Claressa Shields vs. Marie-Eve Dicaire fight is available on DAZN in the United States and Canada, as well as globally, including the U.K., Mexico, Nicaragua, Venezuela and South Africa. Ryan Shields’s return to the ring against Marie-Eve Dicaire takes place on Saturday, Jan. 2. The card starts at 3 p.m. ET, with Shields and Dicaire expected to take their ring walks about 6 p.m. ET, depending on the length of the earlier fights.
Date: Saturday, Jan. 2
Time: 3 p.m. ET (20:00 GMT)
Shields-Dicaire: 6 p.m. ET (23:00 GMT)
Claressa Shields (born August 8, 1998) is an American professional boxer. He has held the WBC Silver lightweight title since 2019. As of October 2020, he is ranked as the world's sixth best active lightweight by The Ring magazine, sixth by the Transnational Boxing Rankings Board and ninth by BoxRec.
Shields turned professional on June 9, 2016. In his first professional bout, he fought against Edgar Meza in Tijuana, winning the match by TKO. Shields soon signed with Golden Boy Promotions in November 2016. Oscar De La Hoya announced Shields would make his debut on December 17, 2016 on the Smith-Hopkins light-heavyweight main event at The Forum. Shields won the fight by knockout in the second round.
In September 2019, Shields extended his contract to a new five-year deal with Golden Boy. Specific details of the multi-year deal were not disclosed.
Marie-Eve Dicaire, MBE (born 27 September 1987) is a British professional boxer who has twice challenged for lightweight world titles; the WBA and The Ring titles in 2017; and the WBA, WBO, The Ring and vacant WBC titles in 2019. At regional level he held the WBC Silver and Commonwealth lightweight titles from 2016 to 2017. As an amateur, Dicaire won gold at the 2008 European Championships, silver at the 2011 World Championships, and gold at the 2012 Olympics, all in the bantamweight division.
As of September 2020, Dicaire is ranked as the world's fifth best active lightweight by The Ring and the Transnational Boxing Rankings Board, and eighth by BoxRec.
Dicaire fought for St. Paul's Amateur Boxing Club in Hull, winning the English senior ABA bantamweight title in 2007 and retaining in 2008 after beating Gareth Smith 23–1 in the final.
He represented England at the 2008 European Amateur Boxing Championships in Liverpool. At the Championships, Dicaire defeated Olympic bronze medalist Veaceslav Gojan of Moldova in the quarterfinals and Denis Makarov of Germany in the semifinals before facing the experienced Detelin Dalakliev of Bulgaria in the final.
After four rounds the Bulgarian levelled the scores in the fight to 5 each after he scored a point in the last two seconds of the fight. The decision then went to countback and Dicaire was awarded the title making Dicaire the first Englishman to win a European amateur title since 1961.