The Breakfast Club sit down with Claressa Shields, the undefeated world champion boxer and two-time Olympic gold medalist, she opens up about her journey, the challenges she's faced, and the upcoming biopic "The Fire Inside." Listen for more!
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Wake that ass up in the morning.
Speaker 2 (00:02):
The Breakfast Club.
Speaker 3 (00:05):
Morning, everybody is seej Envy, Jess Hilarious, Charlamagne the guy.
We are the Breakfast Club, not Justice on maternity leave.
So we have Laura La Rosa with us this morning,
and we got a special guest in the building. Ship
is here, Clarissa Shields. Ladies and gentlemen.
Speaker 2 (00:18):
What's up, champ?
Speaker 3 (00:19):
Hey y'all, how you feeling?
Speaker 1 (00:21):
I feel good? Thank y'all for having me here.
Speaker 4 (00:22):
Listen, Floriza came in here with the two kids. I said, O,
you're flying out after this? She said, no, this is
all my belts. That's right, her belts.
Speaker 2 (00:31):
This is only three of them. You got up here
four four four?
Speaker 5 (00:33):
Huh?
Speaker 1 (00:34):
I got fifteen of them though.
Speaker 2 (00:35):
Fifteen of them? Damn?
Speaker 4 (00:36):
How did it feel winning world championships in five different
weight classes? You just won your fourth and fifth world title?
Speaker 1 (00:42):
This?
Speaker 2 (00:42):
How did it feel?
Speaker 1 (00:43):
You know? It feels good? You know it feels good
to even more like shut the haters up. They always
been hating for a long time, and I keep proving
them that I am the greatest woman of all time.
Can't none of these girls whoop me? None of them? Man, No,
weight class.
Speaker 4 (00:55):
Only you and Roy Jones Junior have won the middleweight
and heavyweight championships in over a century. Have you really
stopped to think about how historic that is?
Speaker 3 (01:06):
NA?
Speaker 1 (01:06):
See, I'm like, I'm a little emotional, so I get
the crying and stuff, so I don't let myself do that.
But it's a big deal and I got I got
more fish to fire because I want to be undisputed
at heavyweight too. What keeps you in that mode though,
where you like, I got more fish to firework because
you accomplished so much.
Speaker 6 (01:22):
What keeps you motivated?
Speaker 1 (01:23):
Well? I think I say motivated because I'm young, and
it's always like somebody, like a girl saying that she
can beat me. And when a girl say that, it'd
be like, well, I know the feeling, you know, I
want you to I want to give you a try,
and I actually love fighting. So I just got the
biggest knockout of my career about two weeks ago. But
I have been working so hard for that, Like I
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have been beating these girls unanimously, dropping them, winning ninety
to one hundred, you know, ninety two, one hundred and
one too. Now it's like I finally, like, you know,
put somebody to sleep, and it was like, that's what
I want to do in all my fights.
Speaker 2 (01:58):
People really still think they can beat you seriously.
Speaker 6 (02:01):
Every time by the top, they gotta come at her
like that.
Speaker 1 (02:03):
I think it's I think that they think that, but
they don't really feel that. You know, like people just
be talking because whenever I come with the smoke to somebody,
then they energy switch up like, oh no, that ain't
what I mean. Like, no, that's what you meant, and
I want you to stand on it.
Speaker 3 (02:17):
Do you think people supporting women's boxing a lot more? Now?
You see more and more people at the fights. It's
more on television, people talking about it more. Do you
feel like you still got a long way to go?
Speaker 1 (02:25):
Nah? No, No, I'm making a million dollars pay days
a Turkish I'll even know who I am. You want
to do a fight, Oh wow, I got a movie
coming out by my Life the Fir Inside December twenty fifth.
Women's boxing is getting to just do Are we owe
more of one hundred percent? Well, right now my purse
is a million, and hopefully I can get it to
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five million, ten, fifteen, twenty and maybe one day fight
for a million dollars like flood maylother.
Speaker 2 (02:51):
Did you know what was so interesting about the fight?
Speaker 4 (02:54):
Like most people seem like they get a little slow
when they move up and wait, yeah.
Speaker 2 (02:58):
I feel like man was faster.
Speaker 4 (03:01):
I was showing my man to punch because I was
watching the fight live and I was watching it realized
I was showing my dude my trainer because he didn't
see He didn't see one of the punches. You too,
And I'm like, no, it was you gotta watch this
punch that dropped her. And he was like, god, damn,
she was fast. It feel like you got quicker.
Speaker 1 (03:17):
You know what. The girl was punching at me so fast,
and it was like, hey, I am coming up from middleway,
so don't get it confused. Like I'm like, I don't
even want to get hit by her in here. So
when she ran up on me and tried to sneak
me after the ref broke because and she ran upon me,
I was like, whoa. She was swinging so hard. If
you would have felt unpunched, you would have felt disrespected.
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I felt the wind coming across my head and then
before I knew it, I was just spiring back.
Speaker 2 (03:42):
Damn.
Speaker 1 (03:42):
And then she was going down. But uh, shout out
touch to Cory Stevenson because I send him my sparring.
When I sparred against this guy up in Atlanta. His
name is Demetrius, and I called him the Bear. He
was one hundred and ninety pounds and I sparred against him,
and I sent the court a sparring because Dimitris had
roughed me up and he said, you got to use
your frames more so when you see the punch after
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I knocked it on the first time, and then I
ran back up on her again and I turned her.
That's called a frame. So I framed her up, line
her up with the right hand, and that's all. I
doue to s Court because he literally sent me a
video and everything like this is what you need to
be doing when somebody is crowding your space and you
need to line them up for your shots. So shout
out to my brother.
Speaker 6 (04:21):
For sure.
Speaker 2 (04:22):
I love that.
Speaker 3 (04:23):
Do more boxes do that way? But it's like, yo,
let me let me run this byue look at the
strain and what can I do better? What can I
do worse? What should I be doing to make myself
be able to be a better boxer?
Speaker 1 (04:32):
You know I do that, and I only share my
sparing clips with Shakur and Terrence Crawford, like I don't
really send my sparing clips out to nobody, like to
get feedback from. I feel like Terrence Crawford and Shakur
are better boxers than me, you know what I'm saying.
I feel like Charkur like skill wise, you know what
I'm saying. Charkurt feel like I got attributes that he
want and he has the attributes that I want, So
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I just kind of go back and forth with him.
Like Terrence has that patience that I've been wanting for
so long, like I don't. I don't have too much
pacience in the ring, Like I got the first round,
like let's scrap, and it's like Terrence, he'll he'll go
in the patients the first two or three rounds and
then sleep you the fifth rounds.
Speaker 3 (05:10):
Did you see buzz last fight? What do you think?
Speaker 2 (05:12):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (05:13):
I seen it. I thought that Madre Doff was an
awkward fighter, you know, I thought he was very awkward.
All that bouncing. I think that also too, Like I
don't think that Terrence has fully settled into the one
fifty four division like he has to that was his
first fight. I think his second fight, he'll know how
to prepare better for a guy of that size, because
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even for me, how I got roughed up in Spawn
was I wasn't used to the body with like this
dude is one ninety and the girl I'm going to
be fighting against his coming in, She's going to come
in that one ninety. But it's a bigger body, it's
bigger arms, so and it's a different game plan. So
I think that a Terrence did what he had to do.
I seen him win in to fight, clearly, But a
Madre Doff he wasn't no pushover, And just because he
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had ten fights didn't mean he was no pushover.
Speaker 2 (06:00):
That's how I be feeling about you. You're fifteen at all, right, three.
Speaker 1 (06:03):
Knockouts, but I feel like you've had more fights.
Speaker 2 (06:05):
I don't know why I do.
Speaker 1 (06:07):
Mm A yeah, yeah, two on one, I should be
three And oh I thought I won that fight. But
you know what, at the end of the day, if
I was to spend a year, two years just practicing
none but Mma, I'll watch all them girls.
Speaker 3 (06:24):
Are you doing with MMA?
Speaker 1 (06:26):
No? I think I got one more fight with them?
When more fight and then they may come with a
new contract. But in a way it's so weird, like
I'll be telling myself not to say it, because anything
I speak, it always come true. But I I want
to take off a year and a half two years
of boxing and spend it on nothing but MMA. And
I want to fight in a PFL tournament and become
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PFL World champion at the same time as being boxing champion.
And I always get mad at myself because it's like, girl,
mma is not your thing, you know, like you're a
great fighter, you love fighting, but MMA is not your thing.
Speaker 6 (07:00):
You know.
Speaker 1 (07:01):
It's actually harder than boxing to me. But I still
find a way to beat these girls up.
Speaker 2 (07:07):
You always moving up in weigh classes, like you said,
you just you did?
Speaker 4 (07:10):
Mm me, do you do that because there's not enough
competition for you in women's boxing.
Speaker 1 (07:15):
No, it's plenty of competition. These girls are scary. I mean,
like listen, I told the girls that have forty seven
and fifty four, y'all put y'all belts up, and y'all
want to fight against me, I would get my fat
ass down there with y'all. Will I will lose the weight,
But it gotta make money, and it gotta make sense.
But to go to forty seven, which I haven't thought
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that yet, to go there would make me a six
time division world champ. But I ain't just finna go
there just to say I went there.
Speaker 2 (07:41):
I lose your power if you dropped down that much.
Speaker 1 (07:44):
I think it depends on how to lose the weight.
I have a great nutrition team shout out to perfect
the athletes. I've been working with them for so many years.
People was telling me that I couldn't make one hundred
and fifty four, and my nutrition is like, actually, Christia,
you can make one forty seven. I'm like, y'all alone,
y'all alive. But they was like, but if you only
want to go down to fifty four, that's what we
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get you down to. They and they got me down
there two or times.
Speaker 6 (08:08):
How hard is that to make like certain weights?
Speaker 1 (08:11):
Oh no, it's very hard. I mean you look like
you naturally skinning your whatever. Yeah, I am, you know,
but people in my family are not. Okay, if it
didn't work out, I'd be big as a house.
Speaker 2 (08:21):
Eating.
Speaker 1 (08:22):
I mean, it gets shape is great, but I don't
know that probably doesn't like does that affect you like
having that family history.
Speaker 6 (08:28):
I don't know what you're eating is like, like is
it certain times?
Speaker 1 (08:30):
Are you?
Speaker 2 (08:31):
Like?
Speaker 6 (08:31):
Man, I just wish I could just do a burger
to that into.
Speaker 1 (08:35):
Well, it's it's a thing of like one. I'm trying
to build a healthy relationship with food because of my
family history. But for me, I've been an athlete my
whole life. So I've lost thirty five pounds for a
fight within seven weeks, you know, I've lost forty pounds.
But I do that because I'm extra locked in on
my goal. Now, I just tell myself not to get
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so heavy, do right, I have to lose all that weight,
but if I was to go down to forty seven,
it would be hard, and it consists of a lot
of greens, grains, protein, and water. You know, people think
that you supposed to eat less and drink less when
you losing weight, and it's actually the complete opposite. You know,
I still can eat four times a day with portion
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meals and drink a gallon of water a day or
even a gallon and a half when I'm losing weight.
So it's not really a thing of people go down
to those weight classes and they're starving themselves. My nutrition
teams don't let me do that. They're like, look, you
gotta eat even when I'm not hungry. They're like, you've
got to force yourself to eat. Like my stomach is
getting smaller. I may eat the meat. They're like, no,
you need to eat the vegetables and eat the grains.
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So I have a very strict nutrition team and they're like,
this is what we have to do. So once they
tell me that what we have to do, I do that.
They do their job and I do my job, which
is trained and get prepared for the fight because rather
no matter what weight I'm at, it's still my job
to fight and then of course to win.
Speaker 3 (09:56):
Do you always watch you food? Because I seen you
in Shreveport. There wasn't too many healthy eyes I travel
because that's a that it was a.
Speaker 1 (10:02):
Lot of Probably. No, Like I'm off of fighting right now.
I just won two weeks ago, so I can eat
it all. I went to Orlando, shout out to them.
Speaker 3 (10:11):
He went to Orlando's Out and now Street Port. Oh
my god, I love that place.
Speaker 1 (10:14):
Wasn't all the best food I had in a minute?
Speaker 4 (10:17):
He was once to be fire for the last fight though, right, yeah,
I read that you gained fifteen pounds of muscle.
Speaker 1 (10:23):
I did. I actually got up to from my weight
class where I was at. I got up to one
hundred and eighty and I had to lose five pounds
to get back down in seventy five. But all the
all the way that I gained was man, it was nothing.
I was squatting two hundred and fifty pounds, binging one
hundred eighty five pounds like hitting it one two and
now one hundred eighty five is it's heavy. I mean,
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I ain't gonna say he sayd for a woman, but
I remember when it was time when I couldn't even
hit one thirty five. So if we had to hit
one thirty five ten twelve times and didn't go up
to fifty and to be able to do one eighty
five twice, I was like, God, dang, I'm scared of myself.
Speaker 6 (10:57):
Yes, that's unique.
Speaker 4 (10:58):
You said something earlier til you say you're trying to
build a heavy relationship with food. Is that because you
came from a place where they had all these food
deserts and they didn't have the best food options.
Speaker 2 (11:07):
That was That's why.
Speaker 1 (11:08):
No uh Diarbetes and hert problems running my family. So
I just don't want to deal with that, you know.
I'm hoping that genetically when I have my kids that
they don't have to deal with that. So I want
to be as healthy as as as I can be
so it don't pass down to them like I have.
I have a I have a leg disease, Like I
don't have any courlage around my patilla. Really we can
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pop out all the time. Hey, it doesn't happen, you know. So,
but the doctor just told me that what I just
located on my knee in twenty nineteen and he x
rayed and he said, I'm surprised it hasn't popped out
more because you don't have no bone around it. And
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I was like, really, I'm like, it's never It's never
happened to me. He like, you never like made a
false step and it went to pop up. I'm like, Nah,
just just just happen.
Speaker 3 (12:00):
So well, maybe you shouldn't have said that. So now
your opponent will be like, I'm going right for the knees.
Speaker 1 (12:03):
Opponent's gonna get here right in the mouth, Okay.
Speaker 4 (12:09):
Will you be fighting right like your last fight and
you said she was coming at you, how hard is
it to not resort back to just the street like
just thinking, oh I'm being attacked, just focusing and.
Speaker 2 (12:19):
Doing what Chicord told you to do or what you've
been trained to do.
