Boxer Claressa Shields prepares to take on Danielle Perkins as a heavyweight. She tells USA TODAY Sports the benefits of fighting at that level.

The real-life subject of the boxing biopic "The Fire Inside" says she has enough fire power to defeat Jake Paul in a boxing ...

The undefeated world champion boxer captured the newly acclaimed title with a unanimous decision victory over previously ...

Flint — Claressa Shields made history, and did it in her hometown.

Claressa Shields won gold medals at 165 pounds at the 2012 and 2016 Olympics, making her the first boxer from the United ...

Perkins withstood the assault and seemingly found more energy in the final three rounds and started landing powerful jabs and uppercuts on Shields, but eventually the aggression came back to bite.

FLINT — Claressa Shields is returning home to try and make more history. Shields, one of the most decorated female boxers ever, will be fighting for the first undisputed women’s heavyweight ...

FLINT, Mich. — Claressa Shields chose to fight in her hometown, a once-powerful city that has taken a series of hits, over opportunities to be the headliner on a boxing card in New York ...

I think it would be interesting to see Claressa Shields and Savannah Marshall in MMA. I’m very realistic, I thought it [Marshall’s debut] was ok. I think it would be interesting because both ...