Claressa Shields fighting with a fractured finger sounds heroic until Kaye Scott’s disadvantages are placed beside it. Shields was 31, while Scott was 42 and had completed only seven professional bouts.
Ring Magazine revealed that Shields fractured the finger after falling during training two weeks before Saturday’s fight in Atlanta. She continued with the bout and stopped Scott in round six to capture the WBA and WBC middleweight titles.
The injury required toughness, but sympathy is difficult when Scott faced a far greater collection of obstacles. She brought a 5-1-1 record into the ring against a two-t
