The 2025 BET Awards appear to be the reward that retains on giving. Not solely has B2K announced a 2026 reunion tour following their efficiency in the course of the “106 & Park” opening phase of the present, however it additionally looks as if we would have some beef brewing between two of the sports activities world’s hottest figures: world champion boxer Claressa Shields and WNBA famous person Angel Reese.
Reese received the 2025 “Sportswoman of the Yr” award at this 12 months’s BET Awards, and it will appear that Shields was none too completely happy about it. It’s onerous to inform if Shields was sad that she misplaced or if she was sad that she misplaced to Reese, who additionally beat out a fairly crowded subject that included Daybreak Staley, A’ja Wilson, Sha’Carri Richardson, Simone Biles, Flau’Jae Johnson, Coco Gauff, and Juju Watkins.
In a submit on X, Shields mentioned, “I don’t know the way I didn’t win the Sportswoman of the Yr for the BET Awards however congrats to Angel Reese and all the opposite nominees. I simply thought accolades mattered.”
As some extent of be aware, Shields is a 2-time Olympic champion and, in keeping with her X profile, a 17-time world champion and 4-time undisputed champ. Inarguably, she’s as dominant in her sport as an individual could be. Reese additionally has many accolades underneath her belt, together with each a 2023 NCAA girls’s basketball championship and that match’s “Most Excellent Participant” award, amongst a litany of different accomplishments throughout the faculty and, now, the WNBA world.
When people challenged Shields about Reese, certainly, additionally having accomplishments and accolades, Shields doubled down. Whereas acknowledging that Reese does have accolades, she pushed again.
“Sure she does however who has extra accolades? Extra success of their subject…,” she requested in a response submit.
After continued pushback and allegations that she was messy and a sore loser, Shields stored it actual.
“Ain’t no person saying Angel Reese don’t have accolades or she not good…I’m saying I believed the particular person with the “MOST” accolades & accomplishments would win the awards. I’m crew Angel Reese.”
Shields may be crew Angel Reese (many are) and having a public second of frustration. Perhaps she thought she was a shoo-in for the award, although one has to surprise if she would really feel the identical if Simone Biles or A’ja Wilson received. That, we’ll by no means know.
Hopefully, this doesn’t turn out to be a social media mess with a back-and-forth between the 2 girls. The world is healthier when Shields and Reese are simply two girls doing large issues of their respective fields, bigging each other up with out the additional sauce on it.
