“There is no one else between me and Clarissa, so it’s me and Clarissa this summer,” Marshall said. “I know Clarissa can not handle my strength. I know that when I meet Clarissa it will be a good night. “I think I seriously hurt Clarissa.” The fight looks set to take place in the UK, but Marshall said they wanted him back in Newcastle. “It has to happen here in the Northeast,” he said. Marshall took her time in the opening round and was occasionally selected by the Hermans fleet. But the champion chased Hermans more in the second and, while she landed with the jab, the Belgian was able to continue moving away from the problems as she was looking to land her right meter. The action heated up in the third, as Marshall watched as he walked through Hermans’ fists to land, though Hermans continued firing. But in the final seconds of the round, Marshall’s shots began to have an impact. A hard left lead led Hermans to fall back on the ropes, which was followed by a right. Then, as Marshall missed with his right, he followed the flattened Hermans with a huge left hook, leaving him lying on his back under the lower rope. Referee Howard Foster dismissed it immediately as the bell rang. “Femke is a great fighter, she is a former world champion and she is uncomfortable, she tried to catch me entering. I did not think it would turn out that way. “I’m never looking for a knockout.” Shields, which holds the WBC, WBA and IBF records, has not been very glamorous in its praise. “This is supposed to be done, I said he would do it with Femke,” Shields said. “I’m not Femke Hermans, I’m not Hannah Rankin, I’m not one of those girls he fought with.
“Whatever fist power it has, if I have to wait impatiently for it, it will be an elimination.
“I went the distance with Femke, but that was four years ago, at the beginning of my career. I’m not Femke. He will have a problem with me and he will definitely not knock me out. “You have to have strength, you have to have ability, you have to have it all to beat me. It’s not going to take her just a big punch to face me in the ring. It will take a lot. “Femke was able to lose her and I am ten times faster than Femke, so what do you think I will do?” Ron Lewis is a Senior Writer for BoxingScene. He was a boxing correspondent for the Times, where he worked from 2001-2019 – covering four Olympic Games and many world title races around the world. He has written about boxing for a wide variety of publications worldwide since the 1980s.