Claressa Shields - The Hero/Warrior
BOXING - 11-0 RECORD - WORLD CHAMPION
ARCHETYPE: THE HERO/WARRIOR
Day 16/135
Athletic Accomplishments
Claressa Shields is 11-0 in her professional boxing career. In her first 10 fights, she won world titles in THREE different weight classes: light middleweight champion, middleweight champion, and her latest win makes her the 154 pound champion of the world at super welterweight.
Shields also won gold at middleweight in 2012 and 2016 Olympics and is the only U.S. Olympian—of any gender—to win back-to-back gold medals in any sport for Team USA.
You want a piece of her?
Growing up in Flint, Michigan, Shields began boxing at age 11 and has become the “GWOAT” (greatest woman of all time) and self-proclaimed second-best fighter, behind Muhammad Ali.
She’s a fighter beyond the ring, too. Shields uses her voice to call out what she sees as wrong in the male-dominated sport. How networks don’t show or cover women’s fights enough. How they don’t pay women fighters enough. How the rules of their fights are degrading, with women’s contests being significantly shorter than men’s fights (women’s fights are 2-min x 10-rounds while mens’ are 3-min x 12-rounds) on the presumption that women can’t handle the longer fights.
Shields is not here to play. She’s here to fight and WIN.
Character Archetype: The Hero/Warrior
Claressa Shields is the undisputed champion of three different boxing weight classes and has won back-to-back Olympic gold medals. But if that’s not enough to know that she will kick your ass, wait till you see what she’s doing for the sport of women’s boxing.
In March, Shields was tired of waiting for TV networks to reschedule fights that had been postponed due to COVID. So, she called out their sexist decision to reschedule and broadcast men’s fights but not women’s. Then, she and her team went straight to the fans with a pay-per-view fight.
As a fighter, Shields is a winner in the ring. Not only does she work hard, but she is skilled and strong in ways that opponents can’t handle. She’s a fighter, through and through. And who’s going to win this righteous battle—her or Showtime? I’ll put my money on the one with an 11-0 record.