The top 10 professional prospects to come out of Rio 2016

Michael Conlan
  1. Claressa Shields

Sooner or later a professional promoter is going to have to make serious effort to push womenโ€™s boxing. If Ronda Rousey can turn womenโ€™s UFC into an event, surely boxing can have the same. Shields is the perfect candidate to lead the sport forward in the US. Sheโ€™s aggressive, powerful, she wants to have a tear-up and fights like a pro. Plus she is Americaโ€™s first ever two-time Olympic boxing gold medallist. Why not stage Shields versus Savannah Marshall, who remains the only boxer to beat Claressa, a defeat Shields has never avenged?

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