Speaker 1 (12:22):
I'm a natural born street fighter, like I street fight
better than I by Why was telling these girls in
the streets, you do not want to mess with me
in the streets like I fight to kill? Like nah,
I got the same mindset and side of the ring
and outside of the ring when it when it comes
to a fight, and that's to what is that to
dismant for you, to get you off me, to to
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stop the fight. I got the same mentality in boxing
mm A and street fighting. It really doesn't. It really
doesn't change for me now up in the street fight.
It's winn at any means necessary. If I got to
hit your side your head with a brick, I will,
but don't everything. I'm coming into no fight at a disadvantage.
But you you're not just out here like fighting in
the streets. Girl, Dude, dude, I got on the first
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sight you girls you're great.
Speaker 6 (13:05):
Yeah, that's what I'm saying.
Speaker 1 (13:07):
A street fight you gotta get take it back to
fight as long as it's okay, because the way you
said it made it sound a little recent. I'm like,
it's no too much. Put it on me, see not
saying somebody pull up on you. You got like, why would
you pull up on her? This is the thing. When
I was in Atlanta training at Hatsfield Gym, I had
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these two coaches coach coach type find me sparing. I
don't know much about Atlanta. I would just do my
first training camp there. So I told them my own
spot against men. So they got me two men, and
then for some reason they got her. They didn't know
that she was a troll, and she ain't making it
known to them either. She had what talking trashing December.
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If I showed you the d M, you be like
this crazy like this girl talking about something, be on
the knock you out, be you will bump. You only
got what you got because I went to prison for
three years and I beat all the girls who you beating?
The pros and the amateurs. I'm like, what is wrong
with this girl? So I told her like, look this
address in my gym and Flint. Come to Flint and
I and I'll work with you. And then all of
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a sudden she's like ever working all like like I
want to fight. I'm like, you're not even pro. But
come to find out, she was zero. She's zero on
zero on Box Red, so she's a professional fighter. But
she I have came to the gym getting ready to
spar and she in a gym warming up. I'm like,
oh my god, oh she was ready for action. I said,
this is how this is how you. First of all,
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I got almost a million followers on social media on Instagram, right,
how can I recognize you out of a million people?
That means you did way too much. That's how I
recognized you. So when I see her, I said, oh, well,
this this girl. And I walk up she and then
I walk up. I'm like, what you're doing here? She's like,
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you know what, I came here, foe. I said, you're
here just me? She said yeah. I said no, you're not.
He said yes, Sam. I said, I think I called
her to B word and I said, you know, you
know I'm about to fuck you up, right, And she
just looking at me, and then she got the yelling,
popping stuff, just talking talking, talking, and everybody was like, Chris,
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just go get dressed. I'm like, I'm gonna give you
one round. She was like, try to leave, grab her suitcase.
All I don't want one round me two rounds. I'm like,
you're not gonna last past the first one. I'm telling you.
I'm telling you that now. Never seen a girl fight
dad in my life. I just knew. Man, you're talking
to the pound pound best woman fighter in the world.
You think you can't do anything with me, You're crazy.
I went and got dressed. I told her. I said, yeah,
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I gave you rounds. Went there thirty seconds over.
Speaker 2 (15:41):
Yeah, one of them punch she I think she realized
she was in over.
Speaker 6 (15:45):
Yeah, the first one, probably right.
Speaker 2 (15:50):
No more.
Speaker 1 (15:53):
Actually, when I hit her, I jumped at her and
she got the bounce and she said, come on with it.
I said, I am just hold on, and then soon
she got right by that corner. It was over. I
hit on a body shot too. I think she kind
of went to the bathroom a little bit.
Speaker 3 (16:09):
You never heard from again, No.
Speaker 1 (16:11):
She wrote me. She wrote, she said, you're only landed
two shots. I'm like, okay, I'm like, you crazy for show.
And then she was like, why are you untagged.
Speaker 3 (16:24):
Me on the post?
Speaker 1 (16:27):
I said, because you reported my video I'm trying to
get my Instagram to No. She was like, no, I
didn't do that. I said, yes, you did. You're the
only person who want tag I know you. You reported
my video, so that's why I untagged you. I'm like,
but go on world Star like like they didn't tag you,
but you can tag yourself in the coming because your
dumb ass made World Star.
Speaker 2 (16:46):
What means more to you?
Speaker 4 (16:47):
Being a world champion at five different weight classes and
winning two Olympic gold medals?
Speaker 1 (16:54):
Oh wow? Wow?
Speaker 2 (16:57):
Why you that? Cause somebody asked Melo Anthony the same thing.
Speaker 1 (17:01):
But you know what, shout out to Mellow, honestly, like,
none of this would be possible without, yeah, my purse?
Speaker 2 (17:14):
What at another belt?
Speaker 3 (17:15):
Olympic medals in the purse? Yeah?
Speaker 1 (17:16):
I carry my stuff around? Wow, epic?
Speaker 2 (17:19):
Why do you carry your stuff?
Speaker 1 (17:20):
Because who else can pull out the purse? You ain't?
Speaker 2 (17:26):
Can I hold it? Yeah?
Speaker 1 (17:28):
Heavy?
Speaker 6 (17:29):
I can't see the yeah yeah yeah wow.
Speaker 4 (17:34):
Because they asked Mellow, what means more like when you
trade his three medals for NBA championship.
Speaker 2 (17:40):
That's what they as well.
Speaker 1 (17:41):
Honestly, like, none of this would be possible without me
winning the Olympics, right, you know, like me being a
world chapp and all these different way classes. It all
started with winning the Olympics at seventeen twenty twelve, and
then it continued with twenty sixteen. So I feel like
if I wasn't a two time Olympic champion and I
was trying to turn pro without my two Olympic gold medals,
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it would have been super hard for me because when
I fought on TV twenty sixteen or seventeen, a woman
hadn't fought on TV in twenty years. Wow, Like a
woman boxer hadn't fought on TV in twenty years, which
is like, I, yeah, I got the I got to
be the one to change the game, but I wouldn't
have been able to get the opportunity, I think, even
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though as being a great as a boxer as I am,
if I didn't have the accolades the two Olympic gold
medals to back it up.
Speaker 3 (18:30):
What did you think about the Olympics controversy this year?
Speaker 4 (18:34):
Oh my god, talking about a main Klifherian boxing. Yeah,
she's a woman, but she tested with X Y chromosomes.
Speaker 1 (18:42):
Yes, I'm crazy like that, you know what. Honestly, I
hate that they ran with the whole transgender thing, and
they did what they did to her in the Olympics
because I couldn't imagine me being in the Olympics and
me getting ready to fight and people are like, oh,
you're a man, like I couldn't imagine that, And it's
like the post supposed to be the most exciting time
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of her life. So everybody had misinformation. And I think
that she's right to sue whoever started the whole thing.
Like I heard she's suing Eli Musk and somebody else. Yeah,
girl get that money, and she got a gold medal too,
so a congrats to her. But to the girl who like, oh,
she hit me hard than I've ever been hit before.
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Soft damn soft, Hang it up. You shouldn't even be
in the ring. I spar against me and I ain't
never been hit at herd where I'm like, let me
get the hell out of here, ever, and I've been
hit you where I couldn't you for three days and
with like a hook, so I'm like, I still didn't
get ot the ring, like, man, yeah, he hit me
so hard. I just what that's soft?
Speaker 3 (19:43):
Would you fight him if the money was right?
Speaker 6 (19:48):
A man talking to.
Speaker 1 (19:52):
You saying Would I fight her? Would she fight me? What?
Come on? Stop playing?
Speaker 3 (19:58):
The money was right?
Speaker 1 (19:59):
The money, that's right? What are you talking about?
Speaker 2 (20:01):
Because you know she's lost like nine times because.
Speaker 1 (20:04):
She got a ex ye whatever, She's born a woman,
she's a woman. A woman can't beat me? What that's crazy?
Would you fight her? If I say, line them up
from what I've seen her box and I'm like, she
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couldn't beat the seventeen year old Claressa no matter what. Wait,
I think she's like a one forty seven? Please? You
is just crazy?
Speaker 2 (20:31):
So you still want to fight a mailboxer?
Speaker 1 (20:34):
Some of them they be running their mouth. I still
want to put my hands on.
Speaker 2 (20:36):
A few of them. Yeah.
Speaker 3 (20:37):
Cool.
Speaker 1 (20:37):
In particular Keith Thurman, I want to punch him in
his mouth. And I don't care what y'all say. Jake Paul,
can I beat me in a fight? Stop it did?
You'll watch the fight with Mike Perry skills pett of
bills and Mike Perry was not skilled at all, he argreed,
and muscle Jake Paul he so you him.
Speaker 2 (20:57):
I said this before I got Clarissa over. Jake Paul.
Speaker 1 (21:00):
Come on, man, you definitely don't think he's gonna be Tyson,
then Tyson fifty eight. We see this is what this
may may be mad with y'all. This is not an
eighteen year old Tyson twenty one thirty, This is fifty eight.
Speaker 2 (21:16):
Yeah, he don't get no scrapes. If he beat Mike Tyson,
you probably got.
Speaker 1 (21:19):
Like a good one, two, three, good rounds in them.
And if you don't like Jake Paul out, then would
I'm gonna have to fight Jake Paul for really her
uncle Mike Tyson a couple in the ring.
Speaker 6 (21:30):
I support that.
Speaker 2 (21:30):
Well.
Speaker 1 (21:31):
I'm gonna be right front row.
Speaker 2 (21:32):
Don't Jake got a woman fighter too. I can't remember
her name. Somebody a woman?
Speaker 1 (21:36):
No woman. See, we're not going to Amanda Serrano name.
She thinks she wrote two point zero. But she's the
real deal. Amanda Serrano, seven time division world champ. Uh.
Great fighter, great fighter. I have a lot of respect
for her. Is she a better fighter than me? No?
Speaker 2 (21:57):
No?
Speaker 1 (21:57):
But uh, Jake Paul tries to call her the quote
and that's because he don't like me. But I'm gonna
keep shining on him and showing him like you got
baby quote big quote over here?
Speaker 2 (22:11):
Is that a fight? That will ever happen?
Speaker 1 (22:13):
Is she want to come to forty seven or fifty five? Yeah?
Speaker 2 (22:15):
She has now forty forty Okay, she.
Speaker 1 (22:18):
Went she came all the way from like one eighteen,
when one twelve and got all the titles from like
one eighteen? What is it? I think it's one eighteen
twenty six when thirty one thirty five, one forty Yeah,
I got it right.
Speaker 2 (22:31):
Why you don't like you just because you be telling
them you a woman? Yeah?
Speaker 1 (22:35):
And I said, I will never fight on the undercard
of him. He's not a world champion. How are you
mad at that? He's not an ex world champion either.
You're not gonna have to go fighting on an under
cardinal damn, Jake Paul. I don't care how big he
is or how many fans you got.
Speaker 2 (22:47):
No, but that's because you are. You're an actual boxer,
so you respect the sport.
Speaker 1 (22:51):
So I'm an actual champion champion. Yeah. I don't even
think a Mani Toround should be fighting undercard of him,
But it's like like that's her choice. A Manda Toronto
wasn't really that big till she got with Jake Paul,
so I think she's super grateful. For him, But in
real life, in real time, you're a seven time division
world champion, He's not. You should always be the top
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of the bill to show like that respect to the sport.
But hey, if she liked being on the under cart,
go ahead. But I'm not being on the car. Nobody
but champions, you know, champions, and that's Terrence Crawford, of course, Stevenson,
Devin Haney, guys like that, Canelosi. I'm not.
Speaker 4 (23:35):
I'm not being on the car, Jake Paul, Who you got, Davis?
Speaker 1 (23:41):
You don't know me already? I got your core, I
got It's not Tank. See, this is what I want
people to understand. Like, I'm not. I'm I'm not a
tank hater. People think that I am because we had
our little dispute or whatever. But Noah, like I love
our tank box. The dude got power, He explosive, he
fast sh the dude, he the full package. I think
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that's your cor is a better boxer now Withish your
court had to be on his a game to beat Jamonte. Yes,
I grew up. I came up in the amateurs with
Dravonte when we were like silver gloves and all that
stuff together. He used to get out boxing the amateurs.
You know what I'm saying. But he was always a powerhouse,
always the strongest, always explosive, but guys could still beat him.
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I think Court has to start to beat him, and
people are and the court it's tougher than what everybody
giving him credit for. Charkourt is the hell of a boxer,
and I don't it'd be a tough fight for both
of them, but I think that's your core will come
on on top, especially if he can avoid getting hit
and make them pay. That's what I've been talking to
sort about. Yeah, you make them miss, but make these
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dudes pay when they missed. Nobody should be swinging at
you and then nothing coming back. These guys should be
getting tatted up. So I feel like if he can
do that good versus Dravonte, I feel like he can win.
Speaker 2 (24:58):
But man if him though, that's the biggest thing.
Speaker 1 (25:02):
We I mean, you got to touch it more than
once too. We ain't never seen the quirk get dropped.
He got chanting.
Speaker 4 (25:08):
Defense is a mac That's why people say he's a
boring fighter. I'm like, nah, he's just a defensive fighter.
Speaker 1 (25:13):
Yeah, but defense is he max? I don't know what
everybody was talking about at the fighter been Jersey. But
I had a great time. I was in the second row.
I was like doing like live commentating from out listen.
He was whooping that dude. And then when the dude
got on his wheels, I was screaming because only time
about the Corbett on his wheels. Now he backing homeboy
up and got him running and ain't nobody give us
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the cording on props all but but he ain't knocked
him out, so he beat him up.
Speaker 3 (25:40):
About Canelo, Bologa, what's your dad? What's your thoughts?
Speaker 1 (25:44):
Hm? Hm ah. I wish Canelo was fighting against me
of you this. Yeah, I don't think that Bolonga is
a strong fighter. An that's a good fighter and he's
my friend. I just think that you don't have enough
experience to be in there with somebody. What is Canelo
fifty and something? Yeah, I don't know. I think that
belonger is young and stuff, but I think his experience
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is gonna be his downfall in that in that fight.
But he can't use this, you know, you from trying
to come out there strong and hard and push the
fight early and maybe get Canelo tired to where his
power don't be that effective. But no, I think I
think Canelo gonna do that. But I want to see
Canelo versus going to be there. That's the fight.
Speaker 4 (26:22):
You got your text, your text ready to December longer
after the fight, like keep your head up.
Speaker 2 (26:26):
When one door closes, another one opens.
Speaker 1 (26:29):
Nah you when I hit you with that, you know,
you know, like all right, No, I just know like
some fights is to be a long car ride home
in silence, and I think, you know, he may have
to experience that, but hopefully you got some good people
around the where it's a good little ride. Put some
music on and stuff.
