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Claressa Shields hits back at B.J. Saunders’ joke with self-defense video

Claressa Shields has a message for Billy Joe Saunders and all the women in abusive relationships around the world…

Claressa Shields didn’t find it funny when Billy Joe Saunders joked about hitting women in a viral video clip that prompted the British Board of Boxing Control to suspend his boxing license for the foreseeable future. 

So Shields clapped back at Saunders on Sunday in a video of her own on Twitter. In the video, Shields purports to show “all women in abusive relationships” how to respond to violent men. You aim for below the belt, apparently. 

“You see this bag here? Women, we may not be as strong as men, but we are smarter,” Shields said, as she faced a punching bag. “What I want you girls to do is when a guy goes here – a right hand and tries to come back with a hook, tries to put your lights out – what I want you to do: You duck, and when you duck, you hit him right there.

“You see where that’s at? That’s not the stomach ladies. That is the nuts. Hit him as hard as you can in the nuts.That should make him hit the ground and fall like that. And then you can get away from him. A tutorial for all the women in abusive relationships.”

Billy Joe Saunders’ boxing license suspended by BBBofC

Billy Joe Saunders has done it again. The super middleweight has been suspended by the BBBofC after posting a disturbing video…

Billy Joe Saunders is doing his best to be headline fodder these days.

Two days after the super middleweight titleholder apologized for posting a disturbing video joking about inflicting physical harm to women, the British Boxing Board of Control, the regulatory body that oversees professional boxing in the U.K., suspended the boxer’s license. 

In the video, Saunders explains how men can deal with their frustrations with women during the ongoing coronavirus pandemic that has forced citizens around the globe to stay indoors.

“If your old woman is giving you mouth and you try to be patient, you try to be calm, but after the seventh day or sixth you’re about to explode,” Saunders says, before ripping a hard one-two on the heavy bag. “So, as she comes in, she’s just about to say something and you explode and hit her on the chin.”

That didn’t go over well with the BBBofC.

“The British Boxing Board of Control having considered comments made by Billy Joe Saunders on social media have suspended his boxer’s licen[s]e  pending a hearing under the Board’s misconduct regulation, at a time and venue to be confirmed as soon as possible,” the organization said in a statement on their website. 

In a now-deleted tweet, Saunders, 30, offered an apology, saying that he would “never condone domestic violence. He Tweeted: “If I saw a man touch a woman I would smash him to pieces myself. Apologies if I offended any women.”

Saunders was projected to face Canelo Alvarez on May 2 in Las Vegas, but the fight, along with scores of other cards worldwide, has been tabled as a result of the pandemic.

This isn’t the first time Saunders’ clownish behavior has run afoul of regulatory protocol. He was fined £100,000 ($132,000) by the governing body in 2018 for posting a video online in which he offered a female passerby drugs to perform a sex act on another person.