Our girl, two-time Olympic gold medalist and champion boxer Claressa Shields, is definitely talking her ish! In a recent interview, the boxing phenom put up a cool $100,000, daring any woman who thinks they can “whoop her a**!” She also weighed in on her history with Laila Ali, touched on rapper Remy Ma, and gushed about her boo, Papoose.
During the December 5 episode of Justin Laboy’s podcast, ‘#RESPECTFULLY: The Justin Laboy Show,’ Claressa Shields spoke on everything from her undeniable GWOAT status (Greatest Woman Of All Time) to her ongoing drama with legendary boxer Laila Ali and rapper Remy Ma, plus details on her relationship with Remy’s estranged husband, Grammy-nominated rapper Papoose.
The GWOAT didn’t shy away from her long-standing beef with famed boxer Laila Ali. When Laboy brought up Shields calling Ali a “Bitter Betty” and claiming she “wasted her time” with a 28-minute online rant about Shields’ $15 million boxing request, Shields doubled down, saying Ali was still just ducking the smoke.
“She’s 47. I’m 30. I’m pound-for-pound number one fighter in the world. Just let it go. Let it go. I made my video back to clear the air, and let the people know, ‘Don’t be fooled by that bull crap, lies. People fabricating a story and mixing up storylines and stuff. Don’t be fooled by that.
She’s not going to fight against me. And guess what? It’s bigger and better fish to fry. That’s cool. It’s not stopping nothing. With her video, she tried to defame my character. She spoke about things outside of boxing.”
But the real tea dropped when Shields put $100,000 on the line. After Laboy asked about some “girl in some hood thinking she’s tough and could beat these boxers up,” Shields offered up a challenge:
“No. I got 100K for any girl that can whoop my a**. She can come out to my gym. I have a 100K right there. She whoop me, I’ll give her 100K. Now, [if] she lose, she can get the f**k on. But, I know for a fact, a chick off the street can’t whoop me. Girls who train their whole life can’t whoop me. What the hell somebody on the street going to do?
Listen, I don’t care about how much boxing experience they got, who they train with, if they did coke [cocaine] before we fought, I don’t care what you’re talking about. You whooping my a** is not… Listen, I don’t think there’s a lot of men that can beat me.”
No Remy Ma Collab? Claressa Shields Opens Up About Her Ride-or-Die Papoose
Beyond the ring and the beefs, Shields got candid about her man, Grammy-nominated rapper Papoose. She dished on her intense love for him, calling him her “crash out protector.” Shields shared how she was single for a couple of months before meeting Pap, and now loves him dearly, explaining:
“I love Pap, asa far as how he supports my career, how he supports me, how he’s my best friend, how we can talk about anything, how we laugh, how we work out together, how protective he is. People think that because I’m very strong, and I’m very confident…
I do have my times where I’m very frustrated and I’m having a hard time, and Pap is there to protect me and hold me, and make sure that I’m good. Because I will crash out. Nobody’s seen that on the internet. Pap has seen me crash out before. He’s seen me be really mad. He’s seen me scream. He’s seen me yell. He’s seen me go off and he’s been the person to keep me calm.”
And on the topic of Papoose’s estranged wife, rapper Remy Ma? Laboy asked Shields, who’s also venturing into her own rap career, if she’d ever squash their beef and hop on a track with Remy. Her answer was a firm, “No.” When asked why not, she replied,
“Well, one, we’re in two different time zones [generations]. And I don’t know a lot of her music, just to be fair. But, [there are] girls I would collab with now: Latto, GloRilla. Like, GloRilla is more my speed. More of my speed is Megan Thee Stallion. Cardi [B]. Bia. Talking about girls that are beefing. You know what I’m saying? But, I’mma work my way up to that.”
Laboy clarified, “So, we never seeing the Claressa and Remy collab?” Shields quipped:
“That’s just something you wanted to ask. You know that wasn’t the [?] question. Now something with me and Pap? Yes. We do not have a song together yet. No, we don’t. And me and him was talking about that the other day because we spend so much time together you would think we have everything together, but we don’t. I don’t even think it dawned on him and it didn’t dawn on me. But, when he asked me, I’m like, ‘We don’t. Like, are you gonna rap about me?’ Like, I mentioned him in some of my raps that I haven’t released. But, we haven’t done a song together yet.”
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