(JULY 3) After this recent fight between Savannah Marshall vs. Franchon Crews-Dezurn, that took place on July 1, 2023, at the Manchester’s AO Arena, in Manchester, England---where Marshall defeated Crews-Dezurn, and winning all of her world titles belts by a ten-round majority decision---one of the biggest fights on the horizon would be: Claressa Shields vs. Marshall in a rematch.

The first time that Shields and Marshall fought which was out of the United States at the O2 Arena in Greenwich, Shields soundly defeated Marshall in a multi-world title bout in the middleweight division.

Shields had no problem defeating Marshall who had held on to a long term fact that she delivered an (only) loss to Shields a very long time ago. What she probably did not figure out at the time is Shields has become a P4P in her weight class and it appears there is not a fighter in her weight (neither middleweight, nor super middleweight) that can defeat her.

So now that Crews-Dezurn has lost to Marshall in a majority ten-round decision, winning Crews-Dezurn's world title belts that included the IBF, WBC, WBA, and WBO Super middleweight titles---the obvious huge fight should be in the United States, with a Shields vs. Marshall rematch.

Shields had no issue fighting Marshall outside of the USA the first time around, and still soundly defeated her.  It is only fair that in the rematch, that Marshall come over to the USA and fight Shields within her country.

In the meantime, after the Marshall-Crews-Dezurn fight, where judges scored the fight 95-95, 99-92, and 97-93, in what was not so highly regarded a stellar fight between Marshall vs. Crews-Dezurn that drew about 8,000 fans in an arena that can hold 21,000----Marshall called for a rematch with Shields who was at the event this night.

Marshall said, Thanks for coming over, let’s get it on at super-middleweight.” Marshall had said that she did not think she could make it as a middleweight---but would do it at super middleweight.

Shields who was interviewed on Sky Sports, responded with, “If Savannah comes to the USA, I’ll fight her at any weight. I already came over here and beat her up. If she comes to the USA she will get rocked in Detroit. She has a lot of weaknesses and didn’t learn from her last fight against me.”

WBAN would like to see the rematch between Shields and Marshall and feels it is one of the biggest fights on the horizon in the sport…but all we can say is, Marshall better be ready to fight her best if she decides rematch with the likes of Shields.