Two-time Olympic champion Claressa Shields will be made to wait to add another world title to her collection, as her fight with Ivana Habazin was called off after the Croat’s coach was ‘sucker punched’ at Friday’s weigh-in.
Habazin says that her trainer, 71-year-old James Ali Bashir, will require “facial reconstruction surgery” following the incident after he was punched in the neck from behind by a member of Shields’ entourage, she claims.
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The WBC called off the bout in the wake of the alleged attack which was slated to be for the organization’s vacant light-middleweight world title.
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