Shields Rips McCaskill, Says She Would Go Down to 147 to Fight Her for Undisputed

Claressa Shields is not convinced that Jessica McCaskill wants to duke it out with her in the ring.

But if McCaskill, the undisputed champion at 147, is indeed game to do so, Shields says she would be more than willing to drop down to McCaskill’s weight.

Shields, a three-division champion from Flint, Michigan, is currently set to face Savannah Marshall for the undisputed middleweight championship on the provisional date of October 15, at the O2 Arena in London. Shields has been undisputed before at middleweight and junior middleweight,

“We know she (McCaskill) won’t come up to 154, because we know I was undisputed at ’54, so I can go down to ’54 whenever the hell I feel like it,” Shields said on The DAZN Boxing Show. “So no, that’s cap. That’s cap. If she want to fight me, we’re going to fight at 147 for all the belts, so I can be undisputed four times.

“Absolutely, absolutely, and they know that. And no you’re not going to put a weight restraint on me. I’m gonna make the weight…and rehydrate like I do for every other fight. I’ve never been into the ring more than 169 and I fought at 168. I’m not that big as everybody think. I’m just tall.”

Shields, however, doubts that the Chicago-based McCaskill is serious about fighting her, given the interactions she has had with McCaskill and her longtime trainer and manager Rick Ramos. McCaskill captured all the welterweight titles in August 2020 with a victory over Cecilia Braekhus; McCaskill defeated Braekhus again in their rematch the following year in March.

“That’s cap, that’s cap, that’s cap, she cap,” Shields said. “She and Rick Ramos is cap. I’ve seen them in person. Yes. They using my name to sell her because whenever you mention Claressa Shields, everybody clicking her. No.

“I saw them at a DAZN boxing show, they were both on the broadcasting team. First of all Jessica McCaskill didn’t even want to say hi, bye, looking me the wrong way, no nothing. Rick Ramos, I have some words for his [expletive]. So I had talked to him.

"He was, you know, ‘it’s just the internet and this and that’ and I was like, 'no, you were very disrespectful' and I want to tell you to your face for you to be as disrespectful as you is up on the internet, you don’t even say hey, how you doin’ Claressa no nothin’ …I wanted to let him know, like, are you and Jessica McCaskill, do y’all really want smoke? And he even said it, ‘ah she’s too small.’ Yeah I know. I know that. So quit talking about fighting me.”