Nickname(s) Silent Assassin Role Boxer Nationality British Height 1.81 m | Sport Boxing Weight 75 kg Name Savannah Marshall Rated at Middleweight | |
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SAVANNAH MARSHALL ON SPLIT W/ FLOYD MAYWEATHER, LINKING UP W/ PETER FURY & BEATING CLARESSA SHIELDS
Savannah Marshall (born 19 May 1991) is a British boxer, winning the UK's first ever women's amateur boxing world championship. She has been nicknamed as the ‘Silent Assassin’ due to her innate shyness.
Contents
- SAVANNAH MARSHALL ON SPLIT W FLOYD MAYWEATHER LINKING UP W PETER FURY BEATING CLARESSA SHIELDS
- Savannah marshall on her boxing sculpture
- Early life
- Amateur career
- Professional career
- References
Savannah marshall on her boxing sculpture
Early life
Marshall attended the English Martyrs School and Sixth Form College, Hartlepool, where she achieved 12 GCSEs before gaining a Distinction in a BTEC National Diploma in Sport at Hartlepool College. She has been boxing since aged 12, when she joined a local Hartlepool Headland club with friends in order to keep fit.
Amateur career
Following her win in China at the 2012 AIBA Women's World Boxing Championships in Qinhuangdao, China, Marshall was a favourite to win Olympic gold in London in August 2012. However, she was defeated 16–12 by Marina Volnova of Kazakhstan in her opening, quarter-final bout. Marshall remains the only boxer ever to have defeated Claressa Shields, the middleweight women's gold medalist in the 2012 Olympics; the upset bout took place in the second round of the world championships at Qinhuangdao in 2012.
At the 2014 Commonwealth Games in Glasgow, Marshall beat Ariane Fortin of Canada to take the gold medal in the women's middleweight division. In May 2016, Marshall qualified for the 2016 Olympics in Rio de Janeiro after reaching the semi-finals of the World Championships in Kazakhstan.
Professional career
On 18 May 2017, during a press conference to promote the IBF super featherweight title defence of Mayweather promoted Gervonta Davis against former British champion Liam Walsh, Floyd Mayweather Jr. announced to the press that he had signed Marshall to a professional promotional contract. Marshall made her professional boxing debut at super middleweight on the undercard of The Money Fight, in the professional boxing super-fight between undefeated five-division champion Floyd Mayweather Jr. and the current UFC Lightweight Champion Conor McGregor. It took place at the T-Mobile Arena in Paradise, Nevada on 26 August 2017. She defeated Sydney LeBlanc by unanimous decision 40-36 in a four-round bout.