The purpose of the ESPN Body ... why the Body Issue shoot of America's top female boxer and one of the best boxers in the world is so incredible. Team USA boxer Claressa Shields' Body Issue ...

Boxer Claressa Shields took to Instagram on Monday, March 17, to celebrate her milestone 30th birthday with an elegant photoshoot that showed off a different side of the champion athlete.

"I agreed to do Body because I wanted to show my beautiful side and my strong side," Shields told ESPN. "With me being a boxer, I always look mean, and all you really focus on is my fist.