Former Floyd Mayweather assistant thought Claressa Shields might promote 5k PPV
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Former Floyd Mayweather assistant David Levi prompted a stir on social media when the Subzero proprietor broadcast his tackle Claressa Shields’ Pay Per View.
Responding to remark from ex-world champion and Mayweather Promotions member Ishe Smith on a rumor that the combat solely bought 10,000 PPVs, Levi stated he believed the battle with Marie-Eve Dicaire would solely promote than 5000 anyway.
Smith stated, “10,000 buys, geesh! It is not good, nevertheless it’s extra of a testomony to what individuals take into consideration ladies’s boxing.
“Not (Claressa) Shields as a complete. I do not blame her for desirous to do MMA. For some motive, individuals help these ladies extra. “
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Levi replied, “10,000 is about double what I assumed I used to be going to do.”
Precise Pay Per View gross sales figures weren’t launched for the occasion, which passed off on Friday, March 5.
Shields received a unanimous resolution to turn out to be the one undisputed two-weight champion to win 4 belts in two separate divisions, male or feminine.
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Salita Promotions and Mark Taffet, who co-promoted the combat, subsequently identified that Shields vs Dicaire had exceeded expectations.
“On Worldwide Girls’s Day weekend, Claressa Shields achieved one other first for any man or girl in boxing’s lengthy historical past.
“This, mixed together with her two Olympic gold medals and her standing as world champion in three divisions, proves that Claressa is a real Superwoman!
“From a younger woman rising up in Flint to a girl successful her second undisputed world championship below the gaze of the entire world, Claressa has proven what is feasible for feminine athletes and for feminine boxing,” stated Salita.
“I’m proud to be related to ladies’s rights pioneer Claressa Shields,” stated Taffet.
“Solely 25 years younger and already completed, within the Olympic Video games and within the ranks {of professional} boxing, which no man has ever performed.
“Claressa frequently makes use of her platform and broad shoulders to face up for all ladies. It calls for equality in any respect ranges.
“Immediately and day-after-day, women and men all over the world ought to stand with Claressa. It transcends boxing and operates an actual change in society. “
Girls’s boxing is definitely making strides in altering attitudes. However in saying this, Shields appears poised to desert his boxing profession in favor of a run in MMA.