'Female Floyd Mayweather' Claressa Shields admits 'my greatness rubs up on people'

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Floyd Mayweather', 'the GWOAT' (Greatest Woman of all Time), 'the T-Rex' and 'the Wolf'.No, that is not the opening exchange of a woefully executed 'walked into a bar joke'.

Instead, they are just some of the many nicknames boxing behemoth Claressa Shields has been attributed. But in a few days’ time, the outspoken, controversial, but undoubtedly deadly, WBA, WBC, IBF, and The Ring middleweight champion will walk into a sold out O2 Arena to face Savannah Marshall - the WBO middleweight champion and the only woman to have beaten the American in the ring.Their status as the headliners of the first ever all women’s fight card has already cemented both fighters into boxing history, if they were not already chiselled into it.

However, this battle will be remembered not as the crowning achievement of women’s boxing, but as a brutal and, potentially final chapter of a vicious, personal rivalry characterising Shields as the villain of this affair.READ MORE: Savannah Marshall and Claressa Shields separated by security in furious insult exchange“I’m getting made out to be the bad guy in this fight, because people dislike me for how great I am,” Shields said, proudly, in an exclusive interview with Daily Star Sport. “People dislike me because of how vocal I am about women’s boxing, about how great I am about my skills and my accomplishments, and they see that as bragging or intimidating.“But when I speak about my record and I speak about what I have done, that’s not bragging, that’s facts.

That’s factual. You can go and find it in black and white.“If you just walk around like ‘I’m alright, I’m a decent fighter’ people may want to get behind you because they think ‘oh that’s a good person, they don’t make me feel intimidated’.