That lopsided fight, Adler's first loss in 17 bouts, was stopped in the fifth round. Shields pummeled Nikki Adler last August to win the two super middleweight titles. The fight ended with a strong left hand from the champion. In the final round, Nelson was swinging wildly looking for a knockout, while Shields methodically landed punches to the head, missing a couple of big ones. Nelson did land a sharp body shot in the seventh round as she put Shields on the ropes and landed several more punches, but the 22-year-old Shields, who likes to boast she's the greatest of all time, managed to dodge most of the hard punches and landed a right hand that stunned Nelson and sent her backward. Nelson, of Ashburn, Virginia, took the fight to Shields at the outset, but as the bout wore on, the young champion proved to be the more skilled boxer, able to avoid Nelson's big hooks and using her jab to keep her foe at bay. The 41-year-old Nelson (17-1-3, 1 KO), who won a middleweight world title in 2011 but had only fought twice since June 2015, lost for the first time in her career. Two-time Olympic boxing champion Claressa Shields scored a unanimous 10-round decision over Tori Nelson on Friday night at Turning Stone Casino to retain her women's WBC and IBF super middleweight world titles.Įach of the three judges scored the fight 100-90 for Shields (5-0, 2 KOs), of Flint, Michigan, who was nearly 20 years younger than her opponent.

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