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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