Claressa Shields is not about to let anyone paint her as the bothered one, and she made that crystal clear in a fresh round of posts on X. The undisputed boxing champion, who also raps under the name Ressa Da Gwoat, has been the subject of relentless speculation that she is too caught up in her ongoing tension with Remy Ma. So when a fan came for her directly, Claressa Shields did what she does best both in the ring and online. She fired back without flinching.
It started when an X user going by Kalya love tried to read her.
“You so press about Remy you thinking she dissing you,” the fan wrote. “You so damn delusional.” For a lot of public figures, that kind of comment gets ignored. Claressa Shields is not most public figures. She quote tweeted it with the kind of dismissiveness that only fuels a good back and forth.
“I’m pressed ????” she wrote, adding a pair of crying laughing emojis. “In your fkn dreams.” The message was short, but the energy behind it told the whole story. She wants everyone to know the idea of her losing sleep over Remy Ma is, in her words, a fantasy.
Then Claressa Shields zoomed out and made a bigger point, the one that has fans buzzing. She pushed back on the entire premise that vague subliminals even count as disses aimed at her.
“I’ve been addressed by name in songs. Maybe like 6 songs now,” she wrote. “If a b!tch ain’t saying my name she not dissin me. Cause I’ll 100% diss anybody back!” Then came the line that turned the post into a moment. “Just say my name like Destiny’s Child!” she added, tagging it with #PapRightHere, #claressashields, #Ms8MillionDollarWoman, and #ClaressaVsEverybody. The Destiny’s Child reference was a clever flip. If you really have something to say, put her government name in the bars, or it does not count.
For anyone just tuning in, the road to this moment has been long and messy. The friction between Claressa Shields and Remy Ma traces back to 2024, when Remy accused her then husband Papoose of having an affair with the boxer. Papoose fired back with his own accusations, the marriage unraveled in public, and he eventually filed for divorce in May 2025. By that November, Claressa Shields and Papoose had taken things to the next level and announced their engagement, which only kept the chatter going. The two camps have been trading shots in one form or another ever since.
Remy Ma has chosen to handle a lot of that tension on wax. She sent shots on Connie Diiamond’s record “Head Tap” in 2025, and this past April she dropped a freestyle titled “W.Y.F.L.” on the show “On The Radar,” that fans widely read as aimed at both Papoose and Claressa Shields. On that track, Remy rapped about someone being “in competition with herself” and dismissed her target as someone who wants to be a baddie but is “not bad enough.”
Claressa Shields took exception to that one, hopping on her own platforms to make clear she felt she was the one winning. The “say my name” demand reads as a direct answer to all of it. From her point of view, subliminals are for people who are scared to be specific.
What makes the whole situation pop is that Claressa Shields is leaning all the way into the underdog turned villain energy with her hashtags. #ClaressaVsEverybody is not just a catchy tag. It is basically her current reality. Beyond Remy Ma, the champ has also been locked in a separate war of words with 50 Cent, who has been trolling her online for months and whom she threatened with legal action earlier this year. Add in her growing rap catalog and the boxing accolades, and you get a woman who is comfortable taking on multiple fronts at once and seemingly enjoying it.
It also speaks to how Claressa Shields wants to be perceived. She has spent her career being told she is too loud, too confident, too much, and she has consistently responded by getting louder. Framing herself as Ms8MillionDollarWoman and inviting all the smoke is on brand for someone who has built an entire identity around being unbothered and undefeated. Whether or not the haters believe she is pressed, she clearly believes the best response is to laugh, post, and keep it moving.
For now, the ball is in everyone else’s court. Claressa Shields has essentially issued a challenge to anyone who wants to test her, in music or in conversation. Say her name plainly, or do not bother. And if they do say it, she has promised she will have something to say right back, because in her world a diss without your name on it is just background noise.
