Jake Shields Explains Controversial Challenge to Fight Ten Transgender Men

Timothy James

June 13, 2023

Jake Shields issued a challenge to fight ten transgender men consecutively – and nobody has answered the call. Shields explained his challenge to Inside Fighting’s Andrew Capucetti, sharing his reasoning behind the bold declaration made on Twitter.

“None of them will accept it. I’ve offered $200k to try and make it happen, still no acceptors,” Shields stated. “As soon as we can find ten of them that will do it, I can do it. You would think the ten toughest trans men would want to fight me. The ten toughest trans women are fighting women!”

Since trans men are real men I would like to challenge the 10 toughest trans men in the world to a fight

I fight them with no training camp and no rest between each fight

— Jake Shields (@jakeshieldsajj) April 20, 2023

When asked what he was trying to prove with the challenge, Shields responded that he is “trying to point out the hypocrisy of trans women going and beating up women, saying they’re real women … I’ll literally fight the ten toughest trans men in the world and I’ll smoke them all … the fact that none of them will step up and fight me kind of proves my point.”