Savannah Rose Marshall is a British professional boxer. She has held the WBO female middleweight title since October 2020. As an amateur, she became the first British female world champion after securing gold at the 2012 World Championships. Marshall remains the only boxer ever to have defeated Claressa Shields, the middleweight women’s gold medalist in the 2012 Olympics.
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Savannah Rose Marshall is a British professional boxer who has held the WBO female middleweight title since October 2020. As an amateur, she became the first British female world champion after securing gold at the 2012 World Championships. Marshall remains the only boxer ever to have defeated Claressa Shields, the middleweight women’s gold medalist in the 2012 Olympics. Marshall made her professional boxing debut at super-middleweight on the undercard of The Money Fight, in the professional boxing super-fight between undefeated five-division champion Floyd Mayweather Jr.
and the former UFC Lightweight Champion and Featherweight Champion Conor McGregor. She defeated Sydney LeBlanc by unanimous decision 40–36 in a four-round bout. In May 2016, Marshall qualified for the 2016 Rio Olympics, after reaching the semi-finals of the 2016 AIBA Women’s World Boxing Championships in Kazakhstan. A couple of weeks after her pro debut in Las Vegas Marshall decided to split from Mayweather Promotions on her own accord however said she had left on good terms.
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