Claressa Shields Has Been Banned From All MVP Events After Altercation With Alycia Baumgardner. Alycia Says She’s Also Taking Legal Action

Intuit Dome, May 16, 2026. Ronda Rousey beat Gina Carano in seconds. The undercard was not the story that traveled. The VIP argument was.

Video shows Shields and Baumgardner going at each other verbally. Then Shields reaches and connects. Most Valuable Promotions — Jake Paul and Nakisa Bidarian — put out the house rule: zero tolerance for hostile or aggressive behavior at their events. Physical contact outside the ring or cage is unacceptable. Shields was there as a guest. Effective immediately, banned from all MVP events until further notice. Tension and banter have a place. A slap in a private VIP area is not that place, they said. They added it reflects poorly on women’s sports they say they have tried to lift.

Baumgardner is signed to MVP. Her statement: physically assaulted without provocation. She said she will handle it legally and professionally. She also referenced Shields celebrating other fighters’ injuries in public — that is her framing, not a finding.

Shields posted that Baumgardner had physically threatened her. That is her framing. MVP did not adopt it. The ban named one athlete.

They shared a London card in 2022. They have shared a weight-class conversation in women’s boxing for years. None of that licenses a hand in a suite. None of a suite video settles who said what first. Promoters protect the building. Fighters protect the narrative. Lawyers get the rest if a filing actually lands. Baumgardner has not, in the coverage, named a court or a count yet. “Legal action” is a sentence. A complaint is a document.

Shields is a two-time Olympic gold medalist and a multi-weight undisputed champion. Baumgardner is unified at super feather. The sport is small enough that they keep landing in the same rooms. MVP just closed one of those rooms to one of them.

The graphic is belts on the left, arms folded on the right. The ban is a guest list. The lawsuit is still a promise. The clip is already the evidence both sides will play.