{"id":77458,"date":"2026-08-16T00:56:03","date_gmt":"2026-08-16T05:56:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/08\/16\/claressa-shields-eyes-britains-price-after-stopping-kaye-scott-to-reclaim-titles\/"},"modified":"2026-08-16T00:56:03","modified_gmt":"2026-08-16T05:56:03","slug":"claressa-shields-eyes-britains-price-after-stopping-kaye-scott-to-reclaim-titles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/08\/16\/claressa-shields-eyes-britains-price-after-stopping-kaye-scott-to-reclaim-titles\/","title":{"rendered":"Claressa Shields eyes Britain\u2019s Price after stopping Kaye Scott to reclaim titles"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li>\n<p>American stops Sydneysider at 1:38 of sixth round<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p>Shields claims WBA and WBC belts after 38lb cut<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p>Lauren Price identified as preferred next opponent<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Claressa Shields completed a remarkable descent from heavyweight to middleweight, stopping Australia\u2019s Kaye Scott in the sixth round to capture the WBA and WBC titles in a fight that went off early Sunday morning at State Farm Arena in Atlanta.<\/p>\n<p>The five-division world champion and double Olympic gold medalist dominated her outclassed opponent from the opening bell before dropping Scott in the sixth and overwhelming her against the ropes after the action resumed. With the 42-year-old champion unable to defend herself from another sustained barrage, Scott\u2019s corner threw several towels into the ring and the contest was waved off after 1min 38sec.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/sport\/2026\/aug\/16\/claressa-shields-kaye-scott-middleweight-titles-boxing-atlanta\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>American stops Sydneysider at 1:38 of sixth round Shields claims WBA and WBC belts after 38lb cut Lauren Price identified as preferred next opponent Claressa Shields completed a remarkable descent from heavyweight to middleweight, stopping Australia\u2019s Kaye Scott in the sixth round to capture the WBA and WBC titles in a fight that went off &#8230; <a title=\"Claressa Shields eyes Britain\u2019s Price after stopping Kaye Scott to reclaim titles\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/08\/16\/claressa-shields-eyes-britains-price-after-stopping-kaye-scott-to-reclaim-titles\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Claressa Shields eyes Britain\u2019s Price after stopping Kaye Scott to reclaim titles\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-77458","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77458","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=77458"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77458\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=77458"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=77458"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=77458"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}