LAS VEGAS — Shakur Stevenson will try to win a championship in a third weight class Thursday, something that by itself would be an easy sell for a TV network and boxing promoter. That’s certainly what ESPN executives thought, and they wanted to tie in Stevenson’s fight against Edwin De Los Santos for the vacant WBC lightweight world championship with …
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American boxer Claressa Shields scored a unanimous points victory over Canada's Marie-Eve Dicaire on Friday to become the first undisputed world champion in two different divisions in the four-belt era. Shields, 25, retained her WBC and WBO light-middleweight titles, won the vacant WBA belt and also took Dicaire's IBF crown after all three judges at the Dort Federal Event Centre …
