{"id":991,"date":"2021-05-14T17:37:42","date_gmt":"2021-05-14T17:37:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wordpress-583903-1890774.cloudwaysapps.com\/?p=991"},"modified":"2021-09-03T14:53:16","modified_gmt":"2021-09-03T18:53:16","slug":"boxing-champ-shields-trades-the-ring-for-the-octagon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.inspirationpost.com\/2021\/05\/14\/boxing-champ-shields-trades-the-ring-for-the-octagon\/","title":{"rendered":"Boxing Champ Shields Trades the Ring for the Octagon"},"content":{"rendered":"

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When you think of dominance in sports, you tend to think of sustained periods of greatness: Jordan\u2019s six championships over six (and a half) seasons, or Djokovic\u2019s 17 major championships in just 11 years. And while that kind of run in one sport is rare, what we see even less often is success in two different sports.<\/p>\n

That\u2019s what Claressa Shields<\/a><\/strong> is gunning for, though. The 26-year-old boxer is a two-time Olympic medallist and the undisputed champion in two separate weight classes. And she\u2019s decided that she needs a little more of a challenge.<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019ve accomplished everything in boxing,\u201d she told Good Morning America<\/a><\/strong> in April. And with that in mind she decided to try her hand at MMA. She recently signed with the Professional Fighters League and will make her PFL debut in just a couple of weeks, on June 10.<\/p>\n

Shields making the transition to MMA might sound less daunting than, say, MJ trying to break into baseball. But it\u2019s hard not to admire her commitment to growth, and to challenging her own limits. It\u2019s also hard to bet against her.<\/p>\n

\u201cGrowing up, I didn\u2019t have a whole bunch of food. I didn\u2019t have clothes and I didn\u2019t have shoes,\u201d she told GMA. \u201cI didn\u2019t have a bed until I was 17 years old. It just kind of taught me that anything I want I have to do for myself.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

  When you think of dominance in sports, you tend to think of sustained periods of greatness: Jordan\u2019s six championships over six (and a half) seasons, or Djokovic\u2019s 17 major championships in just 11 years. And while that kind of run in one sport is rare, what we see even less often is success in […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":993,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.inspirationpost.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/991"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.inspirationpost.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.inspirationpost.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.inspirationpost.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.inspirationpost.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=991"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.inspirationpost.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/991\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3485,"href":"https:\/\/www.inspirationpost.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/991\/revisions\/3485"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.inspirationpost.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/993"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.inspirationpost.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=991"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.inspirationpost.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=991"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.inspirationpost.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=991"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}