{"id":87557,"date":"2025-08-23T14:09:15","date_gmt":"2025-08-23T14:09:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/87557\/"},"modified":"2025-08-23T14:09:15","modified_gmt":"2025-08-23T14:09:15","slug":"laila-ali-addresses-claressa-shields-challenge-and-future-in-boxing-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/87557\/","title":{"rendered":"Laila Ali Addresses Claressa Shields Challenge and Future in Boxing | News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bet.com\/tag\/czy1p9\/laila-ali\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">Laila Ali<\/a> continues to play coy about potentially stepping into the ring with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bet.com\/tag\/qrk5yh\/claressa-shields\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">Claressa Shields<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>During an interview with \u201cGood Day D.C.\u201d, Ali was asked about the possibility of facing Shields. She recalled a similar question from the Netflix special she hosted between Amanda Serrano and Katie Taylor, noting that she had <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bet.com\/article\/gcycfn\/laila-ali-says-shed-consider-fighting-claressa-shields-if-the-price-is-right\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">responded<\/a> she would \u201cthink about it\u201d if offered $15\u2013$20 million.<\/p>\n<p>She went on to explain that after the viral moment, Shields inserted herself into the conversation, sparking an even larger discourse. The 47-year-old retired legend emphasized that her current focus is on her new cooking competition series, \u201cChef Grudge Match.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI will tell you this, right now I\u2019m focused on this and everything else that I\u2019m doing,\u201d she shared.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou will know my answer where I stand with boxing very soon.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>RELATED: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bet.com\/article\/8xwj7m\/claressa-shields-calls-out-laila-ali-over-possible-return-to-the-ring\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">Claressa Shields Calls Out Laila Ali Over Possible Return to the Ring<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The host followed up by questioning Ali\u2019s stance on legacy, referencing the Mike Tyson vs. Jake Paul bout and asking what that concept looks like for women in boxing.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhat\u2019s amazing, and why I even said I would think about it, is because there isn\u2019t any other women. I\u2019ve been out of the ring for almost 20 years, and all I needed to do was say I\u2019ll think. Now, I\u2019m getting multiple, multi-million dollar offers,\u201d she admitted.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI was like, wow, imagine if I came back to boxing and break that ceiling for women and raise the bar for them again. Just like I did the first time when I was boxing. There\u2019s not going to be, anytime soon, another woman that can ask for that money and receive it. When you talk about legacy, that could be a part of my legacy. But, there\u2019s so much I\u2019d have to consider to prepare for something like that and stop all the other things I\u2019m doing. Not sure if I want to do that. You\u2019ll be knowing really soon. Because I\u2019m going to answer that question on my time and the way I want to do it \u2014 because if anyone is calling the shots, it\u2019s going to be me.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Laila Ali continues to play coy about potentially stepping into the ring with Claressa Shields.\u00a0 During an interview&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":87558,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[2560,101,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-87557","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-boxing","8":"tag-boxing","9":"tag-sports","10":"tag-uk","11":"tag-united-kingdom","12":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87557","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=87557"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87557\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/87558"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=87557"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=87557"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=87557"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}