{"id":82762,"date":"2019-10-03T09:32:58","date_gmt":"2019-10-03T15:32:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/?p=82762"},"modified":"2019-10-03T09:36:54","modified_gmt":"2019-10-03T15:36:54","slug":"claressa-shields-ivana-habazin-press-conference-gets-heated-breaking-boxing-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/?p=82762","title":{"rendered":"Claressa Shields &#8211; Ivana Habazin Press Conference Gets Heated! &#8211; Breaking Boxing News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\">[AdSense-A]<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/?p=82762\" rel=\"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/?p=82762\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-82763 size-medium\" style=\"margin-right: 10px;\" src=\"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/shields-habazin-3-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/shields-habazin-3-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/shields-habazin-3.jpg 720w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>Unified middleweight world champion Claressa Shields and former world champion Ivana Habazin showed off their skills at a media workout Wednesday before they go toe-to-toe this Saturday night in a showdown for the WBO and WBC 154-pound world titles live on SHOWTIME from Dort Federal Credit Union Event Center in Flint, Mich.<\/p>\n<p>Tickets for the event, which is promoted by Salita Promotions, in association with T-REX BOXING PROMOTIONS, can be purchased at Ticketmaster.com and at the Dort Center box office.<\/p>\n<p>After her portion of the media workout, Shields, who fights in her hometown of Flint for the first time as a pro on Saturday, spent time with kids who participate in the gym\u2019s Downtown Boxing Gym (DBG) program for Detroit students ages 8-18. The gym currently serves over 170 students with mentorship and training programs. *More information on DBG is listed below.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Joining Shields and Habazin at the media workout were fighters competing in non-televised attractions Saturday including local super flyweight contenders Ja\u2019Rico O\u2019Quinn and James Smith, who will fight for the WBO International title, and Scotland\u2019s Hannah Rankin, who steps in against Erin Toughill in a super welterweight attraction.<\/p>\n<p>Here is what the workout participants had to say Wednesday:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Js0C1yWDIN4\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>CLARESSA SHIELDS<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt hasn\u2019t really hit me yet that I\u2019m actually fighting in Flint. Once everything happens at the press conference I think it will actually hit me. I hope that this fight shows people in Flint that no matter what we go through, Flint comes out on top.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHabazin has a good record and is ranked highly, so I know what she presents. I trained for nine weeks not to lose weight, but to be prepared for a tough match. I trained to come here and get the knockout. It should be a great fight come Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019ve been fighting for 13 years and I\u2019ve never missed weight once. If you have a fight at a certain weight class, you come on weight. That\u2019s just protocol. You do what you have to do. I\u2019m still drinking my water and eating. I\u2019m not starving myself to make weight.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s important every time to look better than my last fight. That\u2019s just my mentality so that I keep myself from doing too much but also doing enough. I looked superb in my last fight. I showed people that I\u2019m a complete fighter. I can\u2019t show less than that on Saturday. To me, that means I have to get the knockout.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI know that I\u2019m faster at 154-pounds. It\u2019s been a big jump for this one. I\u2019m Roy Jones Jr. fast for this one. I can drop my hands, throw punches and land them from any angle. This weight is beneficial for body. It fits me well.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019ve taken women\u2019s boxing to a place it hasn\u2019t been before, but it\u2019s not where it needs to be yet. I think that my performances are getting better and better and everything I do outside of boxing is helping to build me up as well.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI just want to get better every fight. I want to make sure that I show even more of everything that I did against Hammer. That\u2019s been my mentality since the amateurs.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>IVANA HABAZIN<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI had a very good, hard training camp. It was a four-month camp, which was the longest of my career. I had great sparring and I feel like I\u2019m in the best shape of my life.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFor this fight I\u2019m focused only on myself. This fight can change everything in my life. I can\u2019t tell you what\u2019s going to happen, but everyone will find out on Saturday night.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAnything is possible in boxing and I\u2019ve prepared for that. I\u2019m ready for a tough fight and I expect it. I\u2019m going all or nothing to win this fight.