Heavyweight boxing champion Clarissa Shields, left, shares lens time with 12-year-old Jamaican-Canadian singing/performing prodigy Jazmin Headley and her dad Mark Headley at Sunday’s girls’s boxing title match between Danielle Perkins and Shields.
Picture credit score: Debra Myers
Twelve-year-old Jamaican-Canadian performing and singing prodigy Jazmin Headley sang the USA Nationwide Anthem Sunday evening in the course of the girls’s heavyweight title match between Danielle Perkins and winner Clarissa Shields in Shields’s hometown of Flint, Michigan.
Headley shot to fame final 12 months, when she teamed up with New York-based, visually impaired, Jamaican-born singer Nigy Boy on the inspirational “Goodness of God.”
The heavyweight combat was streamed stay on DAZN pay-per-view from Dort Monetary Heart, with about 6,000 seats, and a ground stuffed with followers.
“Enjoying the function of a younger Claressa within the film ‘Hearth Inside’ had its challenges, however seeing Claressa combat up shut was really superb,” Headley instructed Caribbean Life on Tuesday. “It’s an expertise that I’ll always remember. It left me speechless.
“Claressa was shifting, weaving and dodging punches all through the match like a real champion,” she added. “Her efficiency was phenomenal. It left little question in my thoughts that she is the best feminine fighter of all time.
“The combat confirmed her objective, her willpower and the arrogance she exudes, and solidifies the rationale why she has by no means misplaced a combat in her skilled profession,” Headley continued.
The MGM film, “The Hearth Inside”, is taken into account the “inspirational true story” of Claressa “T-Rex” Shields, who pushed previous obstacles to develop into the primary American girl to win an Olympic gold medal in boxing.
“The Hearth Inside” was directed by cinematographer (Academy Award nominee) Rachel Morrison, and was launched in theatres within the USA on Dec. 25, 2024.
In Sunday evening’s unanimous heavyweight boxing victory, 29-year-old Shields, a two-time Olympic gold medalist, with titles in 5 divisions, “stays undefeated within the girls’s heavyweight division, in keeping with The Sporting Information.
It stated Shields “improved her report to 16-0, with three knockouts.”
