‘Don’t Nobody Care About That Bitter Lady’: Claressa Shields Fires Back After Remy Ma Declares Baumgardner ‘The Face of Women’s Boxing’

Alycia Baumgardner had barely finished answering the first question when the microphone changed hands. The new champion stood in the ring with the light-blue belt over her shoulder when Remy Ma stepped in, took the mic, and told the room exactly who she thought women’s boxing belonged to.

Baumgardner had just beaten Elif Nur Turhan by unanimous decision on Sunday night at the College Park Center in Arlington, Texas — 100-90 on all three cards — to become a two-division world champion. The interview was supposed to be her moment. Remy had other plans: “She’s the face of women’s boxing! The face! Yes! She’s the face!”

Asked if she had anything left to prove, Baumgardner pointed at herself, repeated the line, and deflected the praise toward Remy. The The Shade Room clip had drawn 29,000 likes and more than 6,500 comments by Monday. Then Claressa Shields weighed in.

One Belt, Two Claims To The Throne

Shields, the undisputed champion, answered on X on Monday afternoon: “Man don’t nobody care about that bitter lady jumping up there yelling that mess 😂😂 Go play.” The screenshot, carried by Tea With Tia and Hollywood Unlocked, turned a ringside interruption into a full feud overnight.

The two camps split exactly the way you would expect. Shields’ supporters point to the record: Olympic golds, an undefeated run, and a claim to the greatest-of-all-time tag that no single belt changes. In their telling, Remy hijacked Baumgardner’s night to settle something that had nothing to do with the fight. Remy’s side calls it loyalty — a friend hyping a friend after the biggest win of her career.

There is history underneath it. Commenters link the bad blood to the feud’s backstory around Papoose, Remy’s ex-husband, and his relationship with Shields — but that is commenter inference, not anything Remy said into the microphone. It has never been stated by Remy as her motive. What is on the record is simpler: a declaration, a clapback, and two fan bases picking sides.

The replies kept score their own way. One unnamed commenter wrote: “People who don’t care, don’t comment.” Another added: “Hit dog holler.” Both lines cut the same way — Shields saying she did not care, while caring enough to post about it. Baumgardner, meanwhile, earned a 100-90 sweep on every card and lost the headline for it: a coronation that became somebody else’s argument before the belt was even cold.

Viewers could not agree on whose face women’s boxing wears, or whether the ring or the timeline gets to decide. And neither champion looks ready to let the other have the last word.