{"id":14886,"date":"2019-03-01T07:01:30","date_gmt":"2019-03-01T07:01:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mmaexchange.com\/?p=14886"},"modified":"2019-03-01T07:01:30","modified_gmt":"2019-03-01T07:01:30","slug":"shields-amanda-nunes-cant-beat-me-in-a-boxing-match","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mmaexchange.com\/?p=14886","title":{"rendered":"Shields: Amanda Nunes can\u2019t beat me in a boxing match"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The middleweight champion discusses a variety of topics.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tmz.com\/2019\/02\/27\/claressa-shields-amanda-nunes-boxing-ufc\/\">Claressa Shields recently spoke with TMZ about women&rsquo;s boxing, MMA, and specifically UFC champion Amanda Nunes<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>On whether or not she&rsquo;s thought about doing MMA:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>&ldquo;I&rsquo;ve thought about it. I&rsquo;d serve they ass up. I could learn. First of all, before you get me on the ground, you gotta get punched first. Those girls gotta make it through that. I&rsquo;ve thought about it. I&rsquo;m gonna continue to work on boxing. I know a little bit of wrestling, but if I gave myself a year of nothing but wrestling and nothing but jiu-jitsu or something like that, and kickboxing, I could definitely do it. It&rsquo;s not something that I wanna do, but if it ever came down to it &mdash; they only have two big weight classes, that&rsquo;s 135 and 145. I can&rsquo;t make neither, so maybe if they have a bigger weight class, maybe we could talk. But I&rsquo;m not dropping to &lsquo;45.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>On Amanda Nunes&rsquo; reputation as a top boxer in MMA:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>&ldquo;Amanda Nunes caught Cris Cyborg because Cris Cyborg went in there wild and crazy. She couldn&rsquo;t come over to boxing and do that. She wouldn&rsquo;t last. We don&rsquo;t go out throwing the hardest punches we can throw in the first round. We got 10 rounds. Amanda Nunes can&rsquo;t beat me in a boxing match, and there&rsquo;s a couple other girls she probably couldn&rsquo;t beat in a boxing match.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>On making women&rsquo;s boxing more popular:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>&ldquo;I think the case is now that they know that, one, myself, I&rsquo;m the GOAT, I&rsquo;m the greatest woman of all-time. When they see me fight, you&rsquo;re not looking at a woman fighter, you&rsquo;re looking at just a fighter. Gender doesn&rsquo;t come into play when I fight. I think that they see that and they&rsquo;ve put a lot behind me because of that. And then I&rsquo;m different than any other female that&rsquo;s come up before. I&rsquo;m very vocal, outspoken, and nice at the same time. The main thing I do is kick ass. That&rsquo;s why they&rsquo;re really getting behind me. That&rsquo;s why we&rsquo;re booming right now, because I get out there and I T-Rex bitches.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Shields (8-0, 2 KO) is scheduled to face Christina Hammer (24-0, 11 KO) on April 13 on Showtime, a fight that aims to fully unify the middleweight division.<\/p>\n<p><ins class=\"adbladeads\" data-cid=\"25014-4024605408\" data-host=\"web.adblade.com\" data-tag-type=\"4\" style=\"display:none\"><\/ins><br \/>\n<script async src=\"http:\/\/web.adblade.com\/js\/ads\/async\/show.js\" type=\"text\/javascript\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The middleweight champion discusses a variety of topics. Claressa Shields recently spoke with TMZ about women&rsquo;s boxing, MMA, and specifically UFC champion Amanda Nunes. On whether or not she&rsquo;s thought about doing MMA: &ldquo;I&rsquo;ve thought about it. I&rsquo;d serve they ass up. I could learn. First of all, before you get me on the ground, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":14887,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[10],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mmaexchange.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14886"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mmaexchange.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mmaexchange.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mmaexchange.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mmaexchange.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=14886"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.mmaexchange.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14886\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mmaexchange.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/14887"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mmaexchange.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14886"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mmaexchange.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14886"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mmaexchange.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14886"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}