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Ryan Destiny stars as Claressa Shields in director Rachel Morrison's THE FIRE INSIDE. Credit - Sabrina Lantos—2024 Amazon Content Services LLC. “I was just like, ‘wow, look at where we ...
Producer Alicia Holmes had watched the documentary T-Rex and brought Barry Jenkins on to write a script about boxer Claressa Shields (who goes by the titular nickname in the ring). In 2012, 17 ...
Destiny dedicated 10 months to intense boxing training in order to accurately portray Shields in the film. “I looked at so many videos of Claressa on YouTube, and her documentary was really ...
Claressa Maria Shields [1] (born March 17, 1995) is an American professional boxer and professional mixed martial artist.She has held multiple world championships in five weight classes, including the undisputed female light middleweight title in March 2021; the undisputed female middleweight title twice between 2019 and 2024, the World Boxing Organization (WBO) female light heavyweight title ...
But Flint, Mich., native Claressa Shields, for whom pugilism was a passion, entered the ring early: As a teenage phenom, she punched her way to record-setting, Olympic-gold levels. (Twice, back to ...
The Fire Inside is a 2024 American biographical sports film by Rachel Morrison in her feature directorial debut.The film is about the early boxing career of Claressa "T-Rex" Shields, a fighter from Flint, Michigan, including her competing at the 2012 Summer Olympics.
Seventeen-year-old American Claressa Shields won gold in the women's middleweight, defeating Russia's veteran thirty-three-year-old Nadezda Torlopova by a score of 19–12 in the final. [2] Her victory is depicted in the 2024 film The Fire Inside .
Claressa Shields: No, I was not. I didn’t want my life to be a secret. I want them to see how hard it was for me, how tough it was for me. I want them to see me lose my first fight and cry ...