Claressa Shields had enough. The American boxer has come to the aid of Travis Hunter after the online hate left the NFL star devastated. It even pushed him to delete his Instagram handle to protect his girlfriend. While there has been no word about the decision, he could have done it to escape the negativity. The whole incident has left many fans and pros seething with anger and frustration, and ‘GWOAT’ is no different.

It all started when the fans tore apart Leanna Lenee for her behavior at the Heisman Trophy ceremony. The fans saw her stay seated while the whole crowd stood up and applauded Hunter as he collected the Heisman trophy. The situation didn’t change even when Deion Sanders, the Buffaloes head coach, nudged her. After that, Lenee gave Hunter a brief hug before taking her seat again. This drew a lot of flak from the hardcore fans, and the scathing criticism didn’t stop.

Shields, 29, took to her X handle and took the Buffaloes star’s side. She blasted the fans for meddling with the lovely couple’s life and even pushed Hunter to the brink of deleting his Instagram account. She wrote, “This why I go off on y’all and hurt yall feelings! Why tf are you y’all trolling TRAVIS HUNTER for! Leave him tf alone! If he love the girl let him love her! Always in other mfs business! He too nice to yall a**! Mind yall MF’N business! Done made him deactivate his damn Instagram!”

The two-time undisputed champion then issued a warning to the hate-spitting fans. She continued, “I hate anybody who said something to him! Everybody not cut for that sh*t! Go accomplish something instead of being mean to athletes and celebrities! Stg I wanna break yall damn fingers !”

Hunter himself had addressed the whole situation when he appeared in a Twitch stream and expressed his frustration. This was before he even decided to take a break from social media and keep himself and his fiancee away from the online hate.

Travis Hunter: telling the world the emotional turmoil Leanna Lenee going through

In the Twitch stream, the 21-year-old told his viewers that Lenee had slept after crying and resorting to drinking alcohol. He added how he didn’t want to disturb her sleep after all the troubles she was going through. He declared, “I know what I got. I know my girl. My girl’s been with me for five years. Y’all are just now starting to talk about me and just now starting to be with me. Come on, man.”

Lenee herself had tried to put up a defense for herself as she took on TikTok to share her side of the story. She said, “People are saying that I’m like, ‘What am I supposed to do? Just sit here?’ That’s not what I said, first of all.” She then detailed how fans were making wrong interpretations of a 7-second-long video. She also admitted she was taking pictures and talking to the fans. It might take a while for the two to escape the online windstorm.

What do you make of these comments by Claressa Shields about Travis Hunter? Do you agree with her? Let us know in the comments below.