Speaker 4 (26:48):
I was looking at box raw and they had you
as the number two greatest woman's boxer of all time
behind no box box raw boxraw dot com. Oh okay, okay, yeah,
behind Lucilla rich kerr Riker Riker.
Speaker 2 (27:04):
I'm sorry, Okay, you know, I don't know who. I've
never heard of. Lucia Riker. He was seventeen to fourteen.
Speaker 1 (27:10):
K Yeah, yeah, Lucia Riker was back in the day.
She's not a better fighter than me, but I mean
it's not a bad place to be number two to her.
I guess she's one of my favorite female fighters.
Speaker 4 (27:22):
What do you think you would have to do that
for them to put you at number one?
Speaker 1 (27:26):
I don't even care. It's a list of somebody who
made it up, who probably never boxed before. I don't know,
but I know as far as in me. You watch
Lucilla tape, and you watch my you watch my tapes,
and you watch all the other girls tapes, and you
look and you see what I can do and what
they can do, and I believe I come out on
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top every time. If you're looking at it from a
boxing standpoint. Now, if you're looking at it you like
my personality or my trash talk or all that stuff,
then maybe you be like, oh, yeah, she's not lady like,
let me bring her numbers down whatever. But if you're
looking at from just boxing standpoint, I box like I
box so good that Terrence called me twin. So that's
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the difference. Yeah, people get at you about like your
personality and you and you know that because I love it. Yeah, heavy,
people be you know, everybody can't talk like how I talk,
and it definitely came back it up. So I think
it comes off to be intimidating to them, and they
wish that they can be like me. But does it
heighten in the ring, like do you have an alter ego?
Or is it like, oh yeah, what you mean Claressa
(28:32):
right now? But Clrenzo is who I am inside the ring. Yeah, Clrenzo,
do not play like I start transforming in a locker room. Actually,
like the week of the fight, so Clrenzo be trying
to come out sometime and then like my assistant be
like Clrenzo, chill up. I'm all right, Like Clrenzo is
(28:54):
uh actually maybe maybe Clrenzo was like eight and mon CULI.
You know, it's not I don't say that Karenso is
a man. I don't say that Karenso is a woman.
It's just a person who I get inside the ring,
and I'm just myself, So I don't really put like
a gender on. I don't know if that's weird, but yeah,
I just don't put a gender on. I'm just going
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there and inside of the ring, I can be who
I really want to be. I don't have to, you know,
be nobody else. Or I think it's actually hard for
me to be nice because so many people get on
my nerves and I'm always having to be nice to them,
in life, people get on my nerves. I don't. I
don't like you the nicest people, Yes I am, but
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it's just like I do have to keep the peace, honestly.
Like some stuff, I'd be like Chris would just let
it go, don't even say nothing, because soon as somebody
do something I don't like, I'd be like, hold on,
I gotta check you right there in there. I can't
wait till tomorrow or the moment is like I gotta
get you right there in there. And people be with
(29:57):
this whole business. You gotta be professional and to keep
it cool. And that's actually like it'd be hard for
me to do.
Speaker 6 (30:05):
You feel like you have to do that because you're
a woman fighter, because I don't.
Speaker 1 (30:09):
I do that because I'm a professional. And also to
like I hurt people feelings like as you can see,
I don't buy my tongue or nothing like that, and
I don't even want to buy my tongue. It is
what it is.
Speaker 4 (30:21):
When does the t Rex come out? When does the
t Rex come out? They still call you t Rex?
Speaker 1 (30:27):
Right, it's the quote now.
Speaker 2 (30:29):
Okay, so you don't even use the t reck game, Okay.
Speaker 1 (30:33):
But people still call me that fifty call me that
you called me that in Close the shields Now. I
met fifty in Shreeport.
Speaker 3 (30:41):
That's the first time I met So.
Speaker 1 (30:43):
I met fifty here at the bar class. It was
a fight going on, but he just saw me and
was like t Rex, and I was like, but I
won't ever get no picture. I weren't really able to
holler at him, you know what I'm saying. I was
able to actually talk to him and holler at him
up in Streeport. So I'm happy that he followed me
from then till now.
Speaker 2 (31:04):
And you have a bio pic coming up, a real movie.
It's gonna be. It's ain't no TV shit. It's on.
It's called The Fire Inside.
Speaker 4 (31:12):
It's directed by Barry Jenkins and stars Ryan Destiny.
Speaker 2 (31:16):
How did that all come about?
Speaker 1 (31:19):
Oh no, that's crazy. They saw the movie t Rex,
my documentary, which was very raw and it's me I'm
being followed around at school to the Olympics and my
one loss in my home life. So they saw that
and they wanted to redo that, but in a movie way.
Speaker 2 (31:39):
So who saw it? Barry Jenkins?
Speaker 1 (31:41):
I think Barry Jenkins saw yes, And at the time
First University Studios picked it up then with COVID and
everything happened. MGM Studios picked it up. Wow, so that's
what I have the movie now. It dropped on Christmas
all over theaters in the world, actually not just the USA,
but man, it's crazy. So they were asking me who
(32:03):
I thought should play me. I thought my Fista William
should play me. That's right, yeah, like I love her.
I love her same year I thought she should play me.
But then they were like, oh, we did her, we
did Ryan Destiny, we did a few others, and I
was hoping. I was just like, I don't want to
be a Kecky Palmer. It's nothing I don't like Key Pomer.
It's just that she plays in every sports movie when
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it's a woman. So I'm like, not kiky Palmer, That's
all I was thinking. But I didn't say that if
it would have been her out and just happy. But
I don't think anybody could have portrayed me better than
Ryan Destiny. She's from Detroit, dark skin like me, great skin,
very nice person, beautiful.
Speaker 2 (32:45):
How much time does you have to spell with you?
Speaker 1 (32:47):
We spent a lot of time on FaceTime when she
was doing like her scenes and stuff. She would call
me like, hey, I'm doing this scene. It got me
and your mom in it. Like, can you explain to me, well,
how your relationship was she said, because my like this.
I'm like, no relationship was like this. And she's like okay, okay.
She had to train boxing for about a year because
(33:09):
I tell them, whatever y'all do, do not play with
my boxing. Please don't. If if I see this film
in my in her boxing is bad, y'all might as
gonna hear and wrap it up. And they were like,
oh no, well, ron I said, have her trained, get
her ready, and they and they got already. She trained
with the guy who was it for Black Panther, who
(33:31):
trained the people for Black Panthers. So that's what he's
trained with. I don't know his name, sorry, but that's
what you told me. She trained with and he got
her together. When you see the film, you're gonna be
like wow. And it was and they did a great
job with the storytelling and everything. Shout outs to Berry Jenkins.
Speaker 2 (33:46):
I spent went to Oscar, did Moonlight, Bad Bill Street,
and No Joke.
Speaker 1 (33:52):
I spent a lot of time with him. We talked
for like three four hours and he was like, so
tell me about your life story or what do you
want to be portray? And I did. I told him,
and man did he do. He did a better job
than I ever could have explained my story. The only
thing that I didn't like one thing. I've been whopping
(34:13):
these boys since I was eleven years old. I ain't
lying to you. The first time I started, I bust
the boy up. They got in a movie at the
beginning where it shows me as a young girl in
the gym with all boys, which was true, but it
showed me in the gym where I think I got
beat up or something, or like a boy was taking
it easy on me and he was to beat me up.
(34:33):
Never happened, Never happened, No one thing didn't happen.
Speaker 4 (34:37):
How did they explain that to you? We got to
do this for the story dramatic effect.
Speaker 1 (34:41):
I just that was they spin on it. But I said,
you guys have to know, like I've been dominant in
boxing since I started, I've always known how to fight.
I didn't know how to box, but when I channeled
my anger to my boxing, everything turned out good.
Speaker 3 (34:56):
Is there one person that beat you as a kid
that you'd be like, I gotta go see him like
maybe when you attend.
Speaker 1 (35:01):
Which means I gotta go see him.
Speaker 2 (35:02):
I gotta fight him, like he.
Speaker 3 (35:03):
Beat you up and when you were nine ten be
like I got I need my get back.
Speaker 1 (35:06):
No, it's Savannah Marshall be men and amateurs. I was
seventy seven wins one loss of the amateurs, and I
always told her I'm gonna get you back. And I
got her back. Ten years later. I beat there for
the Unspirited Championship in front of two many people watching worldwide,
the most watched women's boxing fight of all time, and
I beat her in front of twenty thousand of her
fans in the UK at the Old Two Arena. It
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was a bittersweet, feeling better, sweet.
Speaker 3 (35:29):
Only person ever beat you.
Speaker 1 (35:32):
Yep.
Speaker 2 (35:32):
And the movie will be out Christmas. Man, I can't
wait to see. I can't wait to see.
Speaker 1 (35:36):
Now?
Speaker 2 (35:37):
Was it hard to watch?
Speaker 1 (35:38):
What? I was shook? Just the whole time? I'm just like,
what's going on? What's going on? I'm looking at it
and Ryan's playing me so good, but I'm looking at
It's kind of like I have to relive all this
stuff that I've I mean, I've moved on from her.
That I'm not involved with anymore, you know, so watching it,
I'm like, dang, it was rough back then. We did
(35:59):
have to go without this that we did, Like this
did happen? You know, you did win win a Olympic
gold medal and came back home to not one endorsement,
not one. You didn't make, no front covers or no magazines,
didn't get on endorsements. You got fifty K for winning
your gold medal, and you got a fifty k bonus
(36:19):
of being the only person to win a gold medal
for ten USA, but you didn't get I came back
to the same house US, I went to school. I
didn't really have any thing. Basically, I just had my
gold medal and a little money I won, but in
some Olympic clothes.
Speaker 3 (36:35):
But that's it.
Speaker 4 (36:36):
Was it because you're black, a woman, bad representation, which
one combination all three.
Speaker 1 (36:42):
You know, when I think about it now and I
say this, you know, humbly, I think about it now
that it just wasn't my time. You know, I think
that all I wanted to do was be a great boxer.
I didn't care about the image, the look. You know,
he straight hair should talk, which is to say what
you wouldn't say say I only cared about winning the
(37:05):
Olympic gold medal. That's why when I had my hair braided,
I left one braid out, just my hair sticking up,
because I want the word fro like Sugary Leonard. But
the USA team would not allow it. The USA box
and they were like, no, y'all, get your hold y'all,
get your hair braided. So when they got to their
last breast, leave it out. I got if I could
be somehow, and I think that I just didn't have
(37:27):
I didn't have people around me that were knowledgeable of
the whole image part of it, you know so, and
it really didn't matter to me either. My only goal
was to win the gold medal, and I did that. Now,
going to my second Olympics, I had everything. I had
magazine covers, I had endorsement deal sponsorships, I had a
lot of things going. I was able to carry on
(37:47):
to the pros.
Speaker 3 (37:48):
What was your first endorsement The first person that stepped
up and said we want to do business with you.
Speaker 1 (37:52):
Was it Dick Sporting Goods? I think it was Dick
Sporting Goods. And then I had to deal with under
Armor for their shoes I had to deal with with
power aid.
Speaker 3 (38:04):
But Dix was the first one to step up.
Speaker 1 (38:06):
I think Dix was the first one to step up.
Speaker 2 (38:07):
Yep, you're not gonna pall that.
Speaker 1 (38:09):
You just dick board good.
Speaker 2 (38:11):
No, no, you don't got to fall that.
Speaker 4 (38:12):
He got a Dix wasn't the first one to step up,
Like God damn Jesus.
Speaker 2 (38:18):
And now you got the Faces of Boxing podcast.
Speaker 3 (38:20):
Yeah, you got your Michael.
Speaker 2 (38:26):
Yeah, so he ready to box.
Speaker 1 (38:32):
He worked out. Yeah. So this is Carl from Atlanta,
one of the one of the owners and co hosts
of the Face of the Boxing Podcast TV. I actually
gave him the floor. We met in Atlanta during my
during my training camp. This is one of the coaches
(38:53):
that hooked me up with the sporing. Shout out him
for having Dimitrius come and that's why I called a
bear that roughed me up. But we both agree that
towards the end of the camp I was rough and
bear up. But I actually thank him for lantaut the
red carpet and being a huge part of my camp.
And now we're gonna do some episodes together on the
Face to Boxing Podcast TV. And then yeah, go and
give me your spell.
Speaker 5 (39:13):
So I am coach Cairo out of Hissfield Boxing Gym
is where they know me at out in Atlanta, Georgia.
If you ever in Georgia, definitely stopped by his field
Boxton Gym and shout out to all my partners Brian Byron,
Manew Jones, Salute yaw because they opened the doors. But
I'll be honest with you, man, the biggest door that
(39:34):
got open was the big quote herself. I just you know,
I stopped everything I was doing. I was training heavy
because it dates back to twenty seventeen. I started my
fitness company called Greenhouse Fitness, and you know this is
a company where I'm training celebrities. I'm training athletes, even
exotic you know, dancers in Atlanta, Magic Cities, follies. Man,
(39:57):
I was known as the BBL trainer. At one point
he was looking at me like, man, you're training all
these girls with BBL.
Speaker 4 (40:02):
That's why they saw an athletic in Atlanta on them poles
in the world.
Speaker 2 (40:07):
You know.
Speaker 5 (40:08):
But to be honest, just because you got a BBO
dow on me, you can't work out. They still keep
themselves in shape. So we grinding, you know, and I'm
a family man. So Mary kids, it gets kind of hectic.
So I'm like, look, let me transition back into my passion,
which was boxing since I.
Speaker 2 (40:22):
Was a kid. Uh.
Speaker 5 (40:24):
You know my my cousin, cousin Butch, she like seventy
five now, he used to sparrel with a Lei's and
the greatest. He just never made it. So in my situation,
I said, let me get in boxing, but let me
do it from the pad work side. Let me get
into the coaching side. And it was just a beautiful thing.
So we start the gym, Hissfield Boxing Gym. They give
me the phone call. They say, look, Clarissa Shields, she
(40:46):
want to come out to y'all gym and she want
to start her training camp in Atlanta for her big fight.
And I said, huh who They said, Clarissa Shields. I said,
all I'm dropping everything I'm doing and I'm coming right
to her aid with open orange, with big arms. I'm
coming big arms. So uh she come out, Uh shout
(41:06):
out coast Tie. That's my dog, my brother, he put
it all together too, he got the sparring. Uh.
Speaker 2 (41:11):
One of my.
Speaker 5 (41:12):
Fighters, Demetrius big Bear dem right, he was the guy
who I told him, go rougher up, push her backer
up against the rope. So you told him go hard,
Like I told him to go hard because I knew
she was fighting a twelve round fight with a bigger woman.
