Claressa Shields ‘pulls an Ebanie Bridges’ and ‘rocks lingerie’ for weigh-in

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    Claressa Shields decided to 'pull an Ebanie Bridges' by weighing in for her blockbuster fight with Savannah Marshall wearing racy lingerie.

    The five-belt champion has turned heads this week with her verbal exchanges with her bitter rival, but on Friday it was far more than her mouth making headlines. Dressed in nothing more than knickers and bra, she happily flexed muscles as she clocked in at 160lbs.

    Earlier in the day, she'd taken to Twitter to ask her 106,000 followers if she should try and mimic the Australian beauty, writing: "Weigh ins today. Should I pull a Ebanie Bridges? Decisions decisions," with her idea met with overwhelming approval from fans.

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    Sure enough, the 'Blonde Bomber' herself was suitably impressed, tweeting the American star directly to say: "I see you rocked that lingerie." Bridges added a few emojis, including one suggesting Shields was on 'fire' as she weighed in.

    The IBF Bantamweight champion has become famed for setting pulses racing when she gets on the scales, with Eddie Hearn once famously not knowing where to look when the promoter stood behind her. And one fan suggested the Matchroom supremo should now fix up a different kind of contest.

    @ZENKHIII wrote: "Y’all [Bridges and Shields] should battle. See who does it better. Get Eddie out the mirror and tell him get DAZN to get behind this." @ChuckP216 called Bridges a "trendsetter", to which she jokingly replied: "Said it from day one" #thankmelater.

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    The bitter rivalry between Shields, 27, and Marshall, 31, will come to a head at The O2 Arena when both vie to unify the middleweight division. And the issue of sex appeal has already bizarrely formed part of the build-up this week, following a mix up between the pair on Sky Sports' The Gloves are Off.

    Marshall said: "The fact that we were both screaming at each other got us here," a reference to their confrontation in Cardiff after Shields beat Ema Kozin in February. But Shields seemed to mishear, thinking that Marshall had said "screwing."

    She reacted by screaming: "I didn't have sex with you, it's the fact that I even gave you attention." But the English fighter refused to back down, adding: "You did. You lost the plot. Your head fell off and lost all self-control."

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