Recently, a video of a sparring between Latvian lightweight Artur Akhmetov and a women's boxing legend appeared online. Claressa Shields. During this sparring, Shields was knocked down. For some reason, Akhmetov posted a video of this confrontation online:
Video of Arturs Ahmetovs knocking down Claressa Shields in sparring
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Clarissa later commented on this sparring as follows.
“I can say for sure that if I had gone public in 2018 with the story of this boxer and his trainer removing padding from their gloves to spar with me because earlier in the week I had made him look incompetent, I would have been putting the his upcoming title fight."