Comments Thread For: Claressa Shields to Take Aim at Fourth Division Title, at 175 Pounds, on July 27

[The D3vil]

War gwoat!!!

[hitmanjosh]

Claressa Shields will get my support just because I love her and she has so many haters and much of it has to do with her skin tone not talent and we all know it's not an even playing field. I will always support her or anyone with the confidence she has in self, plus she's my sister! Get mad at that MF'ers

[Boxing2695]

Yeah womens boxing above 147lbs is absolutely dead. She'd of made more money and got bigger fighters trying to get down there then pumping up to 170+lbs to fight for the heavyweight title where there's a grand total of 20 fighters and the top 5 have records of like 1-2-1 loool

[Oregonian]

No, she shouldn't. She'd get knocked out. We already saw Lucia Rijker try to fight men and compared to Shields she hit like a truck. Didn't go well.

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I’m just repeating what she says herself. She said she can beat Thurman and called him all sorts of names to get him to fight her.
She asked for it so I hope she gets it.

[famicommander]

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I’m just repeating what she says herself. She said she can beat Thurman and called him all sorts of names to get him to fight her.
She asked for it so I hope she gets it.

She's just hyping herself up. She's not dumb enough to take that fight.

[James Hunt]

Female boxing above 147 is a joke.

[The Big Dunn]

I probably will not watch. I hope she can win. Would a be a huge accomplishment in this area.

[sidefx996]

Claressa Shields will get my support just because I love her and she has so many haters and much of it has to do with her skin tone not talent and we all know it's not an even playing field. I will always support her or anyone with the confidence she has in self, plus she's my sister! Get mad at that MF'ers

So convenient and easy to just blame her complete lack of popularity on skin tone (as usual) because that requires ZERO accountability on her part. Has nothing to do with the fact that in the amatuers she was 64-1 with all of FIVE knockouts, and she's 14-0 with, count 'em, TWO knockouts in the pros. Has nothing to do with how completely cringeworthy she is pretty much any time she opens her mouth. Stuff like running her mouth (as usual) and getting knocked out by a guy in sparring, then lying about him removing the padding from his gloves and going to her car to get a knife and threatening to stab him lol. Nothing to do with when she was allowed to train at a small local South Florida gym by me, I'm pretty sure for free, and in return they just asked she put a small gym patch on her trunks to rep the gym. In return she flipped out and demanded an obscene amount of money and proceeded to badmouth the gym all over social media for absolutely no reason. They couldn't STAND her there. Even saw a well-known BLACK heavyweight, who mind you is a very nice person, dressed in a suit with his wife by his side, yell at the TV in front on everyone when she was on the undercard. As usual, she was whining about how no one appreciates her and how she doesn't get paid enough and he got up and yelled at the TV "BECAUSE YOU'RE A ***** AND EVERYONE HATES YOU!" Sure the fact that she gets hate for not being a beauty queen is mean because there's nothing she can do about that, but I promise you'd never hear that if she were a better person.

[anonymous2.0]

Shields trash talks everyone saying she's going to knock them out but she's never even comes close, it just gets tiresome hearing her claim she's going to knock her next opponent out and then cruises on points.

[hitmanjosh]

So convenient and easy to just blame her complete lack of popularity on skin tone (as usual) because that requires ZERO accountability on her part. Has nothing to do with the fact that in the amatuers she was 64-1 with all of FIVE knockouts, and she's 14-0 with, count 'em, TWO knockouts in the pros. Has nothing to do with how completely cringeworthy she is pretty much any time she opens her mouth. Stuff like running her mouth (as usual) and getting knocked out by a guy in sparring, then lying about him removing the padding from his gloves and going to her car to get a knife and threatening to stab him lol. Nothing to do with when she was allowed to train at a small local South Florida gym by me, I'm pretty sure for free, and in return they just asked she put a small gym patch on her trunks to rep the gym. In return she flipped out and demanded an obscene amount of money and proceeded to badmouth the gym all over social media for absolutely no reason. They couldn't STAND her there. Even saw a well-known BLACK heavyweight, who mind you is a very nice person, dressed in a suit with his wife by his side, yell at the TV in front on everyone when she was on the undercard. As usual, she was whining about how no one appreciates her and how she doesn't get paid enough and he got up and yelled at the TV "BECAUSE YOU'RE A ***** AND EVERYONE HATES YOU!" Sure the fact that she gets hate for not being a beauty queen is mean because there's nothing she can do about that, but I promise you'd never hear that if she were a better person.

I can agree with some of your assessment but she’s not a bad person and gets a bad rap often for things not mentioned. I’m speaking of unequal pay and treatment from the very beginning and this May very well be why she acts out for the attention that she never received after her amateur credentials. I have never had a bad experience with her, so I appreciate what she brings and I could care less if she doesn’t knock anyone out, many fighters come to mind that couldn’t put a dent in a piece of pie but never received the same hate. I do feel we are both entitled to our very own opinion about how we feel about fighters etc.