FOUR-WEIGHT_WORLD_CHAMP___Claressa_Shields_vs._Vanessa_Joanisse_Fight_Highlights(18)
FOUR-WEIGHT_WORLD_CHAMP___Claressa_Shields_vs._Vanessa_Joanisse_Fight_Highlights(18)
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00:00We are ready for our main event, so let's send it back up to our MC, Pete Trevino.
00:10And now, ladies and gentlemen, Salida Promotions, 313 Presents and Eye of the Tiger, in association
00:17with Hotel St. Regis Detroit and Mark Taffet Media, proudly present your main event of
00:23the evening.
00:24This feature attraction has been reviewed and approved by Mr. Dimitri Salida and the
00:29State of Michigan Unarmed Combat Commission.
00:32The commissioner in attendance tonight is Mr. Don Weatherspoon.
00:37Your main event officials are as follows.
00:40The timekeeper is Joe Collins.
00:43Lead ringside physician is Dr. Mike Eldorani.
00:47The following contest is your main event of the evening, and it is for the women's WBF
01:01light heavyweight, WBO light heavyweight, and the WBC heavyweight world championships.
01:09WBC supervisor Frank Garza and WBO supervisor John Duggan are in attendance tonight.
01:18And now, ladies and gentlemen, the officials are ready.
01:22The fighters are ready.
01:24Detroit, Michigan, are you ready for your main event?
01:29It's time to go down.
01:34Introducing your main event fighters.
01:38First, fighting out of the blue corner, wearing the purple and silver trunks.
01:44Standing 5 feet 6 inches tall, she weighed in at 174.6 pounds.
01:51She comes to the ring with a record of 7 wins and 1 loss, with 2 of those big wins coming
01:57by way of knockout.
02:00Fighting out of and representing Quebec, Canada, ladies and gentlemen, here is the reigning
02:07defending women's WBC heavyweight champion of the world, Vanessa La Paz Joanis.
02:27And her opponent, fighting out of the red corner, wearing the pink and gold trunks and
02:32top, standing 5 feet 8 inches tall, she weighed in at 174.8 pounds.
02:40She comes to the ring with a perfect record of 14 wins and no defeats, with 2 of those
02:46big victories coming by way of knockout.
02:51Fighting out of and representing Flint, Michigan, here is the sport of boxing's greatest woman
02:59of all time, 2012, 2014, 2016 world amateur champion, 2015 Pan American Games champion,
03:10two-time 2012 and 2016 Olympic gold medalist, WBAN lineal super middleweight champion, WBC
03:22silver female super middleweight champion, IBF and WBC female super middleweight world
03:30champion, undisputed junior middleweight world champion, and the reigning undefeated, undisputed
03:40female middleweight champion of the world, the Grote Floresa T-Rex Shields.
03:57Referee Ben Rodriguez with main event fight instruction.
04:05All right, belt lines are good right where they are.
04:09You ladies received your instructions in the dressing room, so you know what I expect.
04:12A good, clean, professional championship fight.
04:15Obey my commands, protect yourselves at all times, touch gloves, God bless you both.
04:25We just heard the laundry list of achievements for the Grote Floresa Shields.
04:31It would seem that the trophy case is bursting at the seams.
04:35There's nowhere higher for her to go.
04:38Can Shields capture the WBC heavyweight title here tonight?
04:44Or can Vanessa La Paz Joanis shock the boxing world?
04:49Round one, this one's scheduled for ten.
04:53La Paz Joanis has a mission, and that is to get inside the jab of Floresa Shields
04:58and work the body early.
05:00That is her laser focus at this point.
05:06La Paz Joanis said she wants to be throwing and landing more body shots than anything.
05:13For Shields' part, she admitted that her punch outputs are not enough to get her
05:21that her punch output would dip a little bit here at heavyweight,
05:25both because of the added poundage, but also by design.
05:34I expected Joanis to attack a little bit faster than she is.
05:38She's weighing a little bit too much on Shields.
05:45Faint there, Paz Joanis.
05:50The reach advantage, which Corey pointed out is stark,
05:53given the fact that Shields is jumping up in weight, is significant.
05:58Yeah, and I think going back to your point, Alec,
06:00kind of necessitates La Paz Joanis having to swim underneath something
06:04if she wants to get the work done in the places where she wants to be.
06:11Good jab there from Shields and a right hand right behind her.
06:16Shields fighting very smart.
06:19Waiting on Joanis to come in and counter.
06:22Speed is power.
06:24She's confusing her with her speed.
06:26Joanis can't deal with the speed right now.
