{"id":101776,"date":"2023-12-11T15:41:07","date_gmt":"2023-12-11T15:41:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebritycovernews.com\/?p=101776"},"modified":"2023-12-11T15:41:07","modified_gmt":"2023-12-11T15:41:07","slug":"male-boxer-posts-clip-of-him-flooring-female-champion-claressa-shields","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebritycovernews.com\/sport\/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":"<h1> Male boxer shares shocking clip of him FLOORING Claressa Shields in 2018 sparring session &#8211; but female world champion claims he took padding out of his gloves before entering the ring<\/h1>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Latvia&#8217;s Arturts Ahmetovs shared footage of him flooring Shields with a big left<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>But the undisputed women&#8217;s middleweight champion says it involved foul play<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>DailyMail.com provides all the latest international sports news\u00a0<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>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<p>Latvian fighter\u00a0Arturs Ahmetovs recently shared a clip which shows him sparring with Shields, an undisputed champion in the women&#8217;s middleweight division.<\/p>\n<p>As the pair exchange punches, Ahmetovs connects with a chopping left hook which sends his female counterpart crashing to the deck.<\/p>\n<p>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<p>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<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2023\/12\/11\/14\/78823457-12850453-image-m-58_1702304618235.jpg\" height=\"465\" width=\"306\"><br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2023\/12\/11\/14\/78822291-12850453-image-m-60_1702304635292.jpg\" height=\"465\" width=\"306\"><\/p>\n<p>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<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2023\/12\/11\/14\/78823461-12850453-image-m-62_1702304658650.jpg\" height=\"672\" width=\"634\"><\/p>\n<p>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<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2023\/12\/11\/14\/78823643-12850453-image-a-63_1702304704653.jpg\" height=\"423\" width=\"634\"><\/p>\n<p>Shields is an undisputed middleweight champion and one of the greatest ever female fighters<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;I&#8217;ve been dropped in sparring once by a guy,&#8217; she said. &#8216;But the guy I sparred, he was like a little Russian hater, he took the padding out of his gloves.<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;I whopped his a** on the Monday, and his coach wanted to spar again on Thursday. He caught me, but he didn&#8217;t have no padding in his gloves. He knows exactly who he is.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>Ahmetovs then posted a clip of Shields&#8217; comments followed by his shot which put her down in the now-infamous sparring session.<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;It\u2019s nice that you remember me @claressashields,&#8217; he wrote before his coach Derik Santos added: &#8216;She is full of s***, they asked for help to spar, why would we want to spar a women [sic]?<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;No one took padding out of the gloves. After she was accusing of this, the gloves were handed to her coach.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;But more importantly she sparred 2 rounds prior where [&#8230;] 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.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>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<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2023\/12\/11\/14\/78823689-12850453-image-a-64_1702304724966.jpg\" height=\"796\" width=\"634\"><\/p>\n<p>But she claims\u00a0Ahmetovs, who has not boxed since 2020, removed padding from his gloves<\/p>\n<p>She said: &#8216;One thing for sure, if I went public 2018 about how this fellow professional boxer &amp; 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<p>&#8216;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<p>&#8216;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 &#8211; F*** outta here.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/sport\/boxing\/article-12850453\/Claressa-Shields-boxing-male-boxer-sparring-video.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read Full Article<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Male boxer shares shocking clip of him FLOORING Claressa Shields in 2018 sparring session &#8211; but female world champion claims<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":101775,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.8 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Male boxer posts clip of him FLOORING female champion Claressa Shields - Celebrity Cover News<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/celebritycovernews.com\/sport\/male-boxer-posts-clip-of-him-flooring-female-champion-claressa-shields\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Male boxer posts clip of him FLOORING female champion Claressa Shields - Celebrity Cover News\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Male boxer shares shocking clip of him FLOORING Claressa Shields in 2018 sparring session &#8211; 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