Shields Says MVP 'Are Not Fair People' — and She'll Apologize When They Do

Label: REPORTED · Heat: WARM. This is an update to Kimster 278, where MVP's Nakisa Bidarian told the Shields side, after Alycia Baumgardner's title win, "So you make us the offer." Claressa Shields has now answered, on the record, to World Boxing News. Shields–Cameron is still not signed.

Shields told WBN: "MVP are not fair people. They want me to sign a disparagement agreement, but they don't want to sign one in return." And: "I don't go out of my way to say bad things about MVP or their fighters, but they constantly use my name, my brand, and my celebrity to help catapult their fighters and degrade my character while overlooking my accomplishments."

On the apology Bidarian has been asking for, she said: "Now they want an apology. They will go down in history for blocking one of the biggest fights in women's boxing while overlooking their champion." Then: "I'll apologize when MVP apologizes to me for the consistent disrespect toward me that started as early as them announcing Amanda Serrano as the Real GWOAT, and I had already put my blood, sweat, and tears into my career starting from a 10-year-old child!"

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She also said: "As far as the fight with me and Chantelle, Jake and Nakisa know she can't beat me in the fight, so they don't want me to have that win on my resume." And: "Just another play for them to overlook the fact that I am the greatest woman fighter." She added, "I'm going to stay focused and continue to make the best fights that I can and sell out arenas. I'm bigger than just boxing now."

The background, not the new news, is the fractured negotiation already in public. The Ring reports Dmitriy Salita saying MVP wanted a $25,000 liquidated-damages payment for negative comments about MVP or Jake Paul — Salita's allegation, not a finding. The same piece quotes Bidarian on X: "We have moved on. Next time, do not put an offer on the table and then change your mind." Those are the promoters' characterizations of a deal that has not been signed.

Fighter pages: Claressa Shields, Chantelle Cameron.

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