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FOUR weeks after they were originally supposed to meet, middleweights Claressa Shields and Savannah Marshall will finally share a ring this Saturday (October 15) in London, their bitter rivalry having been left to simmer following the death of Her Majesty the Queen last month.
That, at the time, represented an unforeseen obstacle for all who were due to fight on the September 10 card, and it delayed a main event plenty of people were anticipating.
Yet, in the end, given the history between Shields and Marshall, and given this is a collision course along which both have been travelling since 2012, waiting a few weeks longer for something this good was not quite the hardship it seemed four weeks ago.
Indeed, now, with the fight again ready to go this weekend, the rivalry is very much at boiling point, with both surely sick of the sight of one another. They have, after all, shared numerous press conferences and head-to-heads and roundtable interviews and, last month, when on the brink of battle, they already looked all out
