Through Candid Edwards
December 31, 2025
Hopefully 2026 will bring better luck and positive press for the record-breaking, history-making boxer.
Boxing champion Claressa Shields is under scrutiny online after asking a woman and her children to leave a toy drive she organized in Flint, Michigan.
On social media, Shields discussed the incident that occurred during her annual Christmas giveaway. She described the woman as a “troll” who had repeatedly criticized Shields online before attending the giveaway.
“She was trolling me online and saying she was going to spit on me. You know, she was just making up messages and talking about me all the time. It got to the point where I was blocking the girl on everything.”
Shields told the woman, “Don’t even make a big scene, just go.” Shields believed the woman’s presence was not in good faith, but related to previous hostile online behavior.
“I had my Christmas present and the girl got to the front of the line with her kids. The bigger person in me, the god in me, thought, man, it’s cool that she’s here to get presents or something. But she was online and said I was broke. I’m ugly this, I’m ugly that, I can’t get dressed, and she’s going to spit on me… I went to her and found her at the front of the line, smiled in her face and said, ‘Go away.’”
Shields later expressed regret after learning the woman and her children were unhoused. She stated that she might have handled the situation differently if she had known their circumstances.
Shields, a Flint native and multi-division world champion, has regularly hosted holiday giveaways and community events in the city as part of her philanthropic efforts, which have been positively received. While her events have always been well received, Shields herself sometimes goes the wrong way on the internet.
Lately, her relationship antics with married rapper Papoose have had the internet giving her the side eye. The world champion boxer often engages in back-and-forth comments online with fans and the rapper’s famous wife. Remy Ma. Shields also extended an open invitation to former women’s boxer Laila Ali to get back into the ring for a $15 million purse. Ali declined the offer. Reactions to her latest controversies have been mixed. Which unfortunately casts a shadow over the boxer’s good deeds. Hopefully 2026 will bring better luck and positive press for the record-breaking, history-making boxer.
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