tvåfaldige guldmedaljören i OS-boxning, Claressa Shields, menar att Cris Cyborgs övergång till boxning hade tett sig enkel. Shields sade genom MMAFighting att brassen skulle göra sig bra i boxningsvärldens toppskikt om hon fick träna under en kortare tid.
I looked at (Cyborg’s films) and I was like ’ok, I see a few things that I wanna tell her to work on,’ and then, the best way to learn is from experience. From today, she’d be a great transition in over to boxing. It would be not be hard for you. A year of just training in boxing, six months, you’ll able to take on some of the top girls.
She’s physically strong, physically fast, very athletic. Only thing, you just gotta work on the whole breathing thing. I think MMA and boxing is like swimming and running, especially when it comes to breathing. Cris is strong, she’s fast.
Shields tror att Cyborg hade kunnat mäta sig med Cecilia Braekhus, norskan som håller boxningstitlar i weltervikt i flertalet organisationer som WBC, WBA, IBF, WBO och IBO.
It’d be a heck of a match-up between her and Cris – Claressa Shields. That would be a really good fight. Wouldn’t be like Cecilia Braekhus would just have in the bag. And long as Cris is in shape, gets the boxing down and be focused on it, it would be very, very competitive.
It’s really hard from MMA because you have to train and mix everything, you train jiu-jitsu, you can’t focus in one thing – Cris Cyborg. Imagine with one year, just training boxing, I think it would be really nice. I’m interested, maybe one day.
You’d be a monster – Claressa Shields.
Nedan kan ni se en sparringvideo mellan Claressa Shields och Cris Cyborg.
Me and @criscyborg sparring a small clip ❤️ pic.twitter.com/PDYwhOEtDJ
— ClaressaT-rexShields (@Claressashields) June 25, 2017
Cyborg möter Tonya Evinger under UFC 214. Cyborg var tidigare ställd mot Megan Anderson som av personliga skäl hoppade av matchen mot Cris Cyborg.
