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WBA GOLD CHAMPION AUSSIE “SHOTGUN” SHANNON O’CONNELL FIRES WARNING SHOT TO VACANT WBA BANTAMWEIGHT TITLE FIGHT CHALLENGERS COURTENAY & BRIDGES

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“The Baby Face Assassin” Shannon Courtenay will face “The Blonde Bomber” Ebanie Bridges for the vacant WBA Bantamweight World Title at The Copper Box Arena, Olympic Park, Hackney Wick this Saturday April 10, live on Sky Sports in the UK and on DAZN in the U.S. and more than 200 countries and territories.

Courtenay (6-1, 3 KOs), who stopped Dorota Norek in seven rounds on the Saunders vs. Murray undercard last time out in December, was originally slated to rematch Rachel Ball for the WBA crown, but Ball is still recovering from the effects of COVID-19.

Australia's Bridges (5-0, 2 KOs) celebrated her return to the ring after more than a year out with a convincing point win over Carol Earl in Sydney. 'The Blonde Bomber' won the judges’ favour and secured a unanimous decision victory in Bankstown to extend her unbeaten run to five fights, including two knockouts.

Waiting in the wings is arguably Australia’s greatest current Women’s Boxer, “Shotgun” Shannon O’ Connell who is on a near 5 year undefeated streak and the current #1 rated Bantamweight womens boxer in the WBA Womens division.

O’Connell (21-6, 10 Kos) is fresh off winning her WBA Gold Title against undefeated Cherneka Johnson (13-1) on March 3rd on enemy territory in Bendigo Stadium, Victoria and is making no bones about wanting the winner as she opens up about the WBA World Title fight this weekend.

“Neither girl deserves such a big fight at this point in their careers they haven’t done the years of hard work like myself and plenty of others have but good on them for taking the opportunity at least it’s not a clear one sided fight.

I think Shannon Courtney will win, she seems to be taking things a bit more seriously. Ebanie is making a joke out of the whole thing and I think that’ll show in the fight.

I don’t see either of these girls as a step up for me so I’m more than happy to fight whoever wins. An all-Aussie showdown would be good and it’ll give me opportunity to squash another undefeated record if Ebanie does win though”.

Photo Credit: Martys Photography




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