So my mind, I'm like, bro, you're gonna have to
go hard on her and just push her. He's pushing
her against the ropes literally the whole fight the first
time they spared. And but mind you, she's doing the
(41:35):
same thing, bobbing, weaving on the ropes. So come fight night,
I'm knowing she's ready. The same exact things sparring happened
in the fight.
Speaker 1 (41:45):
You won credit so bad, but I'm I said, thank you,
thank you man.
Speaker 5 (41:52):
I'm like, I'm a genius because I knew this what
she needed. And she didn't back down. She said no,
like tell him to come on, like I really want
to fight him. She didn't back She didn't not one
time turn it down.
Speaker 1 (42:02):
When they were talking about like, oh, dude, be going
easy and sporing, It's like, no, nobody job is to
not out their sparing partner. But can't no dude getting
a ring and just be like, oh, I'm about to
take it easier on You're gonna get beat up in there.
You better get in here and hit me. You better
get your respect because if you don't, hey, we gonna
try to hit you with everything clever. So, how did
you find his gym? Like when they called him your backstory?
(42:23):
How did you find the gym? Like, how did you know?
Like what made you guys reach out to him? We
met before. I can't remember exactly how we met.
Speaker 5 (42:30):
Andre Durrell, shout out professional boxer, retired Andre Darrell. So
he was actually, you know, my brother, my plug and
he's on a podcast too, so he's the guy who
has the box of knowledge for our podcast to make
everybody tune in. And then I'm a co founder. And
then my guy Coach Ray sitting back there. He's also
a co founder and owner. So they got Coach Ray.
(42:52):
They got a retired boxer, Andre Drel, who's now on
the Andre Ward and Andre Burdo Show. They do a
segment for you know all to fight are you basically.
Speaker 3 (43:01):
All the smoke?
Speaker 5 (43:02):
But is the fight segment? So with that being said,
that's how we got traction really with him. So shout
out Andre Durell again, and he gave me the call.
He said, my sist want to come down, make sure
you look out for and she had a great training
camp media day, and that's where we brought the media
in because she said, look, I see what y'all doing.
Y'all got a great media team, y'all covering everything. I
don't even have to tell y'all nothing. And I said, look,
(43:24):
we got a podcast, The Faces of Boxing Podcast TV.
Y'all can also follow us on a YouTube by like,
definitely comment we.
Speaker 1 (43:33):
Need a thousand subscribers. We had like four hundred and ten.
We just started to subscribing, so let's get it.
Speaker 5 (43:39):
Definitely definitely, so right now, go follow us on Instagram
too at the Faces of Boxing Podcast TV. And pretty
much like I said with this podcast is to bring
the old fighters in the new fighters together because everybody
want to know who's the face of boxing, right and
we know it's questionable. They're gonna say Canelo, they gonna
say Bud Crawford, they might say Tank, but guess what
(44:01):
in a woman's faces a boxing is the big quote.
So it's like you can't just leave out the many
different faces. So that's why the name just stuck because
everybody want to know who's the face. But guess what
is many different faces? It is. I trained with professional
fighters Elijah Pears. He has a fight in Atlanta August
thirtieth at the Ote Arena, Tito Lopez and Brian Norman
Junior out of Atlanta, the WBO champ that y'all may
(44:23):
not know right now, but he just got the strap
because Crawford moved up. So now he's elevated the champ
and he fights at our gym. So the city is
about to be lit. Atlanta's about to be lit when
she come back to State far Marena. We want to
sell that joint out and have a big, crazy card,
and Atlanta's embracing her like no weether like is just
the love is what all brought us together. It wasn't
even about the money to finance. It's about the legacy
(44:45):
and the history supporting her in her journey. So that's
really all already been. But as far as the podcast,
y'all saluted and y'all definitely put a stamp on it.
I appreciate y'all for having.
Speaker 4 (44:56):
Us absolutely yep. How important is it for boxing the good?
It was like that, like they have their own media platform.
Speaker 1 (45:03):
It's very important, you know. When I first, when I
first turned pro, I had two Olympic gold medals, and
I think that my story was the angry black uh
woman who was raped when she was a kid and
she hate men and and now she had to learn
how to fight to defend herself from men, and she
just hate everybody I had. I had a terrible image,
like and I didn't realize how terrible it was until
(45:25):
I was winning all these fights and I had all
these world titles and at the beginning, and one of
my fans was like, I'm a little scared of you,
And I was like, what you mean, because, like DJ
dj Vy said, I'm the nicest person ever.
Speaker 3 (45:38):
The nicest every time I see, so nice and so
lovely to take pictures with everybody you speak, I do
write no. So she was upstairs in the room. I
was like, I pring the crussle down. I'm like, she's
down talking to people, taking picture. Just the nicest person ever. Yeah.
Speaker 1 (45:54):
So That's how I've always been. But how I was portrayed.
And I have to say it was show Time that
was portraying because they had all the stuff. They were
the ones putting out the the videos, and when they're
putting out videos, if you winning a fight and then
a girl jumping in the ring in your face and
you ready to whoop her and whoop her brother and
whoop her team, it makes you look like you're angry.
(46:15):
But it was like, no, I'm just zero tolerance, a
bull crap and I don't like disrespect. But once that
one fan told me that they were scared of me,
and I was going to all these other events and
I would see fans looking at me and they would
be scared to approach me. I had to make it
known like I am not, I am not that, I
am not mad angry. I had my trials and tribulations
(46:37):
when I was.
Speaker 6 (46:38):
A kid, but nah, this ain't that.
Speaker 1 (46:40):
Like I'm a woman first, Like I love my fans.
I love like walk up to walk up to me,
get a picture, get a video, and I'll do a
drop for you whatever. Just you ain't gotta be scared
of me. Because if you only be in tim that
are scared of me, if you think you're gonna fight me,
because that's my switch cook, you know that's not click on.
But nah, gotta be scared of me. So that's why
(47:02):
now like I feel like now it's like beauty and
boxing for me, like I show my beautiful side and
my funny side and my good side, but also too
in the ring. I can't help this. I can't help
but show you that I'm a beast for real. But
that's just my job. At the end of the day,
I'm still a beautiful woman. I want children, I want
a family. I want to have kids. Boxing just my passion,
(47:24):
Like I just love fighting, But that doesn't mean that
I want to be a man. I don't want to
be no man, even in his next lifetime. I think
my life has been a little bit easier if I
was a man, you know. But I don't want to
be a man like.
Speaker 2 (47:37):
You're gonna take off to have kids.
Speaker 1 (47:40):
Take off. No, I'm gonna train off through my pregnancy. Yeah,
I'm not gonna spark, but I'm gonna train like work out,
but no sparring with the big guy against the ropes.
I'm not about to lose this body for no kids.
I gotta work out. Listen, after I have my kids,
(48:00):
they're not gonna have no fat mom. I'm sorry I
talk like I cried on fipe of jokes. I mean, Lord,
forgive me, but I've heard about this and You're terrible.
You're terrible. I'm saying that for me, Like, do not
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come talking trash to me and you fail because I
got some jokes for you. You fail, leave me alone
because I can crack up a couple joking jokes I'm
gonna make. I'm gonna make you want to fight me, Like, no,
So I can't be a fat person because people blaze
on me. My feelings hurt because you know, karma don't
miss nobody can do You get that cause you're so
(48:43):
successful what you do and you're in such a great
place in life and you do want to have kids.
Do you get the same pressures that like, like I
get pressured like when are you having kids? But like
your success is like you physically have to be available
for your success. Does your family pressure you in that
way even though you have to be physically like in
a in like world to be successful?
Speaker 6 (49:01):
Still if that makes sense?
Speaker 1 (49:03):
Yeah, I get asked all the time and I'm gonna
have my kids, and I feel like it's really a
thing with me. I've planned out my whole life at
the age of thirteen, like I'm gonna go to Olympics.
Then I won't even live in like at the age
a ten and go back to Limpsy, and I said,
I'm gonna turn pro. I wanna be undisputed. So I've
always planned my life out how I wanted it to be.
I've been gonna do that with kids. And my thing
was at first, like I want to be married. You know.
(49:25):
It seems like I've been engaged, you know, But I've
been engaged.
Speaker 6 (49:33):
Wow, But.
Speaker 1 (49:38):
Marriage like walking down the aisle and jumping across the
room and putting up with somebody forever. It's like, I
want to do that, but it has to be like
what I give you must give back. It has to
be like I can't fill your cup and then don't
feel mine back, you know. So for me, it's like
all we wanted to be a white first before I
have kids. Now weren't being tweeny nine. I might be
(49:59):
turning thirty next year, Like maybe I should just have
a kid with somebody, but I don't. I don't know
if I want to do that either. So I really
want to be in a relationship with somebody who I
like and love and have some kids and raise the
kid up in a two parent home and private school
and and all that good stuff.
Speaker 2 (50:17):
But y'all find the right person, though.
Speaker 1 (50:19):
I got to find the right person.
Speaker 6 (50:20):
How are you, like, what's your dating life?
Speaker 1 (50:22):
Like? I'm not even I'm not even on that yet.
A lot of guys trying to court me, but I
just don't. I just don't care right now. It's like,
is it the focus or is it you're still dealing
with the I was engaged situation.
Speaker 2 (50:33):
Those great men in Detroit, I heard.
Speaker 6 (50:35):
Detreat men take care of they do well.
Speaker 1 (50:39):
You know what, I've actually heard a few different than
I heard, like Detroit, New York and Landa got some
good men, That's what I've heard.
Speaker 6 (50:44):
I just got to New York.
Speaker 1 (50:45):
I don't know.
Speaker 4 (50:46):
You need a nice, good subburn man that'd be good
for you, a nice man from down south yeah yeah, yeah, yeah,
anywhere in the surrounding area.
Speaker 1 (50:52):
But you got to be open to it though you
said you're not even Why though? Is it because of worker?
Is it because you're still figuring out that I've always
had a boyfriend my whole career, got you, I ain't
never been like really single. I've been been in a relationships.
I think right now I'm giving myself like an emotional break.
I always have to carry about some feelings. Yes, like
I'm a highly wanted woman, and it's like you, I
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always have turned down men to make the man i'm
with so so he comfortable. But it's like they don't.
Men don't stop hollering at you just because you engaged
or you got the man, like they just keep coming
and it'd be a lot of a lot of stars too.
So for me it's like, I don't really want.
Speaker 6 (51:29):
To you need some secure you go watching that line.
Speaker 1 (51:33):
I don't want to date right now.
Speaker 4 (51:34):
Somebody sent a video in a group cha it's just
a lot of men in the group chat.
Speaker 1 (51:39):
Yes.
Speaker 4 (51:46):
I was like, was like, yeah, I ain't never look
at Clarissa like this show.
Speaker 2 (51:53):
And so the whole group chair start.
Speaker 4 (51:55):
Talking and I'm like, CHRISA got on panties in the
bra at the way end. The dude was like somebody
in the chat was like why. I was like, it's
away in bro like dudes up there in the underwear,
Like I didn't see the difference.
Speaker 1 (52:09):
Go to ebony bridges way in, So do y'all know
what that is? She's a boxer.
Speaker 2 (52:13):
Look quick, look.
Speaker 1 (52:14):
At that ebony bridges her body like yours. Well, she
got way bigger breast than me. But she got like
the big big breast. But she fight at like one
thirty one thirty five somewhere in there, pop right up,
look at her weigh hands. She'd be on her with
the real bras and the real liner. I just had
it on bron pans.
Speaker 2 (52:32):
Everybody ain't no melon.
Speaker 6 (52:40):
This a little different over, I.
Speaker 2 (52:41):
Said, Eby. I thought I'm about to see more melon
than Yeah, you know.
Speaker 6 (52:45):
But if you just need somebody that's going to be
secure where they at you.
Speaker 1 (52:49):
And he was secure. It was just like for me
right like like right now, I just don't want I
just don't want to do that right now. I have
to put things that I want to decide to make
somebody else happy, right And That's what I've been doing
for long time, like not just with relationships, but family, friends.
Everybody want my time, everybody want my money, everybody want
just everything. And it's like, forget what Clarissa want. Just
make everybody else happy. And I always gonna put myself second, third,
(53:11):
you know, to do that. And now I'm like, man,
I'm putting myself first. And I think a lot of
people don't like it. But at the end of the day.
It's like y'all was doing stuff that I didn't like
and I didn't say nothing. So let me live my
life how I want to live it, you know. And
a lot of guys is courting me. For sure. They
may send a little flirty flirt whatever here and there, but.
Speaker 4 (53:29):
I'm just I'm telling you that way and that when
went to the group chat and Homie was like, y'all
see Clarissa.
Speaker 1 (53:34):
Cut Man, well like after that way? And what? First
of all on Facebook, he got fourteen point nine million views.
Drake definitely what Drake ain't DM me if he did,
I don't think I will even tell y'all no, But
(53:58):
I know it's everybody was talking about the way. But
the thing is it's women's boxing. So that's what you're
gonna see. Like you're gonna see a good looking woman.
All all the women ain't built like no men. I
know damn sure that I'm not. I'm strong all that stuff,
but I look good. I look good. I got a
good body and I got a good face too. I'm
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just saying, like, I think the whole stereotype of women's
boxes are like butcher and men. It's like, I don't
want that image on me. I ain't. I ain't manly
like like I'm strong and I kick your ass, But no,
I ain't. I ain't mainly be built. That's why I
didn't want to go to forty seven because I'm gonna
lose my butt. I ain't got no breast. I mean
I'm being being for real, I'm like an a cup.
(54:42):
So you think I'm gone to forty seven, be smaller
a cup? And I had no ask. You gotta pay
me for that real, Like, look you got something I
don't see, but I ain't you. Yeah, I'm dragging bad.
Speaker 6 (54:57):
Yeah, it's like you.
Speaker 1 (54:59):
Give me a little bit and I yo to bit.
I think we'd be goods.
Speaker 3 (55:03):
Ladies and gentlemen. We appreciate you for joining us always, and.
Speaker 4 (55:07):
You gotta come back when the fire inside come out.
You should bring Ryan with you moving.
Speaker 1 (55:12):
I don't think y'all can handle both for the same.
Speaker 2 (55:14):
We gotta do what we gotta. We gotta make that
a blockbuster.
Speaker 3 (55:17):
Say.
Speaker 1 (55:17):
Ryan is like, I'm energy, but Ryan is like that's
all right, come on, yeah, okay, I'm living.
Speaker 3 (55:22):
No, I'm a text absolutely Rissa Shields, Ladies and gentlemen,
It's the breakfast Club good morning.
Speaker 2 (55:27):
Wake that ass up in the morning. The Breakfast Club
Wake that ass up in the morning.
