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Boxing News Readers’ Awards: Female Amateur Boxer of the Year Number 3

Claressa Shields

Matt Christie

26th December, 2014

Boxing News Readers’ Awards: Female Amateur Boxer of the Year Number 3
Tom Hogan/Hogan Photos/Roc Nation Sports

AMERICAN middleweight Claressa Shields won the Olympic Games when she was only 17. Forced to sit out top flight competition last year due a change in the age restrictions, she was back with a bang in 2014. With fast, heavy hands she blazed through her opposition at the World championships to win her first World crown.

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Don’t miss the first issue in January for Boxing News’ choices for the best amateur boxers of 2014

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