Claressa Shields is one of only four boxers in history, female or male, to hold all four major world titles in boxing. She was the youngest boxer at the February 2012 U.S. Olympic Trials, winning the event. She went on to become the first American woman to win an Olympic gold medal in boxing. In 2018, the Boxing Writers Association of America named her the Female Fighter of the Year.
Claressa is thrilled by her own career and the opportunities that have finally come her way—including an upcoming feature film from Universal based on her life story—but seems even more thrilled about the future of the sport she loves, and the chance she has to positively impact up-and-coming female boxers. She is the subject of the biopic The Fire Inside
Claressa says, “You put in the hard work, you win. You slack off, you lose. So when I say boxing is the only thing that loved me back, I put in so much heart into boxing and guess what I did? I won. I keep winning because it loves me how I love it.”
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