At least one woman has accepted a former mixed martial arts fighter’s challenge to take on “the 10 toughest trans men” and she promised, “I’m specifically going to f*ck you up.”
Former UFC fighter Jake Shields, 44, hasn’t been shy about his defense of female athletes from woke ideologues pushing the trans agenda. To prove the point that girls and women shouldn’t be forced to compete against boys and men with gender dysphoria, Shields threw down the gauntlet in April with a public challenge since viewed more than 7 million times.
“Since trans men are real men I would like to challenge the 10 toughest trans men in the world to a fight,” he posted April 20.
“I fight them with no training camp and no rest between each fight,” Shields continued setting the basic parameters. “Let’s go, alphabet people get your 10 best and prove me wrong.”
Let's go, alphabet people get your 10 best and prove me wrong
— Jake Shields (@jakeshieldsajj) April 20, 2023
He would later go on to add former UFC fighter Mike Jackson to the challenge suggesting he would take on one man in addition to the 10 women, presumably first to wear himself out before the marathon contest.
Since posting the challenge, Shields had knocked the lack of response, but recently garnered one supposedly willing opponent in the form of controversial wrestler Mack Beggs, a biological female who has “transitioned.”
Taking to Instagram, 24-year-old Beggs, who was still wrestling girls during her high school career as she was taking testosterone, called out Shields with her own challenge for a one-on-one bout accusing his 11 opponent throwdown of being “disrespectful.”
“We just going to make this an official call out, but Jake Shields I will take you up on your offer. But the offer isn’t going to be 10 versus one and 10 trans men you’re going to be fighting for the rest of the night,” she said.
“You’re going to do a one-on-one type match. You’re going to do it right. If you’re going to call yourself a fighter do it f*cking right,” Beggs continued. “Like, that’s f*cking disrespectful. It’s disrespectful to the sport of MMA for you to just be like ‘oh yeah let me just call out 10 trans men and I’ll f*cking whoop them.'”
“I’m specifically going to f*ck you up Jake Shields,” the wrestler asserted.
In back-to-back years, Beggs had been permitted to compete against girls to win the Texas girls’ Class 6A 110-pound division title while attending Euless Trinity High School near Dallas, Texas. At the same time she was undergoing hormone injections and receiving doses of testosterone, likely giving her an edge over her peers when she entered the tournament with a 32-0 record.
Transgender boy wins girls’ state wrestling title for second consecutive year https://t.co/trEuNkzcdj pic.twitter.com/64Z9amUDQk
— BPR (@BIZPACReview) February 26, 2018
Though it is unclear what class Beggs would currently weigh in at, her high school weight would put in her in the strawweight division for men. That falls six weight classes below the 170-pound upper limit of welterweight that Shields won championships at and eight classes below the 185-pound upper limit for middleweight where he was also a champion.
That reality didn’t deter Beggs who went on, “And [to ask] if there even is any trans man fighters out there. And there is. The fact that everyone is like ‘oh yeah like trans women are f*cking up the fighting world.’ Hey, we still here too bro. We still here, we’ve always been here. It’s the fact that y’all are so fixated and hyper-fixated and have some f*cking fetish with trans women that you even forget that we f*cking out here and we going to f*ck you up.”
A date has yet to be set for any potential fight between Shields and Beggs, but the former appeared to remain insistent that he take on the 10 plus one he had set out on as she took to Twitter and reacted to the latter.
“My offer is legit so have they/them contact me and they can start putting their team together,” he wrote before joking, “Bud Light just contacted me an offered to sponsor all the trans athletes.”
He followed that up with a screenshot of Beggs’ claim she would “f*ck” him up and remarked, “This thing thinks it can beat me in a fight.”
Bud Light just contacted me and offered to sponsor all the trans athletes
— Jake Shields (@jakeshieldsajj) May 5, 2023
This thing thinks it can beat me In a fight ♂️ pic.twitter.com/D9o6gvi5B1
— Jake Shields (@jakeshieldsajj) May 5, 2023
Native of Brooklyn, NY, Kevin Haggerty is a graduate of Hunter College where he studied Cultural Anthropology and Geography. An avid reader and truth seeker, he currently resides in Texas with his wife and their dog and, when he isn't researching current events and their impacts, you'll find him spending time with friends and family or working on his next novel.
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