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI hope that she\u2019s going to make weight. I always make weight and I think that she\u2019ll make the weight fine. We\u2019ve both taken this fight very seriously. I have been very disciplined and had a great nutrition plan and I\u2019m already on weight.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI haven\u2019t even thought about her knee injury at all. I\u2019ve been injured before and I get in there and fight anyway. She\u2019s a fighter and even if she had some problems, I know those aren\u2019t going to be in her mind. The fight is too big to do that.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI can\u2019t think about what\u2019s going to happen when I win. I need to be only focused on this fight. Dreams and reality are two different things. I\u2019m here to give 100 percent of myself. I didn\u2019t come here to play games.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>JA\u2019RICO O\u2019QUINN<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019ve seen the same things everyone else sees when they watch Smith. He\u2019s straight up and down, straight forward with no special effects.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou have to tune in on Saturday night to see this one. I\u2019m going to look my best on this big card with everyone watching. My opponent better bring his \u2018A-game\u2019 because I\u2019m definitely bringing mine.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cTraining camp has been going great and everything feels good heading into this fight. I\u2019m going to be ready for anything in the ring and ready to go as many rounds as it takes.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>JAMES SMITH<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAt the end of the day, none of the talk matters. We have to fight. Nothing he says matters. He has to see me in that ring.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHis best attribute is that he has decent hand speed and a good punch output. He throws a lot of punches, but when he finishes his combinations, he\u2019s not making defensive moves behind it. He\u2019s sitting right there.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe got dropped twice recently by someone who can\u2019t punch. If I hit him with those same punches, he\u2019s not getting up.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMy plan is to go in there and stay smart. As long as I\u2019m smart and work behind my jab, I shouldn\u2019t have any problem. But I do want to bust him up. I don\u2019t want to knock him out, I want to beat him very very badly.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>HANNAH RANKIN<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhen I turned pro I said that I wanted to be the best that I can be. I have goals and I\u2019m motivated and my team is pushing really hard to get here. I\u2019m not surprised how far we\u2019ve gone, because I\u2019ve been putting the work in.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s fantastic to be on the undercard of an event headlined by a great women\u2019s fight. I\u2019ve been sparring with Claressa in the lead up to this and it\u2019s been great to be involved in the lead up to her fight.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>JOHN DAVID JACKSON, Shields\u2019 Trainer<\/p>\n<p>\u201cClaressa knows how to bring the pressure with her power, and we\u2019ve just been working on putting a little more precision with her punches so that hopefully this time, you\u2019ll see the knockout.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cClaressa says she\u2019s the best and she wants to keep proving that to the world with each fight. If she starts knocking these fighters out, then that\u2019s going to be a big plus for her. She\u2019s going to be even better defensively too and make her opponent miss and then make her pay.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI just want her to take it all in and enjoy the moment of fighting at home. Some fighters get distracted by it, but she\u2019s not that way. She\u2019s excited to be here and give her city something to talk about. I think she\u2019ll take the energy from the crowd and it\u2019ll make her fight even better.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>BASHIR ALI, Habazin\u2019s Trainer<\/p>\n<p>\u201cShe\u2019s very ready. You don\u2019t want to overdo the training or under do it. I\u2019ve been doing this for 50 years and I\u2019ve seen a lot of things. You never really know until that bell rings.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cClaressa is a top competitor and Ivana is also a top competitor. Ivana has 23 fights, so I don\u2019t have to hold her hand and walk her through everything. She knows what she has to do to win this fight.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThey say a boxer is only as good as their last fight. So you can\u2019t put too much into what you see on the video. You just have to also be prepared for the unexpected. I take into account what she does and doesn\u2019t do, but I\u2019m sure Claressa and her team have looked at themselves and made changes.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[AdSense-A] Unified middleweight world champion Claressa Shields and former world champion Ivana Habazin showed off their skills at a media workout Wednesday before they go toe-to-toe this Saturday night in a showdown for the WBO and WBC 154-pound world titles live on SHOWTIME from Dort Federal Credit Union Event Center in Flint, Mich. 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