Jessica McCaskill Takes Cecilia Brækhus to the Streets to Make History in Dethroning the Undisputed Welterweight Champion

In what was billed as Cecilia Brækhus’ historic bid for her 26th title defense to break Joe Louis’ consecutive championship defense record, WBC and WBA Super Lightweight Champion Jessica McCaskill (9-2, 3 KOs) was motivated to make her own history on the downtown streets of Tulsa, OK on Saturday evening.

Brækhus (36-1, 9 KOs) has seemed unstoppable throughout her career, breaking barriers in her adopted homeland of Norway after become holder of all major titles to becoming P4P Queen. At 38 years of age, she has shown that she is not immortal and breakable.

The 35 year old McCaskill came in with a solid plan to stop the Brækhus train, preasuring from the opening bell.

Despite an higher connect ratio McCaskill, McCaskill outworked the long time champion en route to a Majority Decision victory.

Official Scores: 97-94, 95-95, 97-93

The elated McCaskill stated, “This is for the fourth-grade-year-old homeless Jessica… This is for the little girl that just didn’t care what people thought about her and learned to love herself even though she was really weird.”

The reigning Super Lightweight Champion now has to decide which division she is keeping titles in, after becoming the 4th female to unify all major titles in a single weight division. She follows Brækhus, Katie Taylor, and Claressa Shields in holding all of the belts.

Is this the end for Brækhus? “If this is my last fight, I could leave women’s boxing and just say ‘I was a part of this. I was a part of taking women’s boxing to this level.'”

CasKilla is now lined up for her desired rematch with Unified Lightweight Champion Taylor, assuming that she gets past her much anticipated rematch with Delfine Persoon next Saturday in the UK.

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