The Overthinking Understanding podcast recently had the pleasure of engaging in a captivating conversation with none other than the renowned Claressa Shields. Stay tuned for the upcoming audio release, where we delve into her inspiring journey and remarkable insights.
Claressa Shields, an American professional boxer and mixed martial artist, embodies the epitome of grit, determination, and unyielding passion in the ring. With an illustrious career marked by numerous championships and accolades, Shields has not only redefined women's boxing but also shattered barriers, inspiring countless individuals worldwide with her remarkable journey.
* Disclaimer, This is not a interviews just the opportunity presented to OVERTHINKING UNDERSTANDING Podcast by listening to her spaces on X.
The Overthinking Understanding podcast recently had the pleasure of engaging in a captivating conversation with none other than the renowned Claressa Shields. Stay tuned for the upcoming audio release, where we delve into her inspiring journey and remarkable insights.
Claressa Shields, an American professional boxer and mixed martial artist, embodies the epitome of grit, determination, and unyielding passion in the ring. With an illustrious career marked by numerous championships and accolades, Shields has not only redefined women's boxing but also shattered barriers, inspiring countless individuals worldwide with her remarkable journey.
* Disclaimer, This is not a interviews just the opportunity presented to OVERTHINKING UNDERSTANDING Podcast by listening to her spaces on X.
We got Kay Kay. What, let me see? Oh, it's just Kay K-A-Y-E. The floor is yours. I believe this is a female. This is a woman.
Speaker 2:
Yes, ma'am, definitely a female. It's dope to be speaking with you. I'm Kay from Overthinking Understanding Podcast. It's nice to meet you, same here. I think your story is dope. I really came on here to talk to you. We, born same age, totally went on different paths. Growing up, I did some amateur boxing. I wanted to box. I ended up going into the Army. I've been following you for so long. I really think you just dope.
Speaker 1:
I don't even know how to say it.
Speaker 2:
I know people be hating it. Be on the same thing, we be close to the same age. But I think you dope. I think just watching you transition, people be so new to boxing, just watching you transition from the amateurs and realizing how much I ain't going to say better but just how much the difference in your weight and how you work out and the improvements in your run, I feel like, because you are a female boxer, all that stuff get overlooked. It's like, like you said, like being a male boxer, I think it's kind of hard to resonate with males. Like and still now, like I know I had to go into the to the service I'm like I left at 18.
Speaker 2:
I've been doing it 10 years and this the way I've been, uh, making money provided for my family, but even just to, it's kind of hard for guys to understand. Like it's not a lot of females boxing. It's not a lot of females. Not a lot of female boxing it's not a lot, just like the WNBA and anything like that. Like we don't get the same opportunities that they get.
Speaker 2:
So I understood what the UK guy was saying. Like, oh, I want you to be an inspiration to my daughter. Yeah, that's cool. I'm not saying I want to be a man, not to be an inspiration to other little girls. I did that but I'll be. As a man I'll be so much more inspiration I'll be able to show y'all like it's not. I'll be able to get these fights and these back-to-backs, even for females to get up to 10, 11 fights. That's harder for us than it is for a male. Some males fight start their career off in mexico and they've been boxing and by the time we see them their first, uh, professional bout, they're 17 fights in and we're like who are you, man, listen?
Speaker 1:
like pattern records in the male professional boxing is at an all-time high. Yes, for all these guys that's 30's, 30 and 0, 40 and 0, and we don't even know half the people who they fought against. I'm just being real. We hear about the people who they fought against when they want to get a title or something, but it's like who they fought to pad their record up. It's crazy, because I don't even get that opportunity to even pad my record up. It's like I don't even get that opportunity to even pad my record up, like exactly, you know. It's like the commission won't even oh, like the commission won't even okay me to fight certain girls.
Speaker 1:
Like when I was zero and zero, I wanted to fight my pro debut against a girl who was 13 and 8, 13 and 5, I think and the commission turned her down. And I'm like man, she got 18 fights. Why are you turning her down for her to fight against me? They're like, oh, cause you won the Olympics. I'm like, so what? But you letting these dudes who fought in the Olympics and these dudes who world championships or whatever, 400 amateur fights, you know fucking getting here with you know Sam from the damn taxi driver and then he fucking knocking him out. But I actually just I'm like, just get me a boxer. But damn, I got to go in here with somebody who damn near undefeated on my pro debut. Like that's just crazy to me. But they was Like I went 0-18 for opponents.
Speaker 2:
My pro debut Like they turned down 18 girls and that and that was, and that's why I say like people don't get. I think that's why even I used to be talking, uh, talking to my brother. I make certain comments growing up he'd be like man you hate. No, I'm saying I'm like, no, like it's just a certain way that we have to come as a female so much harder than what males have to do, and just to watch, like the stuff I used to talk to my big brother about you when it did it, like the whole switching up diet and running. I'm like this is what I'm talking about now.
Speaker 2:
People see, oh, clarissa, shield, now everything that you did in the past get to be brought up. Oh, two time go and you still have to remind people. We can talk about male fighters, like you say. You look up the floor and we get it. It's harder on males too in a sense, because it's more competition. But we talk about people. We talk about Shakur Stevenson, silver, silver medal, and I know it's your brother like you understand nothing against it. Uh, floyd, even though you know cheated uh, bronze medal, and it's like we got a female that went back to back gold like how is that?
Speaker 2:
not. How is that so? Uh, skipped and not talked about. Like how is it that we even entertain? Like I actually like I, I actually like, like they say, bond gardener. That's cool, it's just the way she went about it. Like you said, we trained together. People be casual fans, like it's a fight game. There's no friends in boxing. But if we don't have a relationship, it's not about you calling me out as a boxer and especially you y'all. Like mckay lamar, like you said, just some females that you would never, never, never see yourself fighting. So it's like it could have been a conversation had behind doors before you. Just hey, now that's when it comes off like you hate it. Now that's when it comes off like you got my number. We, we're fans, you know, appreciating that you do things like this where we able to speak to you. That's a person that's probably done had your number. Y'all trade in the same gym.
Speaker 1:
You could have been spoke to me, you could have been, you know, said something different. So that's why I say like it's so crazy, because we, we're like her. I got like so many dms between me and her where, you know, we both admire how each other look, how each other work out, um, how each other dress. You know how each other box. You know, um, um, we, I thought we were like and it's where she done called me sis, as been messages and I call her sis, or, you know, we always was very complimentary of each other and it wasn't till, you know, the video went around of me getting dropped five years ago by this dude I was sparring against with these worn-ass gloves he had on, but who's gonna shove?
Speaker 1:
Either way, I was being attacked on social media by all these you know men who just hate my guts anyway, and while they sharing this video and stuff. You know that's when she called me out and I was like that's crazy, so I'm thinking she joking. And then all of a sudden, like she like yeah, if I was to fight, you know, clarissa, I would hit her with the same hook that old boy hit her with when they sparred. And you know I would do this to Clarissa. Clarissa came box you know I'm a way better fighter than her, like, and this is when she, you know, suspended. You feel me so it's like damn. I, you know, tried to have your back when they were saying you was a drug cheat, telling them to give you a chance to prove your innocence Like I'm the only one in this motherfucker's family that let you prove your innocence and she just jumped on the bandwagon with them.
Speaker 1:
Haters, and knowing that like she know me for real, so people that know me know that I can be a little sensitive, for real, you know I'm saying yeah while I'm being attacked on social media, I'm thinking that her being my friend, being my sister, she gonna reach out a bit comfort done or something like you know, hey, girl, I'm just reaching out to make sure you straight. You know, I'm saying I had two cousins. I died. I had two of my cousins. One of my cousins had got killed and my other cousin had died up in the same week.
Speaker 1:
So it's like I'm going through that both my cousins and died. It's just so much shit going on, um, and I'm being trolled and all this shit. And then it's like you would think that your friend would call you and check on you or make sure you straight. But it's like, nah, she, you cut up and I know I'm like so everybody else was saying f me and she just was joining bandwagon, like yeah, I'm about to say fuck you too. And she jumped on there just like trying to dog me out and it was like I would never do nobody like that who I caught myself caring about and being a and being a friend too. But I'm at a point in my life where, like when the motherfuckers show you who they are, believe them, and I and I said you know what Shit, she got to stay there. Like she texted me.
Speaker 1:
Like you know, it ain't um don't. She said, don't take it so personal, it's boxing. I'm like man, fuck you. You weird as hell. I'm like if you really wanted to do something to keep your name relevant, if you really wanted to do like a lead up to a fight or possibly make you want to make your brand bigger, whatever you could have came to me and talked to me like a woman and I would be like I got you and I would have kept it just between me and you and we could have went off on each other and laughed about that shit for weeks, for months, whatever, yeah, about us fighting. But it was like she went so just shysty about it and just tried to discredit me and my greatness and it was like damn, like I ain't got no respect for that and that's why I don't got no more respect for her. You feel me, but I ain't wanted to be like that. But shit, she, she made it like that.
Speaker 2:
It really wasn't me yeah, I don't want to stay on too long. Like I really appreciate you talking to me. Like I say, uh, people, I know people be quick to be like we, the same age. You can't look up to nobody it's not even just like looking up, but I respect you, I respect, I respect what you done, did as I said, I do my best part and I understand it. Like you always say, it's more. I have never sparred. No, I take it a lot better. I sparred one female, but it's more. It's more men in the gym than anything.
Speaker 2:
And a lot of times and what people be saying is like, if you ain't never stepped foot inside the ring, oh, and here's the street fight, did that in the 30s? It's just a totally different ball game. So I respect you. Like I say again uh, I overthink understanding podcast. I'm gonna get you on there one day. I'll be at the fights, I'll be. I've got the fight especially. Come back to texas. We float, uh, we flow seeds and and I ended up like this Ron Garcia can't fuck with Earl Spence, everybody getting so messed up. Terrence Crawford yeah, we take that Texas. We took that L, we keep it pushing. If it's a chance to land it back. It'll get ran back, but Ron Garcia ain't fucking, do you got?
Speaker 2:
a YouTube channel. I got a YouTube channel. My YouTube channel don't do as good as my streaming platforms, but my podcast is out on every streaming platform. You could type over what's the name of your podcast. Overthinking. Understanding Podcast. You could type it into-.
Speaker 1:
Overthinking Understanding Podcast. Make sure y'all tune in with her Overthinking Understanding Podcast.
Speaker 2:
Yeah, but I'm going to get you on that. I'm going to get you on there, I'm going to run it to you. I've been saying it. Okay, I just wanted to tell you like I really respect you and keep doing what you're doing. Thank you, I appreciate that.
Speaker 1:
All right. All right Y'all, that was cool. Hey, I enjoyed y'all. I got to go. I'll talk to y'all later, thanks.
