Shields vs Marshall 'will be blood, guts & nothing else', predicts trainer Fury

Savannah Marshall’s showdown with American rival Claressa Shields, live on Sky Sports on September 10, will see her career skyrocket, predicts trainer Peter Fury.

"I'm very pleased for Savannah, she's worked all her life from being a child, 12 years of age, to be unifying all the belts, and against a top fighter as well, double [Olympic] gold medallist. It's perfect. Stories are made like this," he told Sky Sports.

"What it's going to do for little kids growing up to see this. It's an amazing, amazing achievement. Savannah's career is just about to go lift off."

After two days' of media engagements this week, with both fighters trading verbal barbs, Fury is eager to return to the real work of training camp.

The pre-fight talk, Fury said, "To me it means absolutely zero. I wasn't really listening to what Claressa was really saying. It's all a bit of bravado, it's excitement, it is what it is. It means nothing to me. The main thing for me and Savannah is strictly down to business and getting the job done. We know what's in front of her and we're silently confident."

He is under no illusions how intense the fight will prove to be when Marshall and Shields box to decide the undisputed middleweight world championship.

"Listen it's a unification fight, it ain't going to be a 'tippy tappy' trying to just steal it on points. Get in there. For a unified championship, you've got to take it off the other one. It's going to be blood and guts I'm afraid. That's what fight fans want to see and that's what we're going to get," Marshall's trainer said.

"Blood, snot and fireworks. Nothing else."

Fury has been credited with bringing the best out of Marshall as a professional. But he played down his input.

"Yeah, she's quiet but it's a