Moments after her second-round TKO victory over Latashia Burton Saturday night at the Silver Eagle Group Arena in Ashburn, VA, multi-time world champion Tori "Sho Nuff" Nelson, along with ring announcer Henry "Discombobulating" Jones, relayed some big news to the standing-room only crowd.
Reportedly, Nelson's next bout will be against two-time Olympic gold medalist and reigning IBF and WBC Super Middleweight champion Claressa "T-Rex" Shields of Flint, MI. The bout is slated to take place on Friday, January 12th at the Turning Stone Resort and Casino in Verona, NY and is scheduled to be part of an Showtime Shobox telecast.
Shields (4-0, two KO's) won the IBF and WBC titles by scoring a fifth-round TKO over previously undefeated Nikki Adler on August 4th in Detroit, MI. Shields made her pro debut against another Beltway Boxer, Franchon Crews-Dezurn in November of 2016 and won a four-round unanimous decision. In a June 2017 article that appeared in the Detroit Free Press, Shields said the following:
“I always tell my promoter (Salita Promotions) that I want the girls with the (zeroes) on their records like Tori Nelson, (World Boxing Council super middleweight champion) Nikki Adler and (WBC middleweight champion) Christina Hammer because I feel I have the skills to beat them."
The last time Nelson faced a boxer of Shields's magnitude was when she knocked out legendary women's champion Mia St. John in the second round in May of 2014 in Annandale, VA.
If the bout comes to fruition, it will be the first part of a big Beltway Boxing weekend because former three-time world champion Lamont Peterson of DC is scheduled to battle Errol Spence for Spence's IBF Welterweight championship on Saturday, January 13th at a location to be determined. That bout will also be shown on Showtime.
2 comments:
Mia St.John is NO Two Time Olympic Gold Champion!
No, but her name is legendary among women boxers. She was a multi time world champion.
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