History will be made on Friday when the first all-women’s boxing pay per view takes place in Flint, Michigan. Two-time Olympic gold medalist Claressa Shields will headline the card in her hometown when she takes on Marie-Eve Dicaire in a light middleweight unification bout. Shields (10-0 with two knockouts) has only lost once in her entire career, but Dicaire (17-0) might be her toughest test yet.
This card will be available on FITE TV for $29.95. Most cable providers will be offering an option to purchase the fight too through a third party.
When: Friday, March 5, 2021
Where: Dort Financial Center, Flint, Michigan
Why: WBC, WBO, WBA, IBF, The Ring light middleweight titles
Claressa Shields vs Marie-Eve Dicaire Betting Odds
Shields is going to be a prohibitive favorite per the boxing betting odds here. She is the most heralded female boxer since Laila Ali, and she has already won titles in three weight classes despite being just 25 years old. For those unfamiliar with betting on boxing, if Shields were a -2000 favorite, that would mean a $2000 bet on her would return $100 if she were to win. At that price, Dicaire would likely be around +800, so a $100 wager on the French-Canadian would return an $800 profit if she were to pull off the upset.
As the fight nears, there will be decision betting too. You will be able to bet on whether the fight is decided by KO, TKO, or decision, and you can bet on which boxer will win the fight in that fashion as well.
Claressa Shields vs Marie-Eve Dicaire Preview
Shields might go down as the greatest women’s boxer of all-time. She became a two-time Junior Olympic champion before she turned 16, and she went on to win Olympic gold medals in the middleweight division at the 2012 London Games and the 2016 Rio de Janeiro Games. The second gold medal made her the first boxer to ever win consecutive gold medals, so she turned pro at the age of 21 years old with nothing left to prove as an amateur.
Her first professional fight was certain to be a spectacle, so she was placed on the undercard of Kovalev vs. Ward back in November 2016. Shields went on to defeat Szilvia Szabados to win the NABF middleweight title, and she followed that up a few months later by beating Sydney LeBlanc for the WBC Silver super middleweight belt.
In Shields’ next bout, she took on Nikki Adler for the WBC and IBF super middleweight titles. Shields went on to record her second knockout, and she had no problem retaining those straps against Tori Nelson.
After those victories, she dropped down a class and beat Hanna Gabriel for the WBA and IBF middleweight belts. She went on to beat Hannah Rankin, Femke Hermans, and Christina Hammer to fully unify the division before dropping down again to face Ivana Habazin for the WBC and WBO light middleweight belts last January. Shields beat Habazin handily to claim a title in three different weight classes.
Dicaire didn’t start boxing until she was older than Shields is now. She was an amateur in 2012, and she worked her way up the Canadian amateur circuit. Dicaire turned pro in 2015, and almost all of her early fights were at the Montreal Casino.
Her first major title shot came in December 2018, and she made the most of it by beating Chris Namus for the IBF light middleweight belt. Dicaire successfully defended that title three times prior to this unification fight with Shields. The French-Canadian beat Mikaela Lauren, Maria Lindberg, and finally Ogleidis Suarez in the span of seven months in 2019, but she hasn’t entered the ring since those wins. Dicaire has yet to record a knockout as a professional fighter.
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