It will be a game-changer for women’s boxing.” I think people really want to see this and I couldn’t be happier that we’re going to do this live in prime time on Showtime, because it gives us the platform we need. You’re talking about an Olympic champion against a world champion with a lot on the line. “We’ve never had a fight like this before.
“Of course this is our biggest fight ever,” Hammer told Yahoo Sports. If there is one thing that she agrees with Shields about, though, it is this: Their fight will be a game-changer. It’s been frustrating, she said, to see so many talented women compete without getting the kind of recognition female athletes in other sports routinely receive.
For years, she hoped the day would come when women’s boxers would be given their due, and treated the same as women’s mixed martial arts fighters have been since at least 2013, when Ronda Rousey joined the UFC. She’s no shrinking violet - she’s a lingerie model and an online casino operator, in her spare time - and has opinions.
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She was calling herself the GWOAT - the greatest woman of all-time in boxing - after just her third pro fight. Shields’ persona is just like her style in the ring: Brash, come-forward, in-your-face, never quit. Shields is a lot more high-profile, both because she became the first American boxer, male or female, to win two gold medals as well as by the force of her personality. Hammer has quietly become one of the most significant boxers in her sport, compiling a 24-0 mark with 11 knockouts while competing the majority of her career in Germany.
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