If all goes according to plan, Claressa Shields hopes one day to be fighting against all-time great Cris Cyborg in MMA.
The highly decorated boxing champion and two-time Olympic gold medalist knows there’s a long road ahead to get to that point, but if it was up to her, Cyborg would be her ideal matchup in MMA. The possibility of a Shields-Cyborg bout did become a little more real now that the PFL, for which Shields fights in MMA, purchased Bellator, which is Cyborg’s home.
“The fight that I see – it’s the scariest fight for me in MMA – would be me vs. Cris Cyborg,” Shields told MMA Junkie Radio. “She’s a GOAT in MMA, and I’m a GOAT in boxing, and we both have multiple world titles in our field.
