Claressa Shields v Savannah Marshall: Pundits and pros make their predictions for undisputed fight

Savannah Marshall (right) and Claressa Shields person precise antithetic styles of fighting

WBO satellite champion Savannah Marshall fights Claressa Shields successful a clash for the undisputed middleweight title successful London connected Saturday evening.

Twenty-seven-year-old Shields - wide considered 1 of, if not the best, pistillate fighters of each clip - is the WBC, IBF and WBA champion and the combat represents different landmark for women's boxing with an all-female paper and 2 women headlining astatine the O2 for the archetypal time.

But who volition win? Is Shields excessively slick for Marshall? Will Marshall's powerfulness level Shields? Pundits and pros marque their predictions below.

Former two-weight satellite champion Carl Frampton: "It's a hard 1 to telephone but I would accidental Savannah Marshall volition win. She punches a spot harder and that's important. I would beryllium much assured that Marshall's knockout powerfulness could get her implicit the enactment if it was implicit three-minute rounds; two-minute rounds is astir a antithetic sport. But I inactive borderline towards Marshall."

WBA light-middleweight champion Hannah Rankin: "I americium firmly successful the Claressa campy for this, not conscionable due to the fact that we're friends. It's a large fight. The 2nd fractional of the combat volition beryllium the unsafe portion for some fighters. I can't hold for that one. It's boxer versus puncher."

WBO light-middleweight champion Natasha Jonas: "It's a pugnacious combat for some girls. Neither of them person fought idiosyncratic of that calibre. I tin spot Claressa physique up a large lead. She's explosive, fast, likes to beryllium successful the pouch and throws a batch of measurement of punches. But Sav volition yet land. And I don't deliberation Claressa has been deed by anyone similar Sav. When Sav does land, radical don't get backmost up. She's got 1 of the astir devastating knockout reels successful pistillate boxing. I deliberation Claressa whitethorn get a small lackadaisical and Sav volition land."

Heavyweight Hughie Fury: "I judge Savannah volition get the knockout successful 8 rounds. I judge successful the enactment Savannah's done. She's precise powerful, I bash judge she'll travel through. This campy has been brutal, truthful each religion is successful her."

Former satellite champion Jane Couch: "Marshall by knockout. Claressa is precise good. A batch of those shots Savannah likes to throw, Claressa volition marque her miss. But astatine immoderate constituent implicit 10 rounds, she is going to drawback her and the pistillate punches similar a man. Peter Fury trains her present and you couldn't person got a amended trainer. Her benignant is his style. But past again, Claressa is utilized to the large signifier and that's portion of it."

Seven-weight satellite champion Amanda Serrano: "I'm conscionable excited to spot it. I'm gladsome I'm connected the extracurricular watching it. You person the backmost and forth, the bickering. They're some large fighters. "

WBO and IBF super-featherweight Mikaela Mayer: "I bash expect Savannah to proceed to container and determination similar she did successful that combat agelong ago, but I cognize Claressa is simply a smarter fighter, adjacent much of a canine than she was then. I spot her closing that abstraction and overwhelming Savannah. Savannah has proven to beryllium a precise bully pro arsenic well, she wants to onshore that large changeable truthful Claressa is going to person to beryllium cautious connected her mode in. I conscionable spot her overwhelming Savannah eventually."

Super-bantamweight Ellie Scotney: "It's going to beryllium a cagey start. I deliberation Marshall's got to commencement faster than she usually does. I'm definite it'll drawback occurrence astatine points, but it could beryllium a lawsuit of Shields being down and however volition she respond to that? Obviously, I'm going to beryllium Team Marshall here."

Light-middleweight April Hunter: "Sav knows what she needs to bash to get the triumph and I judge she will."