Speaker 2 (00:02):
The Breakfast Club.
Speaker 3 (00:05):
Morning, everybody is seej Envy, Jess Hilarious, Charlamagne the guy.
We are the Breakfast Club, not Justice on maternity leave.
So we have Laura La Rosa with us this morning,
and we got a special guest in the building. Ship
is here, Clarissa Shields. Ladies and gentlemen.
Speaker 2 (00:18):
What's up, champ?
Speaker 3 (00:19):
Hey y'all, how you feeling?
Speaker 1 (00:21):
I feel good? Thank y'all for having me here.
Speaker 4 (00:22):
Listen, Floriza came in here with the two kids. I said, O,
you're flying out after this? She said, no, this is
all my belts. That's right, her belts.
Speaker 2 (00:31):
This is only three of them. You got up here
four four four?
Speaker 5 (00:33):
Huh?
Speaker 1 (00:34):
I got fifteen of them though.
Speaker 2 (00:35):
Fifteen of them? Damn?
Speaker 4 (00:36):
How did it feel winning world championships in five different
weight classes? You just won your fourth and fifth world title?
Speaker 1 (00:42):
This?
Speaker 2 (00:42):
How did it feel?
Speaker 1 (00:43):
You know? It feels good? You know it feels good
to even more like shut the haters up. They always
been hating for a long time, and I keep proving
them that I am the greatest woman of all time.
Can't none of these girls whoop me? None of them? Man, No,
weight class.
Speaker 4 (00:55):
Only you and Roy Jones Junior have won the middleweight
and heavyweight championships in over a century. Have you really
stopped to think about how historic that is?
Speaker 3 (01:06):
NA?
Speaker 1 (01:06):
See, I'm like, I'm a little emotional, so I get
the crying and stuff, so I don't let myself do that.
But it's a big deal and I got I got
more fish to fire because I want to be undisputed
at heavyweight too. What keeps you in that mode though,
where you like, I got more fish to firework because
you accomplished so much.
Speaker 6 (01:22):
What keeps you motivated?
Speaker 1 (01:23):
Well? I think I say motivated because I'm young, and
it's always like somebody, like a girl saying that she
can beat me. And when a girl say that, it'd
be like, well, I know the feeling, you know, I
want you to I want to give you a try,
and I actually love fighting. So I just got the
biggest knockout of my career about two weeks ago. But
I have been working so hard for that, Like I
(01:45):
have been beating these girls unanimously, dropping them, winning ninety
to one hundred, you know, ninety two, one hundred and
one too. Now it's like I finally, like, you know,
put somebody to sleep, and it was like, that's what
I want to do in all my fights.
Speaker 2 (01:58):
People really still think they can beat you seriously.
Speaker 6 (02:01):
Every time by the top, they gotta come at her
like that.
Speaker 1 (02:03):
I think it's I think that they think that, but
they don't really feel that. You know, like people just
be talking because whenever I come with the smoke to somebody,
then they energy switch up like, oh no, that ain't
what I mean. Like, no, that's what you meant, and
I want you to stand on it.
Speaker 3 (02:17):
Do you think people supporting women's boxing a lot more? Now?
You see more and more people at the fights. It's
more on television, people talking about it more. Do you
feel like you still got a long way to go?
Speaker 1 (02:25):
Nah? No, No, I'm making a million dollars pay days
a Turkish I'll even know who I am. You want
to do a fight, Oh wow, I got a movie
coming out by my Life the Fir Inside December twenty fifth.
Women's boxing is getting to just do Are we owe
more of one hundred percent? Well, right now my purse
is a million, and hopefully I can get it to
(02:46):
five million, ten, fifteen, twenty and maybe one day fight
for a million dollars like flood maylother.
Speaker 2 (02:51):
Did you know what was so interesting about the fight?
Speaker 4 (02:54):
Like most people seem like they get a little slow
when they move up and wait, yeah.
Speaker 2 (02:58):
I feel like man was faster.
Speaker 4 (03:01):
I was showing my man to punch because I was
watching the fight live and I was watching it realized
I was showing my dude my trainer because he didn't
see He didn't see one of the punches. You too,
And I'm like, no, it was you gotta watch this
punch that dropped her. And he was like, god, damn,
she was fast. It feel like you got quicker.
Speaker 1 (03:17):
You know what. The girl was punching at me so fast,
and it was like, hey, I am coming up from middleway,
so don't get it confused. Like I'm like, I don't
even want to get hit by her in here. So
when she ran up on me and tried to sneak
me after the ref broke because and she ran upon me,
I was like, whoa. She was swinging so hard. If
you would have felt unpunched, you would have felt disrespected.
(03:37):
I felt the wind coming across my head and then
before I knew it, I was just spiring back.
Speaker 2 (03:42):
Damn.
Speaker 1 (03:42):
And then she was going down. But uh, shout out
touch to Cory Stevenson because I send him my sparring.
When I sparred against this guy up in Atlanta. His
name is Demetrius, and I called him the Bear. He
was one hundred and ninety pounds and I sparred against him,
and I sent the court a sparring because Dimitris had
roughed me up and he said, you got to use
your frames more so when you see the punch after
(04:03):
I knocked it on the first time, and then I
ran back up on her again and I turned her.
That's called a frame. So I framed her up, line
her up with the right hand, and that's all. I
doue to s Court because he literally sent me a
video and everything like this is what you need to
be doing when somebody is crowding your space and you
need to line them up for your shots. So shout
out to my brother.
Speaker 6 (04:21):
For sure.
Speaker 2 (04:22):
I love that.
Speaker 3 (04:23):
Do more boxes do that way? But it's like, yo,
let me let me run this byue look at the
strain and what can I do better? What can I
do worse? What should I be doing to make myself
be able to be a better boxer?
Speaker 1 (04:32):
You know I do that, and I only share my
sparing clips with Shakur and Terrence Crawford, like I don't
really send my sparing clips out to nobody, like to
get feedback from. I feel like Terrence Crawford and Shakur
are better boxers than me, you know what I'm saying.
I feel like Charkur like skill wise, you know what
I'm saying. Charkurt feel like I got attributes that he
want and he has the attributes that I want, So
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I just kind of go back and forth with him.
Like Terrence has that patience that I've been wanting for
so long, like I don't. I don't have too much
pacience in the ring, Like I got the first round,
like let's scrap, and it's like Terrence, he'll he'll go
in the patients the first two or three rounds and
then sleep you the fifth rounds.
Speaker 3 (05:10):
Did you see buzz last fight? What do you think?
Speaker 2 (05:12):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (05:13):
I seen it. I thought that Madre Doff was an
awkward fighter, you know, I thought he was very awkward.
All that bouncing. I think that also too, Like I
don't think that Terrence has fully settled into the one
fifty four division like he has to that was his
first fight. I think his second fight, he'll know how
to prepare better for a guy of that size, because
(05:34):
even for me, how I got roughed up in Spawn
was I wasn't used to the body with like this
dude is one ninety and the girl I'm going to
be fighting against his coming in, She's going to come
in that one ninety. But it's a bigger body, it's
bigger arms, so and it's a different game plan. So
I think that a Terrence did what he had to do.
I seen him win in to fight, clearly, But a
Madre Doff he wasn't no pushover, And just because he
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had ten fights didn't mean he was no pushover.
Speaker 2 (06:00):
That's how I be feeling about you. You're fifteen at all, right, three.
Speaker 1 (06:03):
Knockouts, but I feel like you've had more fights.
Speaker 2 (06:05):
I don't know why I do.
Speaker 1 (06:07):
Mm A yeah, yeah, two on one, I should be
three And oh I thought I won that fight. But
you know what, at the end of the day, if
I was to spend a year, two years just practicing
none but Mma, I'll watch all them girls.
Speaker 3 (06:24):
Are you doing with MMA?
Speaker 1 (06:26):
No? I think I got one more fight with them?
When more fight and then they may come with a
new contract. But in a way it's so weird, like
I'll be telling myself not to say it, because anything
I speak, it always come true. But I I want
to take off a year and a half two years
of boxing and spend it on nothing but MMA. And
I want to fight in a PFL tournament and become
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PFL World champion at the same time as being boxing champion.
And I always get mad at myself because it's like, girl,
mma is not your thing, you know, like you're a
great fighter, you love fighting, but MMA is not your thing.
Speaker 6 (07:00):
You know.
Speaker 1 (07:01):
It's actually harder than boxing to me. But I still
find a way to beat these girls up.
Speaker 2 (07:07):
You always moving up in weigh classes, like you said,
you just you did?
Speaker 4 (07:10):
Mm me, do you do that because there's not enough
competition for you in women's boxing.
Speaker 1 (07:15):
No, it's plenty of competition. These girls are scary. I mean,
like listen, I told the girls that have forty seven
and fifty four, y'all put y'all belts up, and y'all
want to fight against me, I would get my fat
ass down there with y'all. Will I will lose the weight,
But it gotta make money, and it gotta make sense.
But to go to forty seven, which I haven't thought
(07:35):
that yet, to go there would make me a six
time division world champ. But I ain't just finna go
there just to say I went there.
Speaker 2 (07:41):
I lose your power if you dropped down that much.
Speaker 1 (07:44):
I think it depends on how to lose the weight.
I have a great nutrition team shout out to perfect
the athletes. I've been working with them for so many years.
People was telling me that I couldn't make one hundred
and fifty four, and my nutrition is like, actually, Christia,
you can make one forty seven. I'm like, y'all alone,
y'all alive. But they was like, but if you only
want to go down to fifty four, that's what we
(08:05):
get you down to. They and they got me down
there two or times.
Speaker 6 (08:08):
How hard is that to make like certain weights?
Speaker 1 (08:11):
Oh no, it's very hard. I mean you look like
you naturally skinning your whatever. Yeah, I am, you know,
but people in my family are not. Okay, if it
didn't work out, I'd be big as a house.
Speaker 2 (08:21):
Eating.
Speaker 1 (08:22):
I mean, it gets shape is great, but I don't
know that probably doesn't like does that affect you like
having that family history.
Speaker 6 (08:28):
I don't know what you're eating is like, like is
it certain times?
Speaker 1 (08:30):
Are you?
Speaker 2 (08:31):
Like?
Speaker 6 (08:31):
Man, I just wish I could just do a burger
to that into.
Speaker 1 (08:35):
Well, it's it's a thing of like one. I'm trying
to build a healthy relationship with food because of my
family history. But for me, I've been an athlete my
whole life. So I've lost thirty five pounds for a
fight within seven weeks, you know, I've lost forty pounds.
But I do that because I'm extra locked in on
my goal. Now, I just tell myself not to get
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so heavy, do right, I have to lose all that weight,
but if I was to go down to forty seven,
it would be hard, and it consists of a lot
of greens, grains, protein, and water. You know, people think
that you supposed to eat less and drink less when
you losing weight, and it's actually the complete opposite. You know,
I still can eat four times a day with portion
(09:16):
meals and drink a gallon of water a day or
even a gallon and a half when I'm losing weight.
So it's not really a thing of people go down
to those weight classes and they're starving themselves. My nutrition
teams don't let me do that. They're like, look, you
gotta eat even when I'm not hungry. They're like, you've
got to force yourself to eat. Like my stomach is
getting smaller. I may eat the meat. They're like, no,
you need to eat the vegetables and eat the grains.
(09:37):
So I have a very strict nutrition team and they're like,
this is what we have to do. So once they
tell me that what we have to do, I do that.
They do their job and I do my job, which
is trained and get prepared for the fight because rather
no matter what weight I'm at, it's still my job
to fight and then of course to win.
Speaker 3 (09:56):
Do you always watch you food? Because I seen you
in Shreveport. There wasn't too many healthy eyes I travel
because that's a that it was a.
Speaker 1 (10:02):
Lot of Probably. No, Like I'm off of fighting right now.
I just won two weeks ago, so I can eat
it all. I went to Orlando, shout out to them.
Speaker 3 (10:11):
He went to Orlando's Out and now Street Port. Oh
my god, I love that place.
Speaker 1 (10:14):
Wasn't all the best food I had in a minute?
Speaker 4 (10:17):
He was once to be fire for the last fight though, right, yeah,
I read that you gained fifteen pounds of muscle.
Speaker 1 (10:23):
I did. I actually got up to from my weight
class where I was at. I got up to one
hundred and eighty and I had to lose five pounds
to get back down in seventy five. But all the
all the way that I gained was man, it was nothing.
I was squatting two hundred and fifty pounds, binging one
hundred eighty five pounds like hitting it one two and
now one hundred eighty five is it's heavy. I mean,
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I ain't gonna say he sayd for a woman, but
I remember when it was time when I couldn't even
hit one thirty five. So if we had to hit
one thirty five ten twelve times and didn't go up
to fifty and to be able to do one eighty
five twice, I was like, God, dang, I'm scared of myself.
Speaker 6 (10:57):
Yes, that's unique.
Speaker 4 (10:58):
You said something earlier til you say you're trying to
build a heavy relationship with food. Is that because you
came from a place where they had all these food
deserts and they didn't have the best food options.
Speaker 2 (11:07):
That was That's why.
Speaker 1 (11:08):
No uh Diarbetes and hert problems running my family. So
I just don't want to deal with that, you know.
I'm hoping that genetically when I have my kids that
they don't have to deal with that. So I want
to be as healthy as as as I can be
so it don't pass down to them like I have.
I have a I have a leg disease, Like I
don't have any courlage around my patilla. Really we can
(11:30):
pop out all the time. Hey, it doesn't happen, you know. So,
but the doctor just told me that what I just
located on my knee in twenty nineteen and he x
rayed and he said, I'm surprised it hasn't popped out
more because you don't have no bone around it. And
(11:51):
I was like, really, I'm like, it's never It's never
happened to me. He like, you never like made a
false step and it went to pop up. I'm like, Nah,
just just just happen.
Speaker 3 (12:00):
So well, maybe you shouldn't have said that. So now
your opponent will be like, I'm going right for the knees.
Speaker 1 (12:03):
Opponent's gonna get here right in the mouth, Okay.
Speaker 4 (12:09):
Will you be fighting right like your last fight and
you said she was coming at you, how hard is
it to not resort back to just the street like
just thinking, oh I'm being attacked, just focusing and.
Speaker 2 (12:19):
Doing what Chicord told you to do or what you've
been trained to do.
Speaker 1 (12:22):
I'm a natural born street fighter, like I street fight
better than I by Why was telling these girls in
the streets, you do not want to mess with me
in the streets like I fight to kill? Like nah,
I got the same mindset and side of the ring
and outside of the ring when it when it comes
to a fight, and that's to what is that to
dismant for you, to get you off me, to to
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stop the fight. I got the same mentality in boxing
mm A and street fighting. It really doesn't. It really
doesn't change for me now up in the street fight.
