Defeat can enhance a fighter. Savannah Marshall can have discovered from her loss to undisputed champion Claressa Shields and might be again, better for a potential rematch, says her promoter Ben Shalom.
Marshall misplaced a unanimous determination in her middleweight with Shields on October 15. But their epic showdown was an occasion that befell on an unprecedented scale. It was the primary ladies’s bout to headline at London’s O2 Arena and drew in over two million viewers on Sky Sports.
BOXXER’s Ben Shalom promoted the present. He believes Marshall might be a better boxer for the expertise.
Lightweight champion Katie Taylor believes the historic all-female card of Claressa Shields versus Savannah Marshall represents a watershed second for the game of boxing
“It’s not something you can teach, that environment. Even for Lauren (Price) and Karriss (Artingstall) and Caroline (Dubois) [on the undercard] to get a taste of what women’s boxing can be at that stage, that’s invaluable experience. It’s a daunting thing. To be fair, I think Savannah took it all in her stride. So did Claressa. They’re just incredible. Given that they’d not been in that environment before, none of them, that was a first,” he advised Sky Sports.
“Savannah knows what to expect next time. She’s been through two fight weeks, she’s fought, she’s headlined, she’s now headlined at the O2. So we feel she now understands everything that can be thrown at her and she’ll feel very confident going into her next fight.”
Shalom believes Marshall might be better geared up to problem Shields in a rematch and that ought to happen in the near-term.
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“Savannah’s profile [after fighting Shields] has almost tripled or quadrupled. It’s incredible. She’s devastated with what happened. She feels she didn’t perform the way she could,” he stated.
“For me it’s good to see because she’s achieved a lot in the last 12 months and sometimes what you want to see is someone upset in defeat. Especially against Claressa Shields for her to be sat there thinking she could have done so much more is a good thing. It shows she’s a winner and shows her confidence in her ability in that she can perform against Claressa.
“She’s a winner. Despite her profile, regardless of the cash she’s made which was virtually unthinkable 18 months in the past, she’s devastated as a result of she believes she could have finished a lot better. She recognises Claressa got here in and we noticed a actually nice efficiency. Savannah, she feels maybe that wasn’t the perfect account of herself. Things did not move.”
For Shalom a rematch stays some of the compelling bouts to be made in the ladies’s sport and could occur in one or two fights’ time.
Straight after the their epic struggle, Claressa Shields praised Savannah Marshall saying ‘it was the toughest struggle of my profession’
“Claressa performed unbelievably, her gameplan was perfect and she was the better woman on the night and she was incredible. But Savannah knows she has a lot more to give and perhaps now that she’s been in there she probably feels that she knows exactly what she’s going to face,” he defined.
“They’re far and away the two most talented fighters both at middleweight and super-middleweight and even super-welterweight. I’m sure they will meet again. I think they’re going to meet again quite soon. Claressa loves fighting over here. We’d like to see her back over here. We have fighters in our roster that would love to fight Claressa Shields.”
Marshall could rebuild by transferring up a weight class to tackle Franchon Crews Dezurn, the undisputed champion at super-middleweight.
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“Immediately I think the rematch will be an obvious fight but it’s whether Claressa and Savannah could both have a fight [first]. Savannah could even fight Crews in a unification at 168lbs, which is a fight that I know Crews wants,” Shalom stated.
“Christina Hammer I know is another very, very good fighter and gave Claressa her toughest test other than Savannah, is another massive fight for Savannah. Savannah wants to get that chance again. She wants to prove herself.
“So Christina Hammer, Crews the unification or the Claressa rematch will come subsequent. Claressa will certainly be in considered one of her subsequent two fights, if not subsequent.”
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