There will be more than the undisputed middleweight championship on the line when Savannah Marshall and Claressa Shields fight at the O2 Arena in London next Saturday.
The WBC has announced it has created the Elizabethan Belt to award to the winner of Shields-Marshall in honor of Queen Elizabeth II, who died on Sept.
8. Queen Elizabeth II's death ended up postponing the Marshall-Shields fight — and the entire card — after the British Boxing Board of Control decided to push all fights off of the weekend following her death.
The fights were rescheduled for Oct. 15. «I think the belt is brilliant, The WBC always pulls out the stops,» Marshall said in a statement. «It's one of a kind and it's staying in the UK.
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