{"id":299764,"date":"2023-12-12T17:48:31","date_gmt":"2023-12-12T17:48:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tellmysport.com\/?p=299764"},"modified":"2023-12-12T17:48:31","modified_gmt":"2023-12-12T17:48:31","slug":"male-boxer-posts-clip-of-him-flooring-female-champion-claressa-shields","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tellmysport.com\/boxing\/male-boxer-posts-clip-of-him-flooring-female-champion-claressa-shields\/","title":{"rendered":"Male boxer posts clip of him FLOORING female champion Claressa Shields"},"content":{"rendered":"
Female boxing world champion Claressa Shields is sent tumbling to the canvas in shocking footage from her 2018 sparring session with a male boxer.<\/p>\n
Latvian fighter\u00a0Arturs Ahmetovs recently shared a clip which shows him sparring with Shields, an undisputed champion in the women’s middleweight division.<\/p>\n
As the pair exchange punches, Ahmetovs connects with a chopping left hook which sends his female counterpart crashing to the deck.<\/p>\n
It is unclear whether Shields returned to her feet and continued the session as the video ends with the three-weight champion staring straight up at the ceiling.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Ahmetovs, who won six of his seven professional contests from 2019-20, appeared to post footage from the sparring session in response to a claim by Shields back in September that an unnamed fighter dropped her after taking the padding out of his gloves.<\/p>\n
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Female boxing world champion Claressa Shields is sent tumbling to the canvas in shocking footage from her 2018 sparring session with a male boxer<\/p>\n
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Latvian fighter Arturs Ahmetovs recently shared a clip which shows him sparring with Shields, who is left staring up at the ceiling after being knocked down<\/p>\n
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Shields is an undisputed middleweight champion and one of the greatest ever female fighters<\/p>\n
‘I’ve been dropped in sparring once by a guy,’ she said. ‘But the guy I sparred, he was like a little Russian hater, he took the padding out of his gloves.<\/p>\n
‘I whopped his a** on the Monday, and his coach wanted to spar again on Thursday. He caught me, but he didn’t have no padding in his gloves. He knows exactly who he is.’<\/p>\n
Ahmetovs then posted a clip of Shields’ comments followed by his shot which put her down in the now-infamous sparring session.<\/p>\n
‘It\u2019s nice that you remember me @claressashields,’ he wrote before his coach Derik Santos added: ‘She is full of s***, they asked for help to spar, why would we want to spar a women [sic]?<\/p>\n
‘No one took padding out of the gloves. After she was accusing of this, the gloves were handed to her coach.\u00a0<\/p>\n
‘But more importantly she sparred 2 rounds prior where […] artur was instructed not to hit her hard, while he was working with her she started talking mad s*** at him and fouling him to [the] point she tripped him.’<\/p>\n
After Ahmetovs released the sparring footage, Shields doubled down on her claim that he removed padding from his gloves in a series of posts on X.<\/p>\n
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But she claims\u00a0Ahmetovs, who has not boxed since 2020, removed padding from his gloves<\/p>\n
She said: ‘One thing for sure, if I went public 2018 about how this fellow professional boxer & boxing trainer took his padding out his gloves to spar against me because I embarrassed him earlier that week, it would have jeopardized my upcoming world title fight.<\/p>\n
‘I\u2019ve never been Ko\u2019d in 17 years and I\u2019ve been dropped 2x all in a week of each other. I have no shame in that. But for a male fighter to literally take the padding out his gloves, he\u2019s a punk. Him and coach Derrick santos are bad for the sport!\u00a0<\/p>\n
‘I didn\u2019t say anything because I didn\u2019t want my opponent to have information of me getting dropped leading up to my fight. But why keep a video hidden for 5 years and you so big and bad – F*** outta here.’<\/p>\n