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Claressa Shields and Jane Couch could have fought each other had Shields been fighting when Couch was breaking barriers, upsetting people and boxing any woman with a pulse. This last weekend in Bristol, Couch, now 51, was told her recent autobiography would be made into a film, and in Atlantic City on Friday night, Shields became the first boxer in history to win world titles at three separate weights after just ten professional fights; she won two consecutive gold medals at the Olympics and fought 78 times as an amateur with just the one loss, so please don't imagine she is a novice. Shields was only 17 when she was beaten at the World Championships in China by Hartlepool's Savannah Marshall in 2012 – the pair might fight each other as professionals later this year.
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