'...'O'... 'A'... and 'T'
     
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  11. navigator

    navigator "Billy Graham? He's my man." banned Full Member

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    Karriss Artingstall might as well rename herself Karriss Lemonadestall and set up an actual lemonade stall outside her house, whereby she will attract more custom than will ever pay specifically to see her fight. 'Lemon' is Brit slang for a lesbian, and the lemon is a fruit that is as sour as Karriss and Lauren's faces, so it all makes perfect sense.
     
  12. JunlongXiFan

    JunlongXiFan 45-6 in Kirks Chmpionshp Boxing Predictions 2022 Full Member

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    I didn't mean to click Shields, I don't really care.
     
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  13. navigator

    navigator "Billy Graham? He's my man." banned Full Member

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    She hasn't. She actually came to Britain to make a good impression with her most saccharine, Serena-like false smile and her best bow and curtsy, then the Marshall girl started talking about wiping the floor with her and it all went out the window.

    Claressa isn't that calculating. She just is what she is, so far as her massive **** streak goes. If it was a heel act to attract viewers, she'd have given it up already since it got her nowhere in the US. As her Showtime fights got bigger, her ratings actually declined until she was dropped and left to ditz around putting on her own flop PPVs and sulkily experimenting with MMA.

    Maybe Top Rank/ESPN will give Shields/Salita a chance if she mops Marshall up. But the audience won't care any more than they ever did and her ratings will stink just like before.
     
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  14. miniq

    miniq AJ IS A BODYBUILDING BUM Full Member

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    If Tyson Fury called himself the gwoat I'd abandon him
     
  15. Rollin

    Rollin Boxing Addict Full Member

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    Savannah Fu-- I mean Marshall.