Shields and Kozin February 5 clash

The world champion and one of the best pound per pound Claressa Shields, will return to the ring to face the undefeated Ema Kozin, originally from Slovenia, on February 5, at the Motorpoint Arena in Cardiff, Wales.

The fight was to have taken place a week before, but the British Boxing Control Board suspended boxing matches in January, as a precaution for the spread of the Covid-19 virus, so the date was moved to February 5.

Shields (11-0, 2 KOs), who will make her UK debut, has just defeated Marie Eve Dicaire by wide decision in March of last year, in a match she dominated from start to finish.