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Boxing great Claressa Shields hasn’t stepped into the PFL Smartcage since October of 2021, where she suffered a decision loss to Abigail Montes.
It looks like fans won’t have much longer to wait to see Shields in the PFL again, because the boxer expects to be in the Smartcage again by April of this year.
“It’s looking like February or maybe April,” Shields told MMA Junkie Radio. “I’ve been training MMA with Murcielago Team in Lansing (Mich.) for the past few months, and I’ll continue training with them. I’ve been learning a lot. … I’m getting stronger in those fields that I’m not strong. I can’t say I’m strong on the ground, but I will be. I’m stronger than I was, so I’m just going to keep building from there. I’ve just been grinding and working hard, so I believe February or April you’ll see me back in the PFL SmartCage.”
Shields is 1-1-0 as a pro MMA fighter, with that lone win coming over Brittney Elkin in June of 2021.
The boxing great also wants to be known as the best fighter in the world, whether it is MMA, boxing and/or kickboxing.
“I love fighting,” Shields said. “I don’t like the fact that I have to say, ‘There’s other girls in MMA that can beat me.’ That kind of angers me a little bit, like, ‘Ugh, she can beat me in a fight because she knows more of the things that I don’t know. But she can’t beat me in a boxing match.’ But I want to be the best fighter in the world. It doesn’t matter if it’s MMA or if it’s kickboxing or it’s boxing. I want to be the best.”
