Claressa Shields Wins the United States

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She came out and fought a little bit different this time. I've never had a point taken from me before and I've boxed in a lot of tournaments in a lot of countries with a lot of different referees and I've never had a point taken for moving my head," Shields said. "That still didn't scare me though, I knew it was just one point. I knew I won the first three rounds easy and in the fourth round, she started to move and didn't really try to fight. I just kept pressuring her and won a unanimous decision."  

Shields boxed three times on her way to a Pan Am Games gold medal, opening the tournament with a victory over Brazil's Flavia Figueiredo in the quarterfinal round. She added a win over Argentina's Lucia Perez in semifinal competition prior to her championship bout on Friday.

Women's boxing made its Pan American Games debut in the 2011 event, one year before the sport's first appearance on the Olympic docket. As the U.S. team failed to medal at the 2011 Pan American Games, Shields' gold medal is the first for an American woman in Pan Am competition.

Shields has won gold in every major international event contested in women's boxing, taking titles in elite and youth world championships competition as well as her historic win at the 2012 Olympic Games. The 20-year-old recently moved from her home in Flint, Mich., to the U.S. Olympic Training Center in Colorado Springs to focus fully on her run at a second Olympic gold medal at the 2016 Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro.
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I hope she turns pro real soon.