Claressa Shields meets Alycia Baumgardner on flight, prompting online quarrel
Rivals Claressa Shields and Alycia Baumgardner were forced into a face-off, of sorts, as the two clashed when they boarded the same flight.
‘The Bomb’ Baumgardner took to Instagram to film and poke fun at her former friend. Alongside the video was a caption reading, “Not her following me @claressashields. She really don’t want it.”
The video appeared to get under the pound-for-pound titan’s skin with her clearly being heard shouting “STOP” and promptly taking to X, tearing into Baumgardner on the social media platform.
“Me and Alycia on the same flight to LA – she is the biggest clout chaser – had to let her ass know in front of the whole plane”.
She followed up her original tweet claiming that “Buam” is a clown and a “clout chaser”.
The 29-year-old appears eager to pull Shields into contract negotiations taking to X herself and stating, “I’ll settle the beef in the ring!! Beat my ass if you so confident”.
This comes after a long-dragged-on feud between the two, with Alycia also calling out the undisputed middleweight champion in December.
The super featherweight champion is currently indefinitely suspended from the ring after testing positive for mesterolone and methenolone last July, though she continues to proclaim her innocence.
It is hard to imagine that a fight between the two will ever come to fruition due to the huge gulf in weight. Shields currently fights at around 30 pounds heavier than her counterpart. If they were to compromise and meet somewhere in the middle, the weight advantage for the self-proclaimed “GWOAT” would be so great, that it almost seems fruitful for her fellow American to chase a fight between the two
Nevertheless, we will have to wait until Baumgardner is cleared to get back into the ring to truly see if there is any hope of seeing a meeting between the two undisputed champions.