It's winn at any means necessary. If I got to
hit your side your head with a brick, I will,
but don't everything. I'm coming into no fight at a disadvantage.
But you you're not just out here like fighting in
the streets. Girl, Dude, dude, I got on the first
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sight you girls you're great.
Speaker 6 (13:05):
Yeah, that's what I'm saying.
Speaker 1 (13:07):
A street fight you gotta get take it back to
fight as long as it's okay, because the way you
said it made it sound a little recent. I'm like,
it's no too much. Put it on me, see not
saying somebody pull up on you. You got like, why would
you pull up on her? This is the thing. When
I was in Atlanta training at Hatsfield Gym, I had
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these two coaches coach coach type find me sparing. I
don't know much about Atlanta. I would just do my
first training camp there. So I told them my own
spot against men. So they got me two men, and
then for some reason they got her. They didn't know
that she was a troll, and she ain't making it
known to them either. She had what talking trashing December.
(13:52):
If I showed you the d M, you be like
this crazy like this girl talking about something, be on
the knock you out, be you will bump. You only
got what you got because I went to prison for
three years and I beat all the girls who you beating?
The pros and the amateurs. I'm like, what is wrong
with this girl? So I told her like, look this
address in my gym and Flint. Come to Flint and
I and I'll work with you. And then all of
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a sudden she's like ever working all like like I
want to fight. I'm like, you're not even pro. But
come to find out, she was zero. She's zero on
zero on Box Red, so she's a professional fighter. But
she I have came to the gym getting ready to
spar and she in a gym warming up. I'm like,
oh my god, oh she was ready for action. I said,
this is how this is how you. First of all,
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I got almost a million followers on social media on Instagram, right,
how can I recognize you out of a million people?
That means you did way too much. That's how I
recognized you. So when I see her, I said, oh, well,
this this girl. And I walk up she and then
I walk up. I'm like, what you're doing here? She's like,
(14:54):
you know what, I came here, foe. I said, you're
here just me? She said yeah. I said no, you're not.
He said yes, Sam. I said, I think I called
her to B word and I said, you know, you
know I'm about to fuck you up, right, And she
just looking at me, and then she got the yelling,
popping stuff, just talking talking, talking, and everybody was like, Chris,
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just go get dressed. I'm like, I'm gonna give you
one round. She was like, try to leave, grab her suitcase.
All I don't want one round me two rounds. I'm like,
you're not gonna last past the first one. I'm telling you.
I'm telling you that now. Never seen a girl fight
dad in my life. I just knew. Man, you're talking
to the pound pound best woman fighter in the world.
You think you can't do anything with me, You're crazy.
I went and got dressed. I told her. I said, yeah,
(15:37):
I gave you rounds. Went there thirty seconds over.
Speaker 2 (15:41):
Yeah, one of them punch she I think she realized
she was in over.
Speaker 6 (15:45):
Yeah, the first one, probably right.
Speaker 2 (15:50):
No more.
Speaker 1 (15:53):
Actually, when I hit her, I jumped at her and
she got the bounce and she said, come on with it.
I said, I am just hold on, and then soon
she got right by that corner. It was over. I
hit on a body shot too. I think she kind
of went to the bathroom a little bit.
Speaker 3 (16:09):
You never heard from again, No.
Speaker 1 (16:11):
She wrote me. She wrote, she said, you're only landed
two shots. I'm like, okay, I'm like, you crazy for show.
And then she was like, why are you untagged.
Speaker 3 (16:24):
Me on the post?
Speaker 1 (16:27):
I said, because you reported my video I'm trying to
get my Instagram to No. She was like, no, I
didn't do that. I said, yes, you did. You're the
only person who want tag I know you. You reported
my video, so that's why I untagged you. I'm like,
but go on world Star like like they didn't tag you,
but you can tag yourself in the coming because your
dumb ass made World Star.
Speaker 2 (16:46):
What means more to you?
Speaker 4 (16:47):
Being a world champion at five different weight classes and
winning two Olympic gold medals?
Speaker 1 (16:54):
Oh wow? Wow?
Speaker 2 (16:57):
Why you that? Cause somebody asked Melo Anthony the same thing.
Speaker 1 (17:01):
But you know what, shout out to Mellow, honestly, like,
none of this would be possible without, yeah, my purse?
Speaker 2 (17:14):
What at another belt?
Speaker 3 (17:15):
Olympic medals in the purse? Yeah?
Speaker 1 (17:16):
I carry my stuff around? Wow, epic?
Speaker 2 (17:19):
Why do you carry your stuff?
Speaker 1 (17:20):
Because who else can pull out the purse? You ain't?
Speaker 2 (17:26):
Can I hold it? Yeah?
Speaker 1 (17:28):
Heavy?
Speaker 6 (17:29):
I can't see the yeah yeah yeah wow.
Speaker 4 (17:34):
Because they asked Mellow, what means more like when you
trade his three medals for NBA championship.
Speaker 2 (17:40):
That's what they as well.
Speaker 1 (17:41):
Honestly, like, none of this would be possible without me
winning the Olympics, right, you know, like me being a
world chapp and all these different way classes. It all
started with winning the Olympics at seventeen twenty twelve, and
then it continued with twenty sixteen. So I feel like
if I wasn't a two time Olympic champion and I
was trying to turn pro without my two Olympic gold medals,
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it would have been super hard for me because when
I fought on TV twenty sixteen or seventeen, a woman
hadn't fought on TV in twenty years. Wow, Like a
woman boxer hadn't fought on TV in twenty years, which
is like, I, yeah, I got the I got to
be the one to change the game, but I wouldn't
have been able to get the opportunity, I think, even
(18:24):
though as being a great as a boxer as I am,
if I didn't have the accolades the two Olympic gold
medals to back it up.
Speaker 3 (18:30):
What did you think about the Olympics controversy this year?
Speaker 4 (18:34):
Oh my god, talking about a main Klifherian boxing. Yeah,
she's a woman, but she tested with X Y chromosomes.
Speaker 1 (18:42):
Yes, I'm crazy like that, you know what. Honestly, I
hate that they ran with the whole transgender thing, and
they did what they did to her in the Olympics
because I couldn't imagine me being in the Olympics and
me getting ready to fight and people are like, oh,
you're a man, like I couldn't imagine that, And it's
like the post supposed to be the most exciting time
(19:03):
of her life. So everybody had misinformation. And I think
that she's right to sue whoever started the whole thing.
Like I heard she's suing Eli Musk and somebody else. Yeah,
girl get that money, and she got a gold medal too,
so a congrats to her. But to the girl who like, oh,
she hit me hard than I've ever been hit before.
(19:23):
Soft damn soft, Hang it up. You shouldn't even be
in the ring. I spar against me and I ain't
never been hit at herd where I'm like, let me
get the hell out of here, ever, and I've been
hit you where I couldn't you for three days and
with like a hook, so I'm like, I still didn't
get ot the ring, like, man, yeah, he hit me
so hard. I just what that's soft?
Speaker 3 (19:43):
Would you fight him if the money was right?
Speaker 6 (19:48):
A man talking to.
Speaker 1 (19:52):
You saying Would I fight her? Would she fight me? What?
Come on? Stop playing?
Speaker 3 (19:58):
The money was right?
Speaker 1 (19:59):
The money, that's right? What are you talking about?
Speaker 2 (20:01):
Because you know she's lost like nine times because.
Speaker 1 (20:04):
She got a ex ye whatever, She's born a woman,
she's a woman. A woman can't beat me? What that's crazy?
Would you fight her? If I say, line them up
from what I've seen her box and I'm like, she
(20:24):
couldn't beat the seventeen year old Claressa no matter what. Wait,
I think she's like a one forty seven? Please? You
is just crazy?
Speaker 2 (20:31):
So you still want to fight a mailboxer?
Speaker 1 (20:34):
Some of them they be running their mouth. I still
want to put my hands on.
Speaker 2 (20:36):
A few of them. Yeah.
Speaker 3 (20:37):
Cool.
Speaker 1 (20:37):
In particular Keith Thurman, I want to punch him in
his mouth. And I don't care what y'all say. Jake Paul,
can I beat me in a fight? Stop it did?
You'll watch the fight with Mike Perry skills pett of
bills and Mike Perry was not skilled at all, he argreed,
and muscle Jake Paul he so you him.
Speaker 2 (20:57):
I said this before I got Clarissa over. Jake Paul.
Speaker 1 (21:00):
Come on, man, you definitely don't think he's gonna be Tyson,
then Tyson fifty eight. We see this is what this
may may be mad with y'all. This is not an
eighteen year old Tyson twenty one thirty, This is fifty eight.
Speaker 2 (21:16):
Yeah, he don't get no scrapes. If he beat Mike Tyson,
you probably got.
Speaker 1 (21:19):
Like a good one, two, three, good rounds in them.
And if you don't like Jake Paul out, then would
I'm gonna have to fight Jake Paul for really her
uncle Mike Tyson a couple in the ring.
Speaker 6 (21:30):
I support that.
Speaker 2 (21:30):
Well.
Speaker 1 (21:31):
I'm gonna be right front row.
Speaker 2 (21:32):
Don't Jake got a woman fighter too. I can't remember
her name. Somebody a woman?
Speaker 1 (21:36):
No woman. See, we're not going to Amanda Serrano name.
She thinks she wrote two point zero. But she's the
real deal. Amanda Serrano, seven time division world champ. Uh.
Great fighter, great fighter. I have a lot of respect
for her. Is she a better fighter than me? No?
Speaker 2 (21:57):
No?
Speaker 1 (21:57):
But uh, Jake Paul tries to call her the quote
and that's because he don't like me. But I'm gonna
keep shining on him and showing him like you got
baby quote big quote over here?
Speaker 2 (22:11):
Is that a fight? That will ever happen?
Speaker 1 (22:13):
Is she want to come to forty seven or fifty five? Yeah?
Speaker 2 (22:15):
She has now forty forty Okay, she.
Speaker 1 (22:18):
Went she came all the way from like one eighteen,
when one twelve and got all the titles from like
one eighteen? What is it? I think it's one eighteen
twenty six when thirty one thirty five, one forty Yeah,
I got it right.
Speaker 2 (22:31):
Why you don't like you just because you be telling
them you a woman? Yeah?
Speaker 1 (22:35):
And I said, I will never fight on the undercard
of him. He's not a world champion. How are you
mad at that? He's not an ex world champion either.
You're not gonna have to go fighting on an under
cardinal damn, Jake Paul. I don't care how big he
is or how many fans you got.
Speaker 2 (22:47):
No, but that's because you are. You're an actual boxer,
so you respect the sport.
Speaker 1 (22:51):
So I'm an actual champion champion. Yeah. I don't even
think a Mani Toround should be fighting undercard of him,
But it's like like that's her choice. A Manda Toronto
wasn't really that big till she got with Jake Paul,
so I think she's super grateful. For him, But in
real life, in real time, you're a seven time division
world champion, He's not. You should always be the top
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of the bill to show like that respect to the sport.
But hey, if she liked being on the under cart,
go ahead. But I'm not being on the car. Nobody
but champions, you know, champions, and that's Terrence Crawford, of course, Stevenson,
Devin Haney, guys like that, Canelosi. I'm not.
Speaker 4 (23:35):
I'm not being on the car, Jake Paul, Who you got, Davis?
Speaker 1 (23:41):
You don't know me already? I got your core, I
got It's not Tank. See, this is what I want
people to understand. Like, I'm not. I'm I'm not a
tank hater. People think that I am because we had
our little dispute or whatever. But Noah, like I love
our tank box. The dude got power, He explosive, he
fast sh the dude, he the full package. I think
(24:03):
that's your cor is a better boxer now Withish your
court had to be on his a game to beat Jamonte. Yes,
I grew up. I came up in the amateurs with
Dravonte when we were like silver gloves and all that
stuff together. He used to get out boxing the amateurs.
You know what I'm saying. But he was always a powerhouse,
always the strongest, always explosive, but guys could still beat him.
(24:27):
I think Court has to start to beat him, and
people are and the court it's tougher than what everybody
giving him credit for. Charkourt is the hell of a boxer,
and I don't it'd be a tough fight for both
of them, but I think that's your core will come
on on top, especially if he can avoid getting hit
and make them pay. That's what I've been talking to
sort about. Yeah, you make them miss, but make these
(24:47):
dudes pay when they missed. Nobody should be swinging at
you and then nothing coming back. These guys should be
getting tatted up. So I feel like if he can
do that good versus Dravonte, I feel like he can win.
Speaker 2 (24:58):
But man if him though, that's the biggest thing.
Speaker 1 (25:02):
We I mean, you got to touch it more than
once too. We ain't never seen the quirk get dropped.
He got chanting.
Speaker 4 (25:08):
Defense is a mac That's why people say he's a
boring fighter. I'm like, nah, he's just a defensive fighter.
Speaker 1 (25:13):
Yeah, but defense is he max? I don't know what
everybody was talking about at the fighter been Jersey. But
I had a great time. I was in the second row.
I was like doing like live commentating from out listen.
He was whooping that dude. And then when the dude
got on his wheels, I was screaming because only time
about the Corbett on his wheels. Now he backing homeboy
up and got him running and ain't nobody give us
(25:34):
the cording on props all but but he ain't knocked
him out, so he beat him up.
Speaker 3 (25:40):
About Canelo, Bologa, what's your dad? What's your thoughts?
Speaker 1 (25:44):
Hm? Hm ah. I wish Canelo was fighting against me
of you this. Yeah, I don't think that Bolonga is
a strong fighter. An that's a good fighter and he's
my friend. I just think that you don't have enough
experience to be in there with somebody. What is Canelo
fifty and something? Yeah, I don't know. I think that
belonger is young and stuff, but I think his experience
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is gonna be his downfall in that in that fight.
But he can't use this, you know, you from trying
to come out there strong and hard and push the
fight early and maybe get Canelo tired to where his
power don't be that effective. But no, I think I
think Canelo gonna do that. But I want to see
Canelo versus going to be there. That's the fight.
Speaker 4 (26:22):
You got your text, your text ready to December longer
after the fight, like keep your head up.
Speaker 2 (26:26):
When one door closes, another one opens.
Speaker 1 (26:29):
Nah you when I hit you with that, you know,
you know, like all right, No, I just know like
some fights is to be a long car ride home
in silence, and I think, you know, he may have
to experience that, but hopefully you got some good people
around the where it's a good little ride. Put some
music on and stuff.
