Claressa Shields: Cris Cyborg turned down $2 million to fight me at 154 pounds

Claressa Shields has revealed why a boxing bout against Cris Cyborg fell through.

During a recent interview, Shields discussed a previous offer for the proposed Cyborg fight, which the Brazilian allegedly turned down.

Shields says a sparring session changed her relationship with Cris Cyborg
Shields claims Cyborg turned down a $2 million offer to box her, despite them being on good terms.

“But as far as Cris, she turned $2 million already back when a guy from Saudi had $3 million for her,” Shields told TMZ Sports. “Well, $3 million for me and $2 million for her and we could [do that at] 154 [pounds]. She turned it down and that's back when we were cool.”

The American now claims that they aren’t on good terms, speculating that the bad blood stems from a previous training session, which Shields claims to have dominated.

“Right now, she got all this, ‘Oh, she don't like me,’” Shields added. “I think she don't like me because I whooped her a*s in sparring. That's what happened. She got like this edited clip that she begged me to let her and her team put together. But I had every round when we sparred and I know for a fact she was a deer in headlights. I beat her. Yeah. Yes. It was easy work.”

Shields recently finished Kay Scott to win the WBA and WBC female middleweight titles, while Cyborg beat Ketlen Vieira in his last mixed martial arts bout in the Professional Fighters League.