{"id":22087,"date":"2025-07-25T06:07:10","date_gmt":"2025-07-25T06:07:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/22087\/"},"modified":"2025-07-25T06:07:10","modified_gmt":"2025-07-25T06:07:10","slug":"you-let-it-die-muhammad-alis-daughter-put-on-blast-by-self-professed-gwoat-for-killing-womens-boxing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/22087\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;You let it die&#8217;\u2026 Muhammad Ali&#8217;s daughter put on blast by self-professed GWOAT for killing women&#8217;s boxing"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Muhammad Ali\u2019s daughter, who retired from boxing in 2007, has come under fire lately for ducking a fight with a fighter who calls herself the \u2018Greatest Woman of All Time\u2019.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bloodyknockout.com\/tag\/muhammad-ali\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Muhammad Ali<\/a>\u2018s daughter, Laila Ali, boxed from 1999 to 2007, amassing a record of 24-0 with 21 knockouts.<\/p>\n<p>She was a world champion and held a win over Christy Martin, who is the subject of an upcoming Hollywood biopic.<\/p>\n<p>She retired after a win over Gwendolyn O\u2019Neil in South Africa and has not stepped into a ring for 18 years. Despite that, there is one boxer who continues to call out Ali.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"788\" loading=\"lazy\"  src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/GettyImages-78128877-1024x788.jpg\" alt=\"Laila Ali poses beside Muhammad Ali after winning one of her fights\" class=\"wp-image-24733\" \/>Photo by Ed Mulholland\/WireImageClaressa Shields scolds Laila Ali for letting women\u2019s boxing die<\/p>\n<p>Claressa Shields has called out Laila Ali ahead of her upcoming fight with Lani Daniels in defense of her undisputed heavyweight titles.<\/p>\n<p>Shields stated that a fight with Ali was in talks, but that she has since gone quiet. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bloodyknockout.com\/news\/muhammad-alis-grandson-reacts-to-15-million-offer-from-claressa-shields-to-daughter-of-the-greatest\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Shields offered Ali $15 million<\/a> to come out of retirement and face her.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bloodyknockout.com\/news\/claressa-shields-refuses-to-reconcile-with-laila-ali-amid-ongoing-feud\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Shields, who has been in a feud with Ali<\/a> for a while, criticized the 47-year-old daughter of a legend, and said, <\/p>\n<p>\u201cShe\u2019s a pioneer, but she\u2019s not relevant right now. It\u2019s many girls that have come after her, and honestly, you know, the people give her props about how she built up women\u2019s boxing and I just don\u2019t feel the same way.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>Shields spoke on how she fought in 2017, and prior to that, \u201cthere wasn\u2019t a woman that have fought on TV in 20 years, and that was [Laila Ali] So it\u2019s like, what did you really do for women\u2019s boxing? Like you let it die.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The match-up is a strange one, though, as Ali is nearly 50 years old and hasn\u2019t boxed in almost 20 years, whilst Shields is 30 and the current heavyweight champion.<\/p>\n<p>Claressa Shields vs Laila Ali \u2013 The stats<\/p>\n<p>Though this is a fight that will likely never happen, and should never happen for the health of Ali, it\u2019s interesting to see how the two compare.<\/p>\n<p>Both Ali and Shields have accomplished a lot in their careers, with Shields being a four-division undisputed champion. Both sit alongside <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bloodyknockout.com\/tag\/katie-taylor\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Katie Taylor<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bloodyknockout.com\/tag\/amanda-serrano\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Amanda Serrano<\/a> as some of the most well-regarded female fighters in boxing.<\/p>\n<p>Claressa ShieldsLaila AliBoxing record16-024-0Last fight date20252018Weight in last fight173.5lbs168lbsAge3047Height &amp; reach5\u20198\u2033 &amp; 68\u20335\u201910\u201d &amp; 70.5\u2033Best winSavannah MarshallChristy Martin<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Muhammad Ali\u2019s daughter, who retired from boxing in 2007, has come under fire lately for ducking a fight&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":22088,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[2560,8027,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-22087","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-boxing","tag-boxing","tag-muhammad-ali","tag-sports","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22087","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=22087"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22087\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/22088"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22087"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22087"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22087"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}