Marshall key holder3/11/2023 ![]() ![]() She lost then just before she would have boxed Shields. It was just this overwhelming feeling of anxiety, pressure." "Going into that tournament I was ranked number one in the world, I was the favourite to win gold, I only had to win one fight to win a medal and I couldn't do it. "I had people messaging me saying I've just put a grand on you to win gold. Marshall was underperforming, most cruelly when, in 2012, with huge expectation on her at the London Olympics she lost her first bout. I won gold at the world championships again and then I won the Olympics again and she was there to witness all those moments and she had to sit there." "I proved not only am I great once but I'm great at the world championships 2014, I won gold there. Image: Shields boxes Nouchka Fontijn in the final of the 2016 Olympic Games With Marshall's hand raised, Shields turned away, for once and for the first time defeated. Shields clumped a right in on the bell but to no avail. Her continual movement, shifting under shots and moving round Shields, prevented the American from pinning her down. When she took punches on her arms, Marshall let a countering right cross go. Marshall might having been giving ground but she was landing shots. Shields swung for her but the Englishwoman timed strikes with her lead left hook. Marshall had a four-point lead going into the last round. The only thing that wasn't in my favour was the judges that was it." "But you beat me up? I put everything on the line to win that fight. "Holding, holding, holding," the American added. I chased her, she's sweating," Shields insisted. "I was on her like a pitbull on a goddamn rabbit. Marshall and Shields review their 2012 World Championship fight, which saw ‘The GWOAT’ suffer her only career defeat It was a competitive bout that Sav was edging all the way through, in my opinion." It wasn't one-sided, it wasn't like Sav was miles too good for her. They're saying it was close but it wasn't close. "She used her height, her reach and her boxing brain and ability and experience and beat her, and she did beat her as well. "It didn't phase or spook Sav at all, she handled it terrifically. She was calm, she was positive, she had that mental attitude going in there," he said. Lee Pullen, one of the GB coaches, was in Marshall's corner for that bout with Shields. "And then I remember thinking, 'I've worked this hard, who the hell are you? You've got two arms, two legs, that's it'." "Then the draw sheet come out and it was: 'Savannah you've got the winner of USA and India' and I remember thinking, 'Great, typical'. "I remember getting to that tournament and everybody was talking about this girl, this new American who is unbeaten," Marshall said. Shields and Marshall will fight for undisputed middleweight supremacy at the O2 Arena on Saturday, live on Sky Sports ![]()
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