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Claressa Shields has no problems in the boxing ring, but she has a problem with her boxing career.
At 25, the native of Flint, Mich., has already won two Olympic gold medals, and gone pro to dominate over 11 fights, winning titles at super middleweight and undisputed championships at both middleweight and junior middleweight. She achieved the latter this past Friday, routing Marie-Eve Dicaire over 10 rounds and facing no significant challenge from the previously-unbeaten Canadian.
The problem isn’t that Dicaire is bad, and that wasn’t the problem with Christina Hammer, Ivana Habazin, Hanna Gabriels (who did score a knockdown on Shields), Tori Nelson, Nikki Adler, or Franchon Crews-Dezurn, against whom Shields made her pro debut in 2016. Crews-Dezurn has gone on to become arguably the best super middleweight in the sport with Shields moving down in weight, seeking bigger fights.