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Key points: - Troy Isley, an unbeaten Olympic-pedigree middleweight, faces Joseph Hicks on the undercard - Danielle Perkins meets Olivia Curry, a rematch angle since Curry just lost her titles to Scott in December - Caroline Veyre defends her WBC women’s super featherweight title on the same card - Ernesto Mercado, unbeaten, tests veteran Emmanuel Tagoe at super lightweight More than a Shields showcase State Farm Arena’s first women’s headliner comes with a genuinely stacked undercard underneath it, not just a collection of easy wins built around the main event. Troy Isley’s continued rise Isley carries real pedigree into his fight with Joseph Hicks, having represented the US at the 2020 Olympics before turning professional. He’s the kind of technically polished prospect worth tracking regardless of what happens above him on the card. A quiet rematch storyline Danielle Perkins faces Olivia Curry in a matchup with more context than it first appears. Curry lost her WBC and WBA middleweight titles to Kaye Scott by majority decision just last December, making this her first fight back since that defeat, against a Shields sparring veteran looking to make a statement of her own. A title fight hiding in plain sight Caroline Veyre defends her WBC women’s super featherweight title against Bernice Ferreira, giving the card a second genuine championship fight beyond the main event. One that’s easy to overlook given how much attention Shields understandably absorbs. The litmus test fight Ernesto Mercado, still unbeaten, gets a real test against veteran Emmanuel Tagoe, a durable operator who’s shared the ring with names far bigger than his own reputation suggests. It’s exactly the kind of “how good is he really” fight prospects need on the way up.