Claressa Shields Says She's Working W/ Boxing Commissions To Fix Drug Testing

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Claressa Shields is determined to prevent other boxers from experiencing the hell she went through with her recent false-positive drug test ... telling TMZ Sports she's working with boxing commissions to improve the entire process.

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00:00You felt like disrespected by the boxing community and the boxing organization you know about this

00:08whole you know marijuana thing and they what do you think they need to do to make this right you

00:13know well I'm gonna be working with the Michigan Commission and other commissions to measure that

00:17the right steps are taken when like a fighter does test positive for anything I mean I tested

00:22positive for marijuana it wasn't even a PD but how it was spread it to the world they made it as

00:26if I had a PD or something right like oh you had some type of advantage or something and that's

00:33like damaging to my reputation into my career like where I'm trying to go in boxing and what

00:37I'm trying to do I can't have type of stuff on my name and nothing is wrong with weed but I've but

00:41I've never smoked it I'm never ate it so it's just like why put that on me and then to make

00:46the suspension such a big deal like I was suspended from boxing and I was a threat to the sport is

00:52their motion to like yo like hey deal with that in the legal realm you know what I'm saying like

00:57me to get yourself squared away properly and you know me me and my team have been have been working

01:04behind the scenes to get some things done I mean I'm not a bitter person you know I don't want to

01:08have to sue all these networks who went out there and blasted me like that but I will but I don't

01:13want to do what we're trying to do is what can we do to help athletes moving forward we have to deal

01:18with this because one is different type of things you can test positive for it things that are

01:24actually dangerous to other fighters and it's reasons I think it just it needs to be better

01:30what is it better better protocol when something like that happens right one I never even had a

01:38chance to defend myself before everybody put the news out there right and then before the news got

01:42put out there somebody leaked it and said it was a possible PD so I got a possible PD and then it

01:48comes out that it's marijuana and then it comes that I'm suspended and it was like all that was

01:53just incorrect who protects the athlete in this manner you know and I feel like all these people

01:58that was posted they don't even post when I win right you know I don't even know if is if ESPN

02:04posted when I did when I became the first woman to be a the heavyweight undisputed champ so it's

02:08like damn y'all opposed this they want to post the L's that ain't even real yeah when I just

02:15fought this fucking giant who's six who's six to almost 200 pounds and I was 175 they don't want

02:21to post that when I when I win this fight but they want to post the other stuff it was like you know

02:25it just gave my respect and make that make that make that apology loud because it's because it

02:32really deserved and it's only be 16 and old like you know doing all this it's like come on now

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