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