06:28That first left hook hasn't stunned La Paz Joanis.
06:35Joanis flurries at Shields to wrap up round one.
07:05Round two.
07:08♪♪
07:32♪♪
07:37Back live here in Detroit, Michigan,
07:40and this crowd is rocking here for Claressa Shields.
07:45Easy to forget that Shields is the challenger in this fight.
07:48La Paz Joanis, the reigning WBC heavyweight title holder,
07:52but she is in a hostile environment here in the Motor City.
07:59Left hook there from Shields.
08:01We start off round two.
08:05Nice triple jab by Shields and you see Joanis hold on to her.
08:09Shields is fast.
08:11That speed, Joanis can't deal with it.
08:14And down goes La Paz Joanis.
08:19♪♪
08:30Claressa Shields looking to close the show.
08:34♪♪
08:38Looks like the corner's trying to stop it here.
08:42The corner is up on the apron.
08:44This one might be over.
08:48The La Paz Joanis corner is trying to stop this fight,
08:52but it's already over.
08:54The Gloat is the heavyweight champion.
08:58♪♪
09:06Clarissa talked about sitting down on her shots,
09:09and we saw it there that first round.
09:11She threw a lot of flurries,
09:13but coming back in this second round,
09:15we saw how she sat down on her shots
09:18and showed the power and won the heavyweight title.
09:25I really think that first left hook
09:28that she landed against La Paz Joanis stunned her
09:33and set the tone for what followed.
09:36Listen, the talking point heading into every
09:39Clarissa Shields fight for the last several years,
09:42and frankly, it's been because
09:44she's been looking for competition,
09:46hasn't been able to find true competition all that often,
09:49has been, when will the power show up?
09:52The answer is when she moves up to heavyweight.
09:56And he showed it there.
09:58Made her miss.
09:59Came back with a 3-4 punch combination.
10:02There's Clarissa with her flurries.
10:05Really sitting down on that right hand.
10:11And in her last fight against Vidal,
10:15La Paz Joanis was hit with big punches by a big woman,
10:19did not go down.
10:20Tonight, she did.
10:29So Clarissa Shields gets the knockout
10:33that she's been wanting, that she's been promising.
10:37And she suggested that having gone through a training camp,
10:41not having to cut weight, just training,
10:43the weight will come off kind of naturally.
10:46This is where her power is carried,
10:49in this natural build, without having to cut,
10:52in some cases, more than 30 pounds for a fight round.
10:55Yeah, I agree.
10:56Making weight so much, weight makes you weak, you know?
10:59But I think it was a combination of that,
11:01and I think you heard her trainer, Julian Jackson,
11:05John David Jackson, talking about how she has been
11:09really working on sitting on those shots.
11:12And she said that her sparring partners felt that power.
11:16Their trainer, John David Jackson,
11:18felt it too when he was doing hand pads.
11:20And I think finally, you know, I've always,
11:22I've seen Clarissa grow.
11:24I've covered her pro debut, I've covered her on Showbox
11:27and Showtime a couple of times,
11:29and she used to throw a lot of flurries,
11:32but I've never seen her like this.
11:34She threw flurries in that first round,
11:36but I love the way she really capitalized on sitting down
11:39on those shots and getting that nice leverage
11:42and scoring a big knockout to win a heavyweight title.
11:46A world championship victory for Clarissa Shields,
11:50and next Saturday, Riyadh season continues
11:53in Los Angeles as Terrence Crawford
11:56challenges Israel Madrimah for the WBA and WBO
12:01interim world super welterweight titles.
12:04By now, on DAZN.
12:13What a moment for Clarissa Shields,
12:16getting the hardware, getting the WBC merchandise,
12:20also picking up, as we mentioned,
12:22the WBO's light heavyweight title.
12:25The 175-pound division has different names
12:28according to the sanctioning body.
12:30So technically, Clarissa Shields kind of pulls
12:34the Sugar Ray Leonard, Donny LaLonde two-division trick here.
12:38There you go, she wants it all.
12:39She wants all the titles.
12:42And she got them.
12:44All right, we are ready to make it official.
12:46Ladies and gentlemen, please put a big round of applause
12:48together for both of the fighters
12:50in the center of the ring.
12:54This matchup came to a halt at one minute,
12:57nine seconds of the second round
12:59for your winner by TKO
13:02and new WBF light heavyweight champion,
13:06WBO light heavyweight champion,
13:09and the new WBC heavyweight champion of the world,
13:16Scott Waltz, Clarissa T-Rex Shields.
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