Speaker 4 (26:48):
I was looking at box raw and they had you
as the number two greatest woman's boxer of all time
behind no box box raw boxraw dot com. Oh okay, okay, yeah,
behind Lucilla rich kerr Riker Riker.
Speaker 2 (27:04):
I'm sorry, Okay, you know, I don't know who. I've
never heard of. Lucia Riker. He was seventeen to fourteen.
Speaker 1 (27:10):
K Yeah, yeah, Lucia Riker was back in the day.
She's not a better fighter than me, but I mean
it's not a bad place to be number two to her.
I guess she's one of my favorite female fighters.
Speaker 4 (27:22):
What do you think you would have to do that
for them to put you at number one?
Speaker 1 (27:26):
I don't even care. It's a list of somebody who
made it up, who probably never boxed before. I don't know,
but I know as far as in me. You watch
Lucilla tape, and you watch my you watch my tapes,
and you watch all the other girls tapes, and you
look and you see what I can do and what
they can do, and I believe I come out on
(27:47):
top every time. If you're looking at it from a
boxing standpoint. Now, if you're looking at it you like
my personality or my trash talk or all that stuff,
then maybe you be like, oh, yeah, she's not lady like,
let me bring her numbers down whatever. But if you're
looking at from just boxing standpoint, I box like I
box so good that Terrence called me twin. So that's
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the difference. Yeah, people get at you about like your
personality and you and you know that because I love it. Yeah, heavy,
people be you know, everybody can't talk like how I talk,
and it definitely came back it up. So I think
it comes off to be intimidating to them, and they
wish that they can be like me. But does it
heighten in the ring, like do you have an alter ego?
Or is it like, oh yeah, what you mean Claressa
(28:32):
right now? But Clrenzo is who I am inside the ring. Yeah, Clrenzo,
do not play like I start transforming in a locker room. Actually,
like the week of the fight, so Clrenzo be trying
to come out sometime and then like my assistant be
like Clrenzo, chill up. I'm all right, Like Clrenzo is
(28:54):
uh actually maybe maybe Clrenzo was like eight and mon CULI.
You know, it's not I don't say that Karenso is
a man. I don't say that Karenso is a woman.
It's just a person who I get inside the ring,
and I'm just myself, So I don't really put like
a gender on. I don't know if that's weird, but yeah,
I just don't put a gender on. I'm just going
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there and inside of the ring, I can be who
I really want to be. I don't have to, you know,
be nobody else. Or I think it's actually hard for
me to be nice because so many people get on
my nerves and I'm always having to be nice to them,
in life, people get on my nerves. I don't. I
don't like you the nicest people, Yes I am, but
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it's just like I do have to keep the peace, honestly.
Like some stuff, I'd be like Chris would just let
it go, don't even say nothing, because soon as somebody
do something I don't like, I'd be like, hold on,
I gotta check you right there in there. I can't
wait till tomorrow or the moment is like I gotta
get you right there in there. And people be with
(29:57):
this whole business. You gotta be professional and to keep
it cool. And that's actually like it'd be hard for
me to do.
Speaker 6 (30:05):
You feel like you have to do that because you're
a woman fighter, because I don't.
Speaker 1 (30:09):
I do that because I'm a professional. And also to
like I hurt people feelings like as you can see,
I don't buy my tongue or nothing like that, and
I don't even want to buy my tongue. It is
what it is.
Speaker 4 (30:21):
When does the t Rex come out? When does the
t Rex come out? They still call you t Rex?
Speaker 1 (30:27):
Right, it's the quote now.
Speaker 2 (30:29):
Okay, so you don't even use the t reck game, Okay.
Speaker 1 (30:33):
But people still call me that fifty call me that
you called me that in Close the shields Now. I
met fifty in Shreeport.
Speaker 3 (30:41):
That's the first time I met So.
Speaker 1 (30:43):
I met fifty here at the bar class. It was
a fight going on, but he just saw me and
was like t Rex, and I was like, but I
won't ever get no picture. I weren't really able to
holler at him, you know what I'm saying. I was
able to actually talk to him and holler at him
up in Streeport. So I'm happy that he followed me
from then till now.
Speaker 2 (31:04):
And you have a bio pic coming up, a real movie.
It's gonna be. It's ain't no TV shit. It's on.
It's called The Fire Inside.
Speaker 4 (31:12):
It's directed by Barry Jenkins and stars Ryan Destiny.
Speaker 2 (31:16):
How did that all come about?
Speaker 1 (31:19):
Oh no, that's crazy. They saw the movie t Rex,
my documentary, which was very raw and it's me I'm
being followed around at school to the Olympics and my
one loss in my home life. So they saw that
and they wanted to redo that, but in a movie way.
Speaker 2 (31:39):
So who saw it? Barry Jenkins?
Speaker 1 (31:41):
I think Barry Jenkins saw yes, And at the time
First University Studios picked it up then with COVID and
everything happened. MGM Studios picked it up. Wow, so that's
what I have the movie now. It dropped on Christmas
all over theaters in the world, actually not just the USA,
but man, it's crazy. So they were asking me who
(32:03):
I thought should play me. I thought my Fista William
should play me. That's right, yeah, like I love her.
I love her same year I thought she should play me.
But then they were like, oh, we did her, we
did Ryan Destiny, we did a few others, and I
was hoping. I was just like, I don't want to
be a Kecky Palmer. It's nothing I don't like Key Pomer.
It's just that she plays in every sports movie when
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it's a woman. So I'm like, not kiky Palmer, That's
all I was thinking. But I didn't say that if
it would have been her out and just happy. But
I don't think anybody could have portrayed me better than
Ryan Destiny. She's from Detroit, dark skin like me, great skin,
very nice person, beautiful.
Speaker 2 (32:45):
How much time does you have to spell with you?
Speaker 1 (32:47):
We spent a lot of time on FaceTime when she
was doing like her scenes and stuff. She would call
me like, hey, I'm doing this scene. It got me
and your mom in it. Like, can you explain to me, well,
how your relationship was she said, because my like this.
I'm like, no relationship was like this. And she's like okay, okay.
She had to train boxing for about a year because
(33:09):
I tell them, whatever y'all do, do not play with
my boxing. Please don't. If if I see this film
in my in her boxing is bad, y'all might as
gonna hear and wrap it up. And they were like,
oh no, well, ron I said, have her trained, get
her ready, and they and they got already. She trained
with the guy who was it for Black Panther, who
(33:31):
trained the people for Black Panthers. So that's what he's
trained with. I don't know his name, sorry, but that's
what you told me. She trained with and he got
her together. When you see the film, you're gonna be
like wow. And it was and they did a great
job with the storytelling and everything. Shout outs to Berry Jenkins.
Speaker 2 (33:46):
I spent went to Oscar, did Moonlight, Bad Bill Street,
and No Joke.
Speaker 1 (33:52):
I spent a lot of time with him. We talked
for like three four hours and he was like, so
tell me about your life story or what do you
want to be portray? And I did. I told him,
and man did he do. He did a better job
than I ever could have explained my story. The only
thing that I didn't like one thing. I've been whopping
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these boys since I was eleven years old. I ain't
lying to you. The first time I started, I bust
the boy up. They got in a movie at the
beginning where it shows me as a young girl in
the gym with all boys, which was true, but it
showed me in the gym where I think I got
beat up or something, or like a boy was taking
it easy on me and he was to beat me up.
(34:33):
Never happened, Never happened, No one thing didn't happen.
Speaker 4 (34:37):
How did they explain that to you? We got to
do this for the story dramatic effect.
Speaker 1 (34:41):
I just that was they spin on it. But I said,
you guys have to know, like I've been dominant in
boxing since I started, I've always known how to fight.
I didn't know how to box, but when I channeled
my anger to my boxing, everything turned out good.
Speaker 3 (34:56):
Is there one person that beat you as a kid
that you'd be like, I gotta go see him like
maybe when you attend.
Speaker 1 (35:01):
Which means I gotta go see him.
Speaker 2 (35:02):
I gotta fight him, like he.
Speaker 3 (35:03):
Beat you up and when you were nine ten be
like I got I need my get back.
Speaker 1 (35:06):
No, it's Savannah Marshall be men and amateurs. I was
seventy seven wins one loss of the amateurs, and I
always told her I'm gonna get you back. And I
got her back. Ten years later. I beat there for
the Unspirited Championship in front of two many people watching worldwide,
the most watched women's boxing fight of all time, and
I beat her in front of twenty thousand of her
fans in the UK at the Old Two Arena. It
(35:27):
was a bittersweet, feeling better, sweet.
Speaker 3 (35:29):
Only person ever beat you.
Speaker 1 (35:32):
Yep.
Speaker 2 (35:32):
And the movie will be out Christmas. Man, I can't
wait to see. I can't wait to see.
Speaker 1 (35:36):
Now?
Speaker 2 (35:37):
Was it hard to watch?
Speaker 1 (35:38):
What? I was shook? Just the whole time? I'm just like,
what's going on? What's going on? I'm looking at it
and Ryan's playing me so good, but I'm looking at
It's kind of like I have to relive all this
stuff that I've I mean, I've moved on from her.
That I'm not involved with anymore, you know, so watching it,
I'm like, dang, it was rough back then. We did
(35:59):
have to go without this that we did, Like this
did happen? You know, you did win win a Olympic
gold medal and came back home to not one endorsement,
not one. You didn't make, no front covers or no magazines,
didn't get on endorsements. You got fifty K for winning
your gold medal, and you got a fifty k bonus
(36:19):
of being the only person to win a gold medal
for ten USA, but you didn't get I came back
to the same house US, I went to school. I
didn't really have any thing. Basically, I just had my
gold medal and a little money I won, but in
some Olympic clothes.
Speaker 3 (36:35):
But that's it.
Speaker 4 (36:36):
Was it because you're black, a woman, bad representation, which
one combination all three.
Speaker 1 (36:42):
You know, when I think about it now and I
say this, you know, humbly, I think about it now
that it just wasn't my time. You know, I think
that all I wanted to do was be a great boxer.
I didn't care about the image, the look. You know,
he straight hair should talk, which is to say what
you wouldn't say say I only cared about winning the
(37:05):
Olympic gold medal. That's why when I had my hair braided,
I left one braid out, just my hair sticking up,
because I want the word fro like Sugary Leonard. But
the USA team would not allow it. The USA box
and they were like, no, y'all, get your hold y'all,
get your hair braided. So when they got to their
last breast, leave it out. I got if I could
be somehow, and I think that I just didn't have
(37:27):
I didn't have people around me that were knowledgeable of
the whole image part of it, you know so, and
it really didn't matter to me either. My only goal
was to win the gold medal, and I did that. Now,
going to my second Olympics, I had everything. I had
magazine covers, I had endorsement deal sponsorships, I had a
lot of things going. I was able to carry on
(37:47):
to the pros.
Speaker 3 (37:48):
What was your first endorsement The first person that stepped
up and said we want to do business with you.
Speaker 1 (37:52):
Was it Dick Sporting Goods? I think it was Dick
Sporting Goods. And then I had to deal with under
Armor for their shoes I had to deal with with
power aid.
Speaker 3 (38:04):
But Dix was the first one to step up.
Speaker 1 (38:06):
I think Dix was the first one to step up.
Speaker 2 (38:07):
Yep, you're not gonna pall that.
Speaker 1 (38:09):
You just dick board good.
Speaker 2 (38:11):
No, no, you don't got to fall that.
Speaker 4 (38:12):
He got a Dix wasn't the first one to step up,
Like God damn Jesus.
Speaker 2 (38:18):
And now you got the Faces of Boxing podcast.
Speaker 3 (38:20):
Yeah, you got your Michael.
Speaker 2 (38:26):
Yeah, so he ready to box.
Speaker 1 (38:32):
He worked out. Yeah. So this is Carl from Atlanta,
one of the one of the owners and co hosts
of the Face of the Boxing Podcast TV. I actually
gave him the floor. We met in Atlanta during my
during my training camp. This is one of the coaches
(38:53):
that hooked me up with the sporing. Shout out him
for having Dimitrius come and that's why I called a
bear that roughed me up. But we both agree that
towards the end of the camp I was rough and
bear up. But I actually thank him for lantaut the
red carpet and being a huge part of my camp.
And now we're gonna do some episodes together on the
Face to Boxing Podcast TV. And then yeah, go and
give me your spell.
Speaker 5 (39:13):
So I am coach Cairo out of Hissfield Boxing Gym
is where they know me at out in Atlanta, Georgia.
If you ever in Georgia, definitely stopped by his field
Boxton Gym and shout out to all my partners Brian Byron,
Manew Jones, Salute yaw because they opened the doors. But
I'll be honest with you, man, the biggest door that
(39:34):
got open was the big quote herself. I just you know,
I stopped everything I was doing. I was training heavy
because it dates back to twenty seventeen. I started my
fitness company called Greenhouse Fitness, and you know this is
a company where I'm training celebrities. I'm training athletes, even
exotic you know, dancers in Atlanta, Magic Cities, follies. Man,
(39:57):
I was known as the BBL trainer. At one point
he was looking at me like, man, you're training all
these girls with BBL.
Speaker 4 (40:02):
That's why they saw an athletic in Atlanta on them poles
in the world.
Speaker 2 (40:07):
You know.
Speaker 5 (40:08):
But to be honest, just because you got a BBO
dow on me, you can't work out. They still keep
themselves in shape. So we grinding, you know, and I'm
a family man. So Mary kids, it gets kind of hectic.
So I'm like, look, let me transition back into my passion,
which was boxing since I.
Speaker 2 (40:22):
Was a kid. Uh.
Speaker 5 (40:24):
You know my my cousin, cousin Butch, she like seventy
five now, he used to sparrel with a Lei's and
the greatest. He just never made it. So in my situation,
I said, let me get in boxing, but let me
do it from the pad work side. Let me get
into the coaching side. And it was just a beautiful thing.
So we start the gym, Hissfield Boxing Gym. They give
me the phone call. They say, look, Clarissa Shields, she
(40:46):
want to come out to y'all gym and she want
to start her training camp in Atlanta for her big fight.
And I said, huh who They said, Clarissa Shields. I said,
all I'm dropping everything I'm doing and I'm coming right
to her aid with open orange, with big arms. I'm
coming big arms. So uh she come out, Uh shout
(41:06):
out coast Tie. That's my dog, my brother, he put
it all together too, he got the sparring. Uh.
Speaker 2 (41:11):
One of my.
Speaker 5 (41:12):
Fighters, Demetrius big Bear dem right, he was the guy
who I told him, go rougher up, push her backer
up against the rope. So you told him go hard,
Like I told him to go hard because I knew
she was fighting a twelve round fight with a bigger woman.
