Shields-Hammer “A Big Step Up For Women’s Boxing”

By: Sean Crose
“I'm just ready to beat Christina Hammer up and make her shut up.”
So said Claressa Shields, two time Olympic Gold medalist and current IBF, WBA, and WBC women's middleweight champion. Shields was on a conference call to promote this Saturday night's title unification bout against WBO middleweight champion Christina Hammer. The bout is being promoted as the biggest women's fight in boxing history. That may or may not be true, but the 8-0 Shields, and the 24-0 longtime