IBF super middleweight world champion Savannah Marshall will take on WBO super middleweight world champion Shadasia Green in a highly anticipated 10-round, 168 pounds world title unification bout on the main card of MVP’s Katie Taylor vs. Amanda Serrano trilogy megafight on July 11, Most Valuable Promotions (MVP) and Netflix announced Thursday.
In addition, On the preliminary card will be MVP’s new signee, former undisputed champion and current WBC interim world champion Chantelle “Il Capo” Cameron (20-1, 8 KOs), who will face Canada’s Jessica Camara (14-4-1, 3 KOs) in a 10-round women’s WBC interim super lightweight championship bout at 140 pounds.
Rounding out the card will be MVP’s multi-talented Somali-British boxer, activist, and high fashion model Ramla Ali (9-2, 2 KO) against Sao Paulo, Brazil’s Lila Furtado (11-2, 2 KOs) in an 8-round super bantamweight bout at 122 pounds.
Before turning pro, Marshall made history as Britain’s first-ever female amateur world champion in 2012, handing Claressa Shields the only defeat of her career on her way to the gold.
In October 2022, she headlined the first-ever all-female boxing card in the UK against Claressa Shields, attracting a record-breaking audience of over two million viewers, the largest live TV audience for a women’s sporting event in Sky Sports history.
Following the bout, Marshall moved up to super middleweight at 168 pounds and defeated Franchón Crews-Dezurn in July 2023 to become the undisputed super middleweight world champion.
“Defending my IBF and Ring Magazine belt in a unification fight with Shadasia Green, on an all-women’s card such as this, is a great way to start my new journey with MVP,” said Marshall. “There are so many great women on one show at the iconic Madison Square Garden, and I’m beaming that I can play my part in it. Cannot wait for Friday, July 11th!”
Green (14-1, 11 KOs) makes her third world title fight appearance against Savannah Marshall. Green, the former standout college basketball star and Team USA boxing silver medalist from Patterson, NJ, joined MVP in January 2023. Shortly after, Green defeated former unified world champion Elin Cederroos with a vicious sixth-round TKO, marking the first and only time Cederroos was ever stopped in her career.
Cameron (20-1, 8 KOs), the former undisputed super lightweight champion at 140 pounds and current WBC interim world super lightweight champion, returned to the ring in July 2024. She defeated Elhem Mekhaled to secure the WBC interim super lightweight title at 140 pounds, which she defended in November 2024 and will defend again on Friday, July 11.
Camara (14-4-1, 3 KOs) is a 5’6” Canadian professional boxer born in Cambridge, Ontario, who captured the WBA lightweight Gold title in April 2024 by defeating the previously unbeaten Choi Hyun-mi in South Korea. She most recently fought to a technical draw against WBC and IBO lightweight champion Caroline Dubois.
Ali (9-2, 2 KO) is a 35-year-old Somali-British professional boxer, philanthropist, high-fashion model, and social activist. She made her pro debut in October 2020, winning the vacant IBF Intercontinental title at Madison Square Garden in New York in 2023 in just her 8th pro fight before winning the WBA International super bantamweight title in a hard-fought rematch against Mexico’s Julissa Alejandra Guzman later that year.
Furtado (11-2, 2 KOs) is a former three-time Brazilian super bantamweight champion at 122 pounds from Guarulhos, Sao Paulo, Brazil. Furtado’s impressive resume glitters with notable victories, including defeating Paola Pamela Benavidez to win the vacant WBC Latino super bantamweight title in June 2022 and the UBO World Title against Bestalia Sanchez in April 2023. Most recently, Furtado defeated Gisele Libanio by unanimous decision in December 2024.
In the co-main event on Taylor-Serrano 3, reigning undisputed super featherweight champion Alycia “The Bomb” Baumgardner (15-1, 7 KOs) will face undefeated WBA Interim world champion, Spain’s Jennifer Miranda (12-0, 1 KO), a 10-round undisputed super featherweight championship fight contested at 130 pounds.
Also on the main card, MVP and England’s unified super bantamweight champion Ellie Scotney (10-0) will face Mexico’s WBC super bantamweight world champion Yamileth “Yeimi” Mercado (24-3, 5 KOs) in a women’s unified championship fight at 122 pounds.
On the preliminary card, MVP’s Danish two-weight world champion, reigning unified bantamweight world champion, and Boxrec’s #1 pound-for-pound female boxer Dina Thorslund (23-0, 9 KOs) will take on MVP’s IBF bantamweight world champion Shurretta “Chiccn” Metcalf (14-4-1, 2 KOs) in a 10-round women’s world title unification bout contested at 118 lbs. Also on the preliminary card will be MVP’s two-time Canadian Olympian, amateur world champion, and standout middleweight Tamm Thibeault (2-0, 1 KO), continuing to fight every bout in her pro career under equal rules to men, three-minute rounds, in an 8 round bout against the WBC, WBO, WBA and IBF’s #1 contender Mary Casamassa (6-0, 2 KOs), contested at 160 pounds.
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