Claressa Maria Shields vs. Marie-Ève Dicaire & Timur Sarabievich Kerefov vs. Maney Sherrod Woods RBR

Round 3

Dicaire is throwing straight fast southpaw flurries to fend Shields off, but to no avail. Shields just Terminators up to her, plants her feet and begins slamming down with rights behind aim-setting jabs. Dicaire hurt by the ropes, clinching now to clear the cobwebs. Dicaire bravely jumping in and throwing jabs and left crosses into the nose of Shields, throwing upwards of half a dozen shots before jumping out to safety again. Shields waiting, not taking advantage of all the countering opportunies she could exploit, but does bash Dicaire with an overhand right before the bell.

10-9 Shields

29-28 Shields

 

Stats after three:

Shields 119 of 353, 23%
Dicaire 10 of 77, 13%

 

Round 4

Dicaire is now using the four-corner defense, only engaging in spurts and on very limited terms, with reach-in 1-2-1-2s from a distance while strafing on tiptoe and then dashing laterally before Shields can haul up a counter. Dicaire is caught a few times but shakes it off, lucky that Shields throws so flat-footed and with poor leverage.

10-9 Shields

39-37 Shields

 

You know why I don't want Shields winning wide decisions? Why that's worst case scenario?

Because think of her ego already. Now imagine she begins to fancy herself a master boxer. Let her think she is a miniature chick Wilder. Powerful, athletic (not to mention a natural super middle beating up, in this case, a 154lber). But dear Hagler in heaven (er, Italy), please don't let her start comparing herself to SRL or anything in her next series of Twitter vomitory.