Claressa Shields has claimed to offer Laila Ali a whopping $15million for a generational super-fight \u2013 but does she even have the money?<\/p>\n
The legendary former champion, whose father is the iconic Muhammad Ali<\/a>, is 47-years-old and has been retired from boxing<\/a> for 18 years. Despite this, Shields has been keen to make a super-fight between the pair through her entire career, which her rival has not seemed to have reciprocated.<\/p>\n Ali has recently re-emerged as a figure in the sport with her analysis work on Netflix\u2019s Katie Taylor<\/a> vs Amanda Serrano<\/a> trilogy. And while working that show, she laid out an unattainable goal for promoters to put up $15million in order to get her out of retirement.<\/p>\n Claressa Shields dubiously claims to have $15million offer for Laila Ali<\/p>\n In a video released to TMZ Sports<\/a>, Claressa Shields<\/a> claimed that record label Wynn Records were going to put up a $15million purse in order to get Laila Ali out of retirement. But if you look into the video, all is not what it seems.<\/p>\n First of all, there isn\u2019t a recognized fight promoter in the video at all, aside from Shields\u2019 manager Mark Taffet who seems to be the only boxing mind aside from the fighter herself. <\/p>\n Ruben Branson\u2019s Wynn Records claims to have organized the money, but their only proof of this is a novelty cheque from a bank that doesn\u2019t exist at an address that also doesn\u2019t exist.<\/p>\n Taffet claims that they are looking at either Dallas Cowboys Stadium, which can fit as many as 105,000 fans, or T-Mobile Arena in Las Vegas as fight venues. However, even that offers quite a disparity as T-Mobile can only hold 20,000, which means the scale of the event would be reduced significantly.<\/p>\n \u201cLaila, I\u2019m here with my team. I got some great news for you. We got the $15 million!\u201d Shields boasts in the video, before introducing the comical check. \u201cLet\u2019s make a fight between me and you. <\/p>\n \u201cThe best versus the best. The greats versus the greats. The GWOAT versus Muhammad Ali\u2019s daughter, Laila Ali. Let\u2019s make it happen.\u201d<\/p>\n Laila Ali set monstrous price during tongue-in-cheek interview<\/p>\n The $15million price tag was offered up by Ali while speaking with FightHype. Her actual comment noted that the offer of such a monstrous payout would only be the catalyst for a conversation, given how long she has been out of the ring and her general disinterest in a comeback.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n \u201cWhat I heard was that I said \u2018unless somebody got $15-20million don\u2019t even call me about this\u2019,\u201d Ali said. \u201cUnless somebody calls me and says they have it, we\u2019re not even going to have a conversation.<\/p>\n \u201cI\u2019m not trying to come back and fight, but if someone offered that kind of money I would actually have to think about it. Do I look like I could fight again? I think so.\u201d<\/p>\n Bloody Elbow has contacted a representative for Ali to see if she has received any more serious offer from Wynn Records or Shields\u2019 team behind the scenes.<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Claressa Shields has claimed to offer Laila Ali a whopping $15million for a generational super-fight \u2013 but does…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":12241,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[2560,8025,8026,8027,101,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-12240","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-boxing","8":"tag-boxing","9":"tag-claressa-shields","10":"tag-laila-ali","11":"tag-muhammad-ali","12":"tag-sports","13":"tag-uk","14":"tag-united-kingdom","15":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12240","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12240"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12240\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12241"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12240"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12240"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12240"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}