Hammerfight ranks1/22/2024 ![]() ![]() “I thought I finished her in round eight,” Shields said. Thorough enough was the violence for Cavalleri and Taylor to score it a 10-8 round. Photograph: Julio Cortez/APĪ thudding overhand right by the American to end the seventh ignited the crowd but it was a mere prelude to the gripping eighth, where Shields poured on the punishment and knocked Hammer’s mouthpiece loose before trapping her prey in the corner and opening up with a dozen unanswered shots to the head and body as referee Sparkle Lee leaned in, a split-second from intervention. For all the questions surrounding the American’s power, it was Shields’ defense, an upgrade on Saturday from even her most recent fights, that stood out as Hammer looked confused and without a plan B as the fight reached the midpoint.Īn emotional Claressa Shields holds her belts after defeating Christina Hammer by unanimous decision on Saturday night. Shields continued to score with the jab and the right hand in the middle rounds as Hammer, drifting into survival mode, seemed to expend all her energy keeping her opponent at bay. The German was trying to work off the jab, but Shields slipped one offering after another with deft head movement. Hammer was not seriously hurt by the shots, but they were enough to make the Dortmund fighter appear tentative from as early as the third as she circled back and to the left away from Shields’ powerful right. Shields began stepping into the pocket and throwing punches in combination in the second round, connecting with a pair of cracking right hands toward the end of the frame that brought the audience of several thousand to its feet. “I was just calculating in the first round and after that I started picking her apart. “I was just calculating: what is her jab like, how fast is she?” Shields said. But after two minutes of careful observation, the American had seen everything she needed to know. Shields (9-0, 2 KOs) showed an appropriate measure of respect throughout a cagey first round, keeping safely out of range as Hammer looked to establish her educated jab. Hammer (24-1, 11 KOs), a German émigrée from Kazakhstan and a world champion for nearly a decade, entered with two-inch advantages in height and reach and, crucially, the brand of seasoned pedigree in the pro ranks that made the 28-year-old seem more than capable of upsetting the nearly 3-1 odds against her. “I’ll go to the UK and beat Savannah Marshall,” Shields said afterward. So rare is the feat in today’s decentralized climate that four men have managed it: the reigning cruiserweight champion Oleksandr Usyk, junior welterweight Terence Crawford and middleweights Bernard Hopkins and Jermain Taylor.Īfterward the cocksure 24-year-old from Flint, Michigan – undefeated in nine paying fights and a winner in 77 of her 78 amateur bouts – animatedly called out both Brækhus and Savannah Marshall, the unbeaten British super middleweight whose defeat of Shields at the 2012 world championships represents the lone blemish on her lifetime ledger. The only gem I've really used before is the ruby gem, but I got a large purple gem recently and slapped it onto the heaviest hammer I could buy.Shields, who had already won a belt at super middleweight in her fourth professional fight to back up her London and Rio golds, added Hammer’s long-held WBO title to the IBF, WBA and WBC straps that she’s collected since dropping down to 160lbs less than a year ago, becoming only the second champion in the history of the women’s section to simultaneously hold all four major title belts in any division after Norway’s Cecilia Brækhus, the welterweight queen regarded as the best fighter pound for pound today. It's the only way to unlock the 'great hunt' mode and that mode allows you get get singing gems which are really awesome. Speaking of gamemodes, you can kinda screw yourself over, I've found, if you don't choose the 'hard' path at the beginning of the game. What is this 'tribal wars' mode you're talking about? I've never heard/seen it, but I have unlocked the hammerball mode. I have no idea how I manage to do so well back then. ![]() I wonder if it 's because I changed the resolution in the config thingy.īack when I first played I never used shields because I didn't realize you could bind them to any key, not just the number keys. I also notice that when speech bubbles go away it leaves a sort of afterglow, and I imagine that effect applies to a lot of thing in the game that makes it weird. ![]() Don't forget the weapon that fires about two dozen firecracker things all over the place. ![]()
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