Claressa Shields was riding high off her GWOATS auditions when an X account under the name Mona Scott hit her with a string of insults, and a lot of people instantly assumed the Love & Hip Hop boss had joined the pile on. The account does not appear to belong to the famed producer.
The two time Olympic gold medalist took to X after the Detroit casting call for GWOATS: Fight For Your Life, her new reality competition series with Zeus Network. “Those women really wanted it! The fights, the stories, the pain! I seen so much of myself in those girls!” she wrote, before thanking Zeus “for believing in my vision.” In a follow up post, she called it an “amazing production” and added, “This is what these women need! I’m humbled!!!”
The show puts women in the ring for a shot at the GWOAT herself, and Zeus has made clear applicants do not need to be professional boxers. Shields has been pushing the idea for months, first offering $100,000 to any woman who thought she could beat her.
Not everyone was clapping. A verified account named Mona Scott, with the handle @MonaTheOne1954, replied to Shields and Zeus with “Guttah Rat [expletive] FOH.” Shields kept it cool. “It actually wasn’t! Very organized. The girls earned their spots,” she shot back.
The account came back harder. “You’re a clown and you are an embarrassment to the sport of Women’s Boxing!!!! You want to be a Baddie so Bad…But You Ain’t Bad Enough…Clown [expletive] Sidechick,” it wrote. Shields laughed it off. “You so mad ain’t got no motion. I’m very bad! Actually the baddest! Now keep tweeting,” she replied.
The Baddie line is a shot at Zeus, the network behind the Baddies franchise. The sidechick line goes after Claressa Shields’ relationship with Papoose, the Brooklyn rapper who split from his longtime wife Remy Ma. The romance has kept Shields in the crossfire online, including a back and forth with 50 Cent earlier this year.
Screenshots of the posts started circulating with people treating them as a jab from Mona Scott Young, the creator of Love & Hip Hop. On the surface, the connection made sense. Papoose and Remy Ma were Love & Hip Hop New York staples, and Mona built an empire on exactly this kind of drama.
The details do not line up. Mona Scott Young was born in February 1967, which makes her an Aquarius. The account flexing a “Libra Gang” profile picture has “1954” in its handle. Nothing publicly ties @MonaTheOne1954 to the producer, and Baller Alert could not confirm who runs it. Mona Scott Young has not addressed the posts.
After the exchange, Claressa Shields blocked the account, which then posted a screenshot showing the block. She is undefeated, has won titles in five weight classes, and stopped Kaye Scott in six rounds at State Farm Arena in August. Right now her attention looks locked on GWOATS and the women who showed up in Detroit hoping to earn a spot.