So my mind, I'm like, bro, you're gonna have to
go hard on her and just push her. He's pushing
her against the ropes literally the whole fight the first
time they spared. And but mind you, she's doing the
(41:35):
same thing, bobbing, weaving on the ropes. So come fight night,
I'm knowing she's ready. The same exact things sparring happened
in the fight.
Speaker 1 (41:45):
You won credit so bad, but I'm I said, thank you,
thank you man.
Speaker 5 (41:52):
I'm like, I'm a genius because I knew this what
she needed. And she didn't back down. She said no,
like tell him to come on, like I really want
to fight him. She didn't back She didn't not one
time turn it down.
Speaker 1 (42:02):
When they were talking about like, oh, dude, be going
easy and sporing, It's like, no, nobody job is to
not out their sparing partner. But can't no dude getting
a ring and just be like, oh, I'm about to
take it easier on You're gonna get beat up in there.
You better get in here and hit me. You better
get your respect because if you don't, hey, we gonna
try to hit you with everything clever. So, how did
you find his gym? Like when they called him your backstory?
(42:23):
How did you find the gym? Like, how did you know?
Like what made you guys reach out to him? We
met before. I can't remember exactly how we met.
Speaker 5 (42:30):
Andre Durrell, shout out professional boxer, retired Andre Darrell. So
he was actually, you know, my brother, my plug and
he's on a podcast too, so he's the guy who
has the box of knowledge for our podcast to make
everybody tune in. And then I'm a co founder. And
then my guy Coach Ray sitting back there. He's also
a co founder and owner. So they got Coach Ray.
(42:52):
They got a retired boxer, Andre Drel, who's now on
the Andre Ward and Andre Burdo Show. They do a
segment for you know all to fight are you basically.
Speaker 3 (43:01):
All the smoke?
Speaker 5 (43:02):
But is the fight segment? So with that being said,
that's how we got traction really with him. So shout
out Andre Durell again, and he gave me the call.
He said, my sist want to come down, make sure
you look out for and she had a great training
camp media day, and that's where we brought the media
in because she said, look, I see what y'all doing.
Y'all got a great media team, y'all covering everything. I
don't even have to tell y'all nothing. And I said, look,
(43:24):
we got a podcast, The Faces of Boxing Podcast TV.
Y'all can also follow us on a YouTube by like,
definitely comment we.
Speaker 1 (43:33):
Need a thousand subscribers. We had like four hundred and ten.
We just started to subscribing, so let's get it.
Speaker 5 (43:39):
Definitely definitely, so right now, go follow us on Instagram
too at the Faces of Boxing Podcast TV. And pretty
much like I said with this podcast is to bring
the old fighters in the new fighters together because everybody
want to know who's the face of boxing, right and
we know it's questionable. They're gonna say Canelo, they gonna
say Bud Crawford, they might say Tank, but guess what
(44:01):
in a woman's faces a boxing is the big quote.
So it's like you can't just leave out the many
different faces. So that's why the name just stuck because
everybody want to know who's the face. But guess what
is many different faces? It is. I trained with professional
fighters Elijah Pears. He has a fight in Atlanta August
thirtieth at the Ote Arena, Tito Lopez and Brian Norman
Junior out of Atlanta, the WBO champ that y'all may
(44:23):
not know right now, but he just got the strap
because Crawford moved up. So now he's elevated the champ
and he fights at our gym. So the city is
about to be lit. Atlanta's about to be lit when
she come back to State far Marena. We want to
sell that joint out and have a big, crazy card,
and Atlanta's embracing her like no weether like is just
the love is what all brought us together. It wasn't
even about the money to finance. It's about the legacy
(44:45):
and the history supporting her in her journey. So that's
really all already been. But as far as the podcast,
y'all saluted and y'all definitely put a stamp on it.
I appreciate y'all for having.
Speaker 4 (44:56):
Us absolutely yep. How important is it for boxing the good?
It was like that, like they have their own media platform.
Speaker 1 (45:03):
It's very important, you know. When I first, when I
first turned pro, I had two Olympic gold medals, and
I think that my story was the angry black uh
woman who was raped when she was a kid and
she hate men and and now she had to learn
how to fight to defend herself from men, and she
just hate everybody I had. I had a terrible image,
like and I didn't realize how terrible it was until
(45:25):
I was winning all these fights and I had all
these world titles and at the beginning, and one of
my fans was like, I'm a little scared of you,
And I was like, what you mean, because, like DJ
dj Vy said, I'm the nicest person ever.
Speaker 3 (45:38):
The nicest every time I see, so nice and so
lovely to take pictures with everybody you speak, I do
write no. So she was upstairs in the room. I
was like, I pring the crussle down. I'm like, she's
down talking to people, taking picture. Just the nicest person ever. Yeah.
Speaker 1 (45:54):
So That's how I've always been. But how I was portrayed.
And I have to say it was show Time that
was portraying because they had all the stuff. They were
the ones putting out the the videos, and when they're
putting out videos, if you winning a fight and then
a girl jumping in the ring in your face and
you ready to whoop her and whoop her brother and
whoop her team, it makes you look like you're angry.
(46:15):
But it was like, no, I'm just zero tolerance, a
bull crap and I don't like disrespect. But once that
one fan told me that they were scared of me,
and I was going to all these other events and
I would see fans looking at me and they would
be scared to approach me. I had to make it
known like I am not, I am not that, I
am not mad angry. I had my trials and tribulations
(46:37):
when I was.
Speaker 6 (46:38):
A kid, but nah, this ain't that.
Speaker 1 (46:40):
Like I'm a woman first, Like I love my fans.
I love like walk up to walk up to me,
get a picture, get a video, and I'll do a
drop for you whatever. Just you ain't gotta be scared
of me. Because if you only be in tim that
are scared of me, if you think you're gonna fight me,
because that's my switch cook, you know that's not click on.
But nah, gotta be scared of me. So that's why
(47:02):
now like I feel like now it's like beauty and
boxing for me, like I show my beautiful side and
my funny side and my good side, but also too
in the ring. I can't help this. I can't help
but show you that I'm a beast for real. But
that's just my job. At the end of the day,
I'm still a beautiful woman. I want children, I want
a family. I want to have kids. Boxing just my passion,
(47:24):
Like I just love fighting, But that doesn't mean that
I want to be a man. I don't want to
be no man, even in his next lifetime. I think
my life has been a little bit easier if I
was a man, you know. But I don't want to
be a man like.
Speaker 2 (47:37):
You're gonna take off to have kids.
Speaker 1 (47:40):
Take off. No, I'm gonna train off through my pregnancy. Yeah,
I'm not gonna spark, but I'm gonna train like work out,
but no sparring with the big guy against the ropes.
I'm not about to lose this body for no kids.
I gotta work out. Listen, after I have my kids,
(48:00):
they're not gonna have no fat mom. I'm sorry I
talk like I cried on fipe of jokes. I mean, Lord,
forgive me, but I've heard about this and You're terrible.
You're terrible. I'm saying that for me, Like, do not
(48:21):
come talking trash to me and you fail because I
got some jokes for you. You fail, leave me alone
because I can crack up a couple joking jokes I'm
gonna make. I'm gonna make you want to fight me, Like, no,
So I can't be a fat person because people blaze
on me. My feelings hurt because you know, karma don't
miss nobody can do You get that cause you're so
(48:43):
successful what you do and you're in such a great
place in life and you do want to have kids.
Do you get the same pressures that like, like I
get pressured like when are you having kids? But like
your success is like you physically have to be available
for your success. Does your family pressure you in that
way even though you have to be physically like in
a in like world to be successful?
Speaker 6 (49:01):
Still if that makes sense?
Speaker 1 (49:03):
Yeah, I get asked all the time and I'm gonna
have my kids, and I feel like it's really a
thing with me. I've planned out my whole life at
the age of thirteen, like I'm gonna go to Olympics.
Then I won't even live in like at the age
a ten and go back to Limpsy, and I said,
I'm gonna turn pro. I wanna be undisputed. So I've
always planned my life out how I wanted it to be.
I've been gonna do that with kids. And my thing
was at first, like I want to be married. You know.
(49:25):
It seems like I've been engaged, you know, But I've
been engaged.
Speaker 6 (49:33):
Wow, But.
Speaker 1 (49:38):
Marriage like walking down the aisle and jumping across the
room and putting up with somebody forever. It's like, I
want to do that, but it has to be like
what I give you must give back. It has to
be like I can't fill your cup and then don't
feel mine back, you know. So for me, it's like
all we wanted to be a white first before I
have kids. Now weren't being tweeny nine. I might be
(49:59):
turning thirty next year, Like maybe I should just have
a kid with somebody, but I don't. I don't know
if I want to do that either. So I really
want to be in a relationship with somebody who I
like and love and have some kids and raise the
kid up in a two parent home and private school
and and all that good stuff.
Speaker 2 (50:17):
But y'all find the right person, though.
Speaker 1 (50:19):
I got to find the right person.
Speaker 6 (50:20):
How are you, like, what's your dating life?
Speaker 1 (50:22):
Like? I'm not even I'm not even on that yet.
A lot of guys trying to court me, but I
just don't. I just don't care right now. It's like,
is it the focus or is it you're still dealing
with the I was engaged situation.
Speaker 2 (50:33):
Those great men in Detroit, I heard.
Speaker 6 (50:35):
Detreat men take care of they do well.
Speaker 1 (50:39):
You know what, I've actually heard a few different than
I heard, like Detroit, New York and Landa got some
good men, That's what I've heard.
Speaker 6 (50:44):
I just got to New York.
Speaker 1 (50:45):
I don't know.
Speaker 4 (50:46):
You need a nice, good subburn man that'd be good
for you, a nice man from down south yeah yeah, yeah, yeah,
anywhere in the surrounding area.
Speaker 1 (50:52):
But you got to be open to it though you
said you're not even Why though? Is it because of worker?
Is it because you're still figuring out that I've always
had a boyfriend my whole career, got you, I ain't
never been like really single. I've been been in a relationships.
I think right now I'm giving myself like an emotional break.
I always have to carry about some feelings. Yes, like
I'm a highly wanted woman, and it's like you, I
(51:15):
always have turned down men to make the man i'm
with so so he comfortable. But it's like they don't.
Men don't stop hollering at you just because you engaged
or you got the man, like they just keep coming
and it'd be a lot of a lot of stars too.
So for me it's like, I don't really want.
Speaker 6 (51:29):
To you need some secure you go watching that line.
Speaker 1 (51:33):
I don't want to date right now.
Speaker 4 (51:34):
Somebody sent a video in a group cha it's just
a lot of men in the group chat.
Speaker 1 (51:39):
Yes.
Speaker 4 (51:46):
I was like, was like, yeah, I ain't never look
at Clarissa like this show.
Speaker 2 (51:53):
And so the whole group chair start.
Speaker 4 (51:55):
Talking and I'm like, CHRISA got on panties in the
bra at the way end. The dude was like somebody
in the chat was like why. I was like, it's
away in bro like dudes up there in the underwear,
Like I didn't see the difference.
Speaker 1 (52:09):
Go to ebony bridges way in, So do y'all know
what that is? She's a boxer.
Speaker 2 (52:13):
Look quick, look.
Speaker 1 (52:14):
At that ebony bridges her body like yours. Well, she
got way bigger breast than me. But she got like
the big big breast. But she fight at like one
thirty one thirty five somewhere in there, pop right up,
look at her weigh hands. She'd be on her with
the real bras and the real liner. I just had
it on bron pans.
Speaker 2 (52:32):
Everybody ain't no melon.
Speaker 6 (52:40):
This a little different over, I.
Speaker 2 (52:41):
Said, Eby. I thought I'm about to see more melon
than Yeah, you know.
Speaker 6 (52:45):
But if you just need somebody that's going to be
secure where they at you.
Speaker 1 (52:49):
And he was secure. It was just like for me
right like like right now, I just don't want I
just don't want to do that right now. I have
to put things that I want to decide to make
somebody else happy, right And That's what I've been doing
for long time, like not just with relationships, but family, friends.
Everybody want my time, everybody want my money, everybody want
just everything. And it's like, forget what Clarissa want. Just
make everybody else happy. And I always gonna put myself second, third,
(53:11):
you know, to do that. And now I'm like, man,
I'm putting myself first. And I think a lot of
people don't like it. But at the end of the day.
It's like y'all was doing stuff that I didn't like
and I didn't say nothing. So let me live my
life how I want to live it, you know. And
a lot of guys is courting me. For sure. They
may send a little flirty flirt whatever here and there, but.
Speaker 4 (53:29):
I'm just I'm telling you that way and that when
went to the group chat and Homie was like, y'all
see Clarissa.
Speaker 1 (53:34):
Cut Man, well like after that way? And what? First
of all on Facebook, he got fourteen point nine million views.
Drake definitely what Drake ain't DM me if he did,
I don't think I will even tell y'all no, But
(53:58):
I know it's everybody was talking about the way. But
the thing is it's women's boxing. So that's what you're
gonna see. Like you're gonna see a good looking woman.
All all the women ain't built like no men. I
know damn sure that I'm not. I'm strong all that stuff,
but I look good. I look good. I got a
good body and I got a good face too. I'm
(54:20):
just saying, like, I think the whole stereotype of women's
boxes are like butcher and men. It's like, I don't
want that image on me. I ain't. I ain't manly
like like I'm strong and I kick your ass, But no,
I ain't. I ain't mainly be built. That's why I
didn't want to go to forty seven because I'm gonna
lose my butt. I ain't got no breast. I mean
I'm being being for real, I'm like an a cup.
(54:42):
So you think I'm gone to forty seven, be smaller
a cup? And I had no ask. You gotta pay
me for that real, Like, look you got something I
don't see, but I ain't you. Yeah, I'm dragging bad.
Speaker 6 (54:57):
Yeah, it's like you.
Speaker 1 (54:59):
Give me a little bit and I yo to bit.
I think we'd be goods.
Speaker 3 (55:03):
Ladies and gentlemen. We appreciate you for joining us always, and.
Speaker 4 (55:07):
You gotta come back when the fire inside come out.
You should bring Ryan with you moving.
Speaker 1 (55:12):
I don't think y'all can handle both for the same.
Speaker 2 (55:14):
We gotta do what we gotta. We gotta make that
a blockbuster.
Speaker 3 (55:17):
Say.
Speaker 1 (55:17):
Ryan is like, I'm energy, but Ryan is like that's
all right, come on, yeah, okay, I'm living.
Speaker 3 (55:22):
No, I'm a text absolutely Rissa Shields, Ladies and gentlemen,
It's the breakfast Club good morning.
Speaker 2 (55:27):
Wake that ass up in the morning. The Breakfast Club
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