Boxing celebrity Claressa Shields has signed a “groundbreaking” $8m (£6.1m) promotional contract with Salita Promotions and Wynn Data.
The deal, which Shields mentioned on Thursday throughout an look on US tv spans two years, is essentially the most profitable within the historical past of ladies’s boxing.
The 2-time Olympic champion has gained all 17 of her skilled fights, together with a memorable and historic 2022 victory over Britain’s Savannah Marshall on the O2 Enviornment, and is at the moment undisputed heavyweight world champion.
In a press release launched with affirmation of the deal, Shields mentioned: “This deal represents greater than only a contract, it is a assertion.
Shields made an unforgettable entrance to the ring for her battle towards Marshall
“I’ve fought my whole profession to show that girls’s boxing deserves equal respect, equal pay, and equal alternative. Partnering with Salita Promotions and Wynn Data provides me the platform to maintain breaking boundaries inside and out of doors the ring. Collectively, we’re constructing one thing that is by no means been performed earlier than.”
The five-division world champion, who goes by the moniker GWOAT [greatest woman of all time], has labored with promoter Dmitriy Salita for a lot of her skilled profession, however had the chance to discover different choices after their earlier contract expired in July.
Salita instructed Sky Sports activities Information: “At the moment marks a groundbreaking step for girls’s sports activities and for boxing.
Over two million viewers tuned into Shields vs Marshall making it the most-watched girls’s skilled boxing occasion in historical past and creating the largest viewers for a dwell girls’s sport occasion on Sky
“Claressa Shields has signed a multi-year, multi-fight partnership with Salita Promotions and Wynn Data-the richest deal in girls’s boxing, with a minimal assure of $8m – pairing the GWOAT’s championship expertise with a powerhouse in music and tradition.
“This athlete-led collaboration units a brand new customary for the way fighters construct their careers, and I am proud we’re doing it with Claressa because the trailblazer.”
Shields’ most up-to-date bout was a unanimous-decision victory over Lani Daniels in July.
Unified welterweight champion Lauren Value is concentrating on a future battle with pound-for-pound celebrity Shields
The 30-year-old is anticipated to subsequent face Franchon Crews Dezurn, who she beat on her skilled debut in 2016.
In the meantime, unbeaten Britain’s welterweight world champion Lauren Value has repeatedly expressed hope of taking over fellow Olympic champion Shields sooner or later.
