Comments Thread For: Claressa Shields Feels Boxing is Sexist, Influenced Move To Explore MMA

[NaijaD]

Pay in sport has always been about what you can generate in terms of revenue not how good you actually are or what you’ve accomplished. Shields and the whole WNBA need this drilled into their heads.

[VashDBasher]

Let her fight some small men in exhibitions for money.

Moonsri, and if she gets past him, flyweights, superfly, etc.

Lmao. That’s actually not a bad idea. You’re on to something.

[Oldskoolg]

Lopez is an international superstar. He has a U.S following, an entire country behind him and he’s one of the most beloved boxers in Latin America.

What an odd comment. Lopez is from NYC not Latin America. His country is the USA, where he fights and lives. This comment makes no sense in itself and certainly doesn’t even seem in the same ballpark of the original post.....

[Mindgames]

People like Shields just dont get that it's an entertainment sport,and womens boxing isn't entertainment to most people .That's why Katie Taylor is inserted into a big fight card,because she cant sell on her own.The real sexism is making people like her fighter of the year.They couldn't beat a southern area champion, but make more money.Thats sexist then.

[Oldskoolg]

Imagine how much marketable she'd be if she was 10-0 (10KO) instead of 10-0 (2KO) so really its her fault

Exactly what I always say. Women need to train more to generate power like female fighters in the 90s did

[VashDBasher]

Shields is another one of those female athletes whose head has inflated too much and has gotten full of herself. This is the same woman who claimed she’d beat Thurman and give Golovkin a run.

[ShaneMosleySr]

Boxing is sexist.

A championship fight for men lasts 36 minutes.

A championship fight for women lasts 20 minutes.

That’s sexism.

Sorry to disappoint everyone.

Now does she deserve more money? Only if she can get more people to watch her fight.

[Coachcody]

No knockouts in women's boxing.......although Clarissa makes a good point that rounds should be 3 minutes.

[Phill lynott]

With all my respect to women's boxing, that comment doesn't help. Stop crying and do whay it takes to promote yourself if it's the money you want. 6 figures is nothing to hold your nose at. There are thousands of boxers male and female that dream of that kind of payday.

[Calibaloc]

Wrong. The problem is all the sporting authorities are in a mad race to be seen to be embracing and promoting women's sport, leapfrogging whether the respective sports have merit, enough viewership etc.

Here in Australia, in just 2 years, Women's netball, cricket, and any other sport almost always lead the sports bulletin. Sometimes we get almost nothing from men's sport, especially on our left-leaning public broadcaster.

They are blatantly pushing the feminist agenda without a whimper, and I'm angered that when I watch sports round ups, or sports analysis, it almost always stacked with women's sport.

More ludicrously, they are demanding equal pay in a system where you get paid based on the popularity of your sports brand and your own brand.
They don't care as usual because they never listen to reason.

Sport is actually being hijacked yet again by militant feminist agenda's which is no longer on the fringe but part of the norm.

Don't dare criticise or even offer a polite critical observation, otherwise, you are a misogynist.

Political messaging is flooding our film industry, everything, in a mass assualt take no prisoners fashion.

I hope the balance redress' itself because right now, every day the top story is women f*^king netball, women are victims of men, women need cancer support, women need this and that, and yet all they do is dig in and pour out the same old victim feminist rhetoric.

PREACH MY BROTHER PREACH!

"They(women) dont care as usual because they never listen to reason"
Truer words have never been spoken.