“I Beat The S**t Out Of Cris Cyborg” Claressa Shields Sets It Off! When GWOAT’s Collide

Claressa Shields is called the combat sports GWOAT or "Greatest Woman Of All Time" for a reason. Fresh off her historic split decision win over Kelsey DeSantis last Saturday at PFL vs. Bellator, the first-ever MMA win for a woman in the country of Saudi Arabia, she now has a new target: Cris Cyborg.

“Look, I’ll be honest with you, when I sparred against Cris Cyborg in 2018, I took it easy on her,” Shields said Wednesday on The MMA Hour. “I let her and her team doctor up a video to make it look close, but the first and second round, I beat the s*** out of Cris Cyborg. She cannot box, OK? And then we were supposed to work together more, but after I beat her in sparring, she didn’t want to spar no more.

“But I told her, ‘If you ever need me in your camp for boxing, let me know, because I’ll still come and help you. We don’t [have to] spar.’ She never called me. So for her to be saying she’ll knock me out at 147 [pounds], and power this and power that — Cris Cyborg has power in MMA because you have all those different arts you can use. In boxing, Cris Cyborg can’t mess with me on a day that I’m sick with the flu.”

Claressa Shields is the most decorated amateur boxer ever with two Olympic gold medals in the sport. She is also a two-time undisputed boxing world champion with a 14-0 in her pro boxing record and a 2-1 pro MMA record, she is a complete fighter.

Ironically, Cris Cyborg has always been known as the most feared women's MMA fighter in history. So when the two linked up to mutually help each other transition into their respective sports, it looked like a match made in combat heaven, until it wasn't.

“I don’t know how all of a sudden these girls start beefing with me,” Shields said. “The beef with Cris Cyborg is probably the most shocking and surprising than any other beef that I have.

“It’s because a guy had some money for me and Cris Cyborg to fight — he was speaking of a fight as big as Tyson Fury vs. Francis Ngannou. I said I got the perfect person, I said Cris Cyborg, Amanda Nunes. So I thought about Cris and she was my friend. I hit her up, ‘I got money for us.’ I’m like, ‘Let’s make it happen,’ she’s all like, ‘Oh, thanks for hitting me up, of course I’ll get back with you.’

“All of a sudden — the money is right, everything is good — she’s crying about the weight class. I already told [her] what weight class the fight was gonna be at, 154 [pounds]. Why are you trying to get me to come to 147? Then after that, she talking about she had knocked me out at 147. She was doing this [and that].”

The issues between Claressa Shields and Cris Cyborg have the makings of a fight or business beef with no end.