Claressa Shields
Claressa Shields is a Flint-born boxing world champion and two-time Olympic gold medalist who shares training, fight nights, personal videos and music with her fans.
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Known for
- Undisputed heavyweight championship2025 · Defeated Danielle Perkins
Boxing - The Fire Inside2024 · Her life portrayed by Ryan Destiny
Amazon MGM Studios - Shields vs. Marshall2022 · Undisputed middleweight title victory
Boxing - MMA debut against Brittney Elkin2021 · Third-round TKO win
PFL - T-Rex: Her Fight for Gold2015 · Documentary subject
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Overview
- Born
- March 17, 1995 · Flint, Michigan
- Work
- Professional boxer, MMA competitor and online creator
- Started boxing
- At age 11, after her father told her about Laila Ali
- Breakout
- Olympic middleweight gold at London 2012, aged 17
- Professional debut
- November 19, 2016
- Nickname
- GWOAT
Mini bio
How it started.
Shields grew up in Flint, Michigan, and began boxing at 11 after hearing about Laila Ali from her father. At 17, she won middleweight gold at London 2012, becoming the first American woman to win an Olympic boxing title.
From Olympic gold to professional titles.
She won gold again at Rio 2016, becoming the first American boxer to win consecutive Olympic gold medals. Her professional debut followed in November 2016. In 2022, she beat Savannah Marshall at London’s O2 Arena to become undisputed middleweight champion again.
More ways to follow her.
Shields also competed in MMA, winning her PFL debut against Brittney Elkin by third-round TKO in 2021. Her life has been told in the documentary T-Rex: Her Fight for Gold and the drama The Fire Inside. On her own channels, she brings fans into training and life around the fights, and she released the single Party in October 2026.
Creditschronological, newest first
Film and documentary
- 2024The Fire InsideBiographical subject, portrayed by Ryan Destiny
- 2015T-Rex: Her Fight for GoldDocumentary subject
Music
- 2026PartyRecording artist
Sport
- 2025Shields vs. PerkinsWinner, undisputed heavyweight championship
- 2022Shields vs. MarshallWinner, undisputed middleweight championship
- 2021PFL MMA debut against Brittney ElkinWinner by third-round TKO
Awards
- Michigan Sports Hall of Fame2025 inductee, recognized for her amateur boxing career.
- Best Boxer ESPY2023 winner and the first woman to receive the award.
- Sportswoman of the Year, individual sport2023 winner, Women’s Sports Foundation.
- Two Olympic gold medalsWomen’s middleweight boxing, London 2012 and Rio 2016.
Quotes
This is how you turn your pain into power.Claressa Shields, TIME
Speaking about seeing her life portrayed in The Fire Inside in December 2024.
Trivia
- Her father’s stories about Laila Ali helped spark her interest in boxing.
- T-Rex was her nickname long before the documentary about her Olympic journey.
- She gave The Fire Inside an “A-plus-plus” when TIME asked for her movie grade.
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