Shields to fight Gabriels in Detroit at Little Caesars Arena

The Motor Metropolis has landed a giant punch to get again within the battle sport.

Claressa Shields will battle Hanna Gabriels for the ladies’s world middleweight championship on June 3, bringing boxing to Little Caesars Area for the primary time because it opened in 2017.

DAZN, which can carry the match stay, made the announcement.

Shields, who hails from Flint, Michigan, headlines the cardboard that may embody up-and-coming fighters from Michigan.

“Claressa opening up the constructing will endlessly be imbedded within the wealthy historical past of Detroit just like the Joe Louis fist in downtown,” Shields’ promoter, Dmitriy Salita, mentioned Monday. “This occasion will transcend sports activities due to Claressa, what she represents and completed as a younger lady from one of the crucial challenged locations within the USA, who believed in herself and made a constructive alternative on daily basis of her life when she was a child to be a champion.”

Gabriels, who’s from Costa Rica, turned the one opponent to knock Shields down earlier than dropping to her in 2018 on the Masonic Temple in Detroit. Gabriels is 21-2-1 as an expert.

Final October in London on the sold-out 02 Area, Shields avenged her solely profession defeat by beating Savannah Marshall with an unanimous resolution to turn into the undisputed ladies’s world middleweight champion.

Shields, a two-time Olympic champion, is 13-0 as an expert and misplaced to Marshall as an beginner in 2012.

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