Name: Claressa Shields on Laila Ali Comparisons
Uploaded: 2021-03-17T00:02:14.000Z
Description: Watch the stand-up comedy video 'Claressa Shields on Laila Ali Comparisons' from PowerfulJRE on Comedy Buff. Published 2021-03-17. Transcript available.

Watch the stand-up comedy video 'Claressa Shields on Laila Ali Comparisons' from PowerfulJRE on Comedy Buff. Published 2021-03-17. Transcript available.

Was that a satisfying one for you because she was talking so much shit before
so?
It's not even about like the shit talking really. It was just about like how
dare you guys compare
her to me. That's what it was for me. It was like I had watched film of her and
I had my eyes set on
her since I was 17 before I even had turn pro and I knew then when I was 17 I
could have beat her.
So now that I'm you know I was like 22 or whatever 23 is like what the hell do
she do that make you
guys think she can beat me like either I'm just a terrible boxer or you guys
just I don't know
think she's that good. I think sometimes when someone's overwhelming like you
are people try
to pump up challengers in a way that they don't even really believe. You know
what I mean like
they kind of like I'm just gonna be honest I've had to do that before doing
commentary like pretend
like there was certain dudes that I knew they were gonna fight an accomplished
champion and you knew
they're fucked and so you have to kind of play their strong points but if you
caught me alone and it
was just you and me and it was like no recording equipment like he's fucked but
you can't necessarily
say that because it's disrespectful to the opponent and because you want to
kind of make it exciting
yeah well I'm a hype man you know that's what I'm trying to do if John Jones is
fighting someone
and I think John Jones is going to slaughter him I'm going to point out the guy's
strong points
I'll point out John's strong points and I'll point out the guy's strong points
and what he has to do
and what he can do and where he excels but sometimes they don't really believe
that shit and with you
I think the problem is they're always trying to sell fights right but it's it's
hard to sell when you
you here's everybody else right here's you your way you're you're you're so
advanced in comparison
like technique wise ability wise accomplishments wise there's not a lot of
competition for you in
boxing where people are calling out for other than occasionally people start
talking about
Leila Ali right occasionally that comes up well she's you know she's retired
she's retired and
she's probably 43 yeah and this is the thing I don't respect about that right I
hate when somebody else
try to take somebody else shine somebody else attention you know it's like yeah
she's you know
nobody was trying to take her take her attention when it was her time right and
that's why I didn't I
didn't like about hammer either when I went in a world title fight why are you
jumping in the ring
talking about some you beat us both you say congrats and get the fuck out the
ring you know but she's
getting there being disrespectful and then Leila gets upset because I become
undisputed champion
she's never been undisputed and people are comparing me to her and she gets
offended when it was like
to me I thought it was a good comparison because I feel like I box way better
than her
and for them to be saying that me and her are equal or whatever she should have
been happy
because of that because they're giving her more um more props on her skills
which I feel like she
didn't really have that much but you know whatever it was like I never really
had a problem with it
and then all of a sudden it's like talking about she'll knock me out and my
record and this and that
and I just was like hate her that's all I kept thinking to myself hate her and
I would have loved to
fight her but um at the end of the day I'm an active fighter she's retired so
when people bring her up
like I don't want to have to keep saying that I beat her because I think it's
evident but at the
same time it's like look it was she had her time this is my time they don't
even correlate with each
other yeah when was the last time she fought it was like I don't know 2016 or
something see if you
can find Layla Ali's last professional boxing fight you said 2016 you thinking
real no no she's been
retired like 13 12 years has it been that long yeah like I think her last fight
was 2001 was it
2007 I started boxing in 2006 I was like 11 years old and I started boxing so I
mean I was 12 so
basic she she retired and she was like 30. yeah which I took people all the
time I think that
that kind of eats at her you know she retired at 29 30 in boxing when she was
on top you know and it
was a lot of girls who wanted to fight her she left without fighting Anne Wolfe
left without fighting
a girl named La La Tisha Robinson it was a few girls who she didn't fight Anne
Wolfe was the scariest in
her day Anne Wolfe is still scary to me now she's so scary remember she was
training James Kirkland
screaming at him in the corner she's a terrifying trainer she's an amazing
trainer and terrifying
boxer yeah she has like in my opinion the most uh spectacular one punch knockout
in the history of
women's boxing I said history of boxing like that punch there was like what the
I mean yeah I dream
to get a knockout like that like I thought my last fight I'm like that's my
dream I want to knock this
girl out like Anne Wolfe knocked out my under war that was my whole thing but
it's like I feel for
that she retired kind of early so everybody always compared whoever was next up
to her but it was like
still you're retired yeah nobody nobody is nobody fought because you retired
have you ever worked with
Anne Wolfe no I would love to though yeah I would love to see that yeah I just
need to just show me
like how to sleep a girl yeah here it is boom man I'm talking about this girl
oh my goodness power
everything no Anne Wolfe was a monster and it's really interesting like when
she was training because
you know her her work ethic you could see it when she was training other
fighters like she demanded like
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