Savannah Marshall


Savannah Marshall is a British professional boxer. As an amateur, she became the first British female world champion after securing gold at the 2012 World Championships. She also won silver at the 2010 World Championships, bronze at the 2011 European Championships, gold at the 2014 Commonwealth Games and bronze at the 2016 World Championships. She remains the only boxer to have defeated Claressa Shields, amateur or professional. She has been nicknamed as the 'Silent Assassin' due to her innate shyness.

Early life

Marshall attended the English Martyrs School and Sixth Form College, Hartlepool, where she achieved 12 GCSEs before gaining a Distinction in a BTEC National Diploma in Sport at Hartlepool College. She has been boxing since aged 12, when she joined a local Hartlepool Headland club with friends in order to keep fit.

Amateur career

Following her win in China at the 2012 AIBA Women's World Boxing Championships in Qinhuangdao, China, Marshall was a favourite to win gold at the 2012 London Olympics. However, she was defeated 16–12 by Marina Volnova of Kazakhstan in her opening, quarter-final bout. Marshall remains the only boxer ever to have defeated Claressa Shields, the middleweight women's gold medalist in the 2012 Olympics; the upset bout took place in the second round of the 2012 AIBA Women's World Boxing Championships in Qinhuangdao.
At the 2014 Commonwealth Games in Glasgow, Marshall beat Ariane Fortin of Canada to take the gold medal in the women's middleweight division.
In May 2016, Marshall qualified for the 2016 Rio Olympics, after reaching the semi-finals of the 2016 AIBA Women's World Boxing Championships in Kazakhstan.

Professional career

On 18 May 2017, during a press conference to promote the IBF junior-lightweight title defence of Mayweather promoted Gervonta Davis against former British champion Liam Walsh, Floyd Mayweather Jr. announced to the press that he had signed Marshall to a professional promotional contract. Marshall made her professional boxing debut at super-middleweight on the undercard of The Money Fight, in the professional boxing super-fight between undefeated five-division champion Floyd Mayweather Jr. and the former UFC Lightweight Champion and Featherweight Champion Conor McGregor. It took place at the T-Mobile Arena in Paradise, Nevada on 26 August 2017. She defeated Sydney LeBlanc by unanimous decision 40-36 in a four-round bout.
Marshall lifted the vacant WBA super-middleweight Inter-continental title in Sofia, Bulgaria, after winning all 10 rounds to claim a comfortable points victory over Yanina Orozco.

Professional boxing record

No.ResultRecordOpponentTypeRound, timeDateLocationNotes
9 Geovana Peres– 27 Jun 2020 Utilita Arena, Newcastle, EnglandFor WBO female light-heavyweight title
8Win8–0 Ashleigh CurryTKO3, 0:4719 Oct 2019 Utilita Arena, Newcastle, England
7Win7–0 Daniele BastieriTKO5, 2:0031 Aug 2019 The O2 Arena, London, England
6Win6–0 Borislava Goranova1, 1:1125 May 2019 O2 Victoria Warehouse, Manchester, England
5Win5–0 Klaudia VíghTKO2, 1:059 Nov 2018 O2 Victoria Warehouse, Manchester, England
4Win4–0 Yanina OrozcoUD1027 Oct 2018 Arena Armeec, Sofia, BulgariaWon vacant WBA Inter-Continental super-middleweight title
3Win3–0 Alejandra AyalaTKO2, 1:5815 Jun 2018 York Hall, London, England
2Win2–0 Ester Konecna2, 1:4312 May 2018 Whites Hotel, Bolton, England
1Win1–0 Sydney LeBlanc426 Aug 2017 T-Mobile Arena, Paradise, Nevada, US