Claressa Shields has reached a precarious position in her decorated career.

As she toils in MMA and searches for the perfect dance partner for meaningful boxing matchups, the belle of the ball could be Alycia Baumgardner.

But the proposition is a weighty issue.

Shields (15-0, 3 KOs) is currently campaigning as a heavyweight, and she’ll fight again as a 175-pounder against Danielle Perkins (5-0, 2 KOs) Sunday evening at the Dort Financial Center in Flint, Michigan live on DAZN.

Baumgardner (15-1, 7 KOs) is the undisputed junior lightweight champion and has predominantly fought at 130 pounds throughout her career.

Shields and Baumgardner dialed up their brewing beef last year, building up a potential superfight with a viral confrontation on DAZN's April 20 broadcast of Richardson Hitchins' UD12 IBF title eliminator win over Gustavo Lemos. However, a disinterested Shields has apparently