Claressa Shields won’t be asking Jake Paul for an autograph anytime soon. 

The two-time Olympian, three-division women’s boxing world champion, and current MMA practitioner made her feelings about the polarizing 24-year-old YouTuber-boxer abundantly clear during a press conference held Wednesday for her upcoming Oct. 27 Professional Fighters League headliner against Abigail Montes in Hollywood, Florida. 

One reporter was prompted to ask Shields if she would ever fight on a Jake Paul card in light of Paul’s recent support for Amanda Serrano, the seven-division champion. In addition to publicly praising Serrano, Paul, who is coming off an eight-round cruiserweight split decision over former MMA star Tyrone Woodley, has pushed for bigger paydays for the decorated boxer, going so far as to become her co-manager. 

Shields, however, wants nothing to do with the “circus show” that is a Jake Paul card. 

“Don’t ever disrespect me,” Shields said. “I would never fight on the undercard of a Jake Paul [card]. I’m a three-time division world champion, two-time Olympian in boxing. I would never fight on the undercard of Jake Paul. 

The Flint, Michigan native also stated that she would never participate in another boxing match for the amount of money Serrano made for her last fight, in August, on the Paul-Woodley card in Cleveland; the Ohio athletic commission listed Serrano’s purse as $75,000. Paul claimed to have given Serrano a bonus of $500,000 - but the exact figure of the bonus was never confirmed by the boxer herself.

“I don’t know what Amanda Serrano’s purse was, but I think it was $75,000, $100,000. I would never fight another boxing match for that much money because I”m worth so much more,” Shields said. “I’m a million dollar fighter.” 

That comment reflects Shields' long-held distaste for the boxing business and is one reason why she has simultaneously pursued a career in MMA. Shields could end up with a million dollar payday if she finishes on top in the PFL tournament. 

Money aside, Shields (11-0, 2 KOs) simply believes an uncredentialed newbie like Paul (4-0, 3 KOs) has no business being in the same sentence as her — much less the same card. She even suggested she could take on – and defeat – the much bigger Paul inside the ring. 

“And before I get on the undercard of a guy that’s having a circus show, no disrespect to Tyrone Woodley, no disrespect to Jake Paul, but I’m a real boxer,” Shields said. Like, I can beat up Jake Paul at the weight class I’m at right now. So, no, I would never fight on the undercard of somebody who does not possess the skills or the accomplishments that I have.”