Cardi B’s kids just picked up an admirer with two Olympic gold medals and an undisputed championship belt to her name. Claressa Shields is offering her services as a trainer for Cardi B’s kids, and she made the offer public days after the rapper joked about needing backup from her children once she gets older. The moment started on Monday night (August 17) when Cardi hopped on an impromptu Instagram Live while eating dinner with two of her children, 8-year-old Kulture and 4-year-old Wave. Cardi asked her kids if they were ready for boxing classes the next day, and Kulture seemed hesitant. Cardi shut that down quickly, telling her daughter there was no quitting once she signed up.
From there, Cardi explained exactly why she wanted her children in the gym.
“This is the age where you need to learn how to fight,” she said, before getting into the real reason behind the lesson. “Never know when them b***hes gonna try you when you grow up and s**t cuz you in them white, good schools but you know you outside,” she continued. Cardi made clear she wasn’t going to always be around to fight her own battles, adding that if any of her adult daughters ever caught wind of someone disrespecting their mother, backup would be required.
“I ain’t going to be there for you all the time. And I got some bitches that I don’t like, so when you 25 and s**t and b***hes f**k with me? You know I’m like, ‘Yeah, b***h. Don’t make me bring out my daughter. Which daughter you want? Which daughter? … Both my daughters got them hands, and my sons.’ You understand?”
Cardi wasn’t done painting the picture either. She took the joke all the way to old age, imagining herself getting into it with someone decades from now and calling in reinforcements.
“When I’m like about 60, and I’m talking s**t to these b***hes, that’s when you come in,” she said, before switching into an elderly voice and acting out the phone call she’d make to Kulture. “‘Kulture, come beat this b***h a**. Yeah, she f**ked with me. I’m playing bingo. Yeah, I’m at bingo and this b***h f**king with me. Come over here and bring Blossom too. You’re going to jump her a**. Me, you, her, and my cane. What’s up?'”
The bit had Kulture cracking up, and clips of the livestream spread fast once fans got hold of them.
That’s where Shields entered the conversation. The boxer has crossed paths with Cardi before at meet-and-greets and public appearances, and she clearly caught wind of the viral clip. On Wednesday (August 19), Shields posted a direct offer on her X account, making it clear she was ready to get Cardi B’s kids into real training. “Bring em to me @iamcardib I’ll have them blacking eyes and busting lips in no time!” she wrote.
Bring em to me @iamcardib I’ll have them blacking eyes and busting lips in no time! https://t.co/FkarWZpcCg
— Claressa Gwoat Shields (@Claressashields) August 19, 2026
Shields isn’t just talking. She’s a two-time Olympic gold medalist, the first American boxer to win back-to-back Olympic titles, and she has unified every major belt in the middleweight division on her way to becoming undisputed champion. If Cardi B’s kids do end up training with her, they would be learning from someone considered one of the most dominant fighters, male or female, of her generation.
Cardi shares Kulture, Wave, and 1-year-old Blossom with her ex Offset, and she welcomed a fourth child, a son nicknamed Baby Brim, with her current partner Stefon Diggs last November. Whether Cardi actually takes Shields up on the offer or the whole exchange stays a running joke between two famous moms, it’s clear Kulture has already got backup lined up long before she turns 25.
