LONDON -- U.S. middleweight Claressa Shields won the Olympic gold medal today, capping her swift rise to the top of women's boxing with a 19-12 victory over Russia's Nadezda Torlopova. The 17-year ...

Claressa Shields has a suggestion for how to end the United States’ Olympic gold drought: put her back on the national team.

ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Claressa Shields has a million-dollar ... injury and failure stems from her boxing success. She turned pro after the 2016 Olympics, has won a dozen championship belts ...

and that's about the point that 17-year old Claressa Shields lost it ... the only American boxer at these Olympics — and the first U.S. woman — to win boxing gold. The whole time she kept ...

Shields has signed with the Professional Fighters League in a quest to become the first woman to hold simultaneous titles in both MMA and boxing, she told The Associated Press on Monday.

boxing was the last male-only sport in the Olympics. Having women in the ring is a stretch for advertisers and promoters – even for many fans. Claressa's own father, Clarence Shields ...

FLINT, MI – Third hour at Flint Northwestern High School starts at 9:49 a.m. Claressa Shields, a 17-year-old looking to make the debut women's boxing team for this year's Summer Olympics games ...

COLORADO SPRINGS — Claressa Shields won a gold medal as the most dominant fighter in London at the first Olympic women’s boxing tournament. After reigning atop the amateur sport for the ...

Stephen Colbert bounced around his desk and greeted Claressa Shields, the 2012 Olympic gold medalist in women’s boxing. “Why? Why boxing?” he asked her during an appearance on “The Colbert ...

To boxing and Olympics enthusiasts, Claressa “T-Rex” Shields is a household name. The film “The Fire Inside,” starring Ryan Destiny as Shields and Brian Tyree Henry as her trainer ...

LONDON -- Youth prevailed and Claressa Shields won the first boxing gold medal for the United States since 2004. She won one of the three inaugural Olympic women’s boxing divisions Thursday ...