FLINT, MI – Flint boxer Claressa Shields will host a block party at Berston Field House to rally support for her upcoming heavyweight title.

Shields, otherwise known as the “GWOAT,” is hosting an event from noon to 3 p.m. on Sunday, July 21, at Berston Field House, 3300 Saginaw St., on the city’s north side.

Shields is stepping up two weight classes to take on WBC heavyweight champion Vanessa Lepage-Joanisse, 28, on Saturday, July 27, at Little Caesars Arena in Detroit.

If she wins the fight, it would be the fourth weight division in which Shields, 29, has won a world boxing championship.

In addition to the middleweight division, Shields previously won world championship belts as a super welterweight and super middleweight.

The two-time Olympic boxing champion has a 14-0 professional record with two knockouts. Lepage-Joanisse’s record stands at 7-1 with two knockouts.

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As a two-time Olympic gold medal winner, Claressa Shields had some of her fondest boxing memories from the Olympic Games.

So as far as the Paris 2024 Olympics go, who does “The GWOAT” like to win gold? The undisputed middleweight women’s world champion is going with Jajaira Gonzalez, a 27-year-old from Glendora, California.

“Jajaira Gonzalez is the best, she’s like a sister to me,” Shields recently told SportsHandle.com. “We’ve traveled the world together. I believe her and Morelle McCane had some of the best fights back in 2016 to make the Olympics. Morelle made it by a hair, but Jajaira has been around for a long time.”

And through that time, Shields believes that Gonzalez has gained invaluable ring experience that will pay off in the Olympics.

“She’s been in the ring with the best, like Queen Underwood and the girls who are now pros doing big things,” added Shields who will clash with Vanessa Joanisse for the WBC heavyweight women’s title on July 27, live on DAZN.

“I believe Jajaira has the best chance at the gold medal because of her experience,” she tacked on. “I know all of them can do it, but Jajaira has the most experience.”

Claressa Shields and Lauren Price are the only two women to have won Olympic middleweight gold medals so far; Shields and Price are now professional world champions operating in different weight divisions but the American star can see a super-fight with Price taking place down the line

Claressa Shields is a unique fighter. An undisputed champion, she is a multi-weight titlist who has also competed in MMA and who will go for a title in a fourth division later this month.

She will challenge Vanessa Lepage-Joanisse for the WBC heavyweight championship in Detroit.

The Olympic middleweight gold medal has only been won by two women, Shields in 2012 and 2016, and most recently Wales’ Lauren Price, who triumphed at the Tokyo Games.