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