(JAN 2) WBO World Light
Heavyweight Champion Geovana Peres has called out the Undisputed
Unified World Middleweight Champion Claressa Shields on social
media.
Geovana Peres has achieved her
career goals in 2019 by becoming a World Champion and
successfully defending that title. Now she has a new goal in
mind and that is to take on Claressa Shields in a Super fight.
It has always been Geovana ultimate goal to fight Sheilds, but
now she has a World title of her own, she hopes to make that
dream a reality, even if she had to go down in weight.
“Claressa Shields had responded before the Lani Vs Geovana WBO
World title fight put on by (Rival Sports Promotions) that she
would fight either of the winners. Well time is now, team Pere's
wants the fight. Its 2020 let's make it happen.........”
Source:
facebook-link
Almost a year ago since Geovana vs Lani fight was announced with
both women commenting that their aim was to take on Claressa
Shields. Shields at first talked trash on Instagram in response
to an article on “Women of Boxing” website saying:
“You silly as hell. I’ll go to 175 and smoke they ass no
brainer, I’m just handling business at 160 right now, and I need
to get something at 154, but 168 and 175 is no problem for me. I
wonder where their big asses was at when I had two belts at
168??? I could barely find an opponent. That’s why I went down.”
Sources:
Instagram-Link Shields responding to:
womenofboxing-respnse from shields
Article about the response:
womenofboxing.com-response
Shortly after this Mark Taffett from Shields team contacted
us with an official response stating:
“It’s exciting to see these two champions – Geovana Peres and
Lani Daniels – want to fight each other to prove who is best.
Women’s boxing needs the best to fight the best in order to
begin to achieve the recognition with fans and ultimately
achieve equality with men’s boxing. I love their spirit and
their understanding that to BE the best you have to BEAT the
best, and that’s me.
So I applaud their desire to fight me in the future. I love
challenges, and I respect any woman who wants to challenge me to
prove her talent. Now, they are fighting at light heavyweight
and I’m currently at middleweight and want to fight Hammer for
undisputed, then I want to win a title in a third weight
division at 154.
But you never know what happens, and especially if these two
women can come down in weight I encourage them to have a great
fight between themselves and then let’s see what the landscape
is. Most importantly, they deserve great credit for wanting to
fight the best fighters in the world, and we need more of that
in the women’s game! I wish them the both the best in their
fight, and I hope they give a performance that will have all
boxing fans talking!”
Source:
womenboxing.com news story
Before and after Geovana vs Lani world title fight, Claressa
went to twitter and showed support and congratulated Geovana on
her win, but now has deleted her twitter account since.
Now that Geovana has put the message out there, it is now time
to wait and see if Clarresa Shields either response or if any
world title fight negotiations will happen after her
Super-Welterweight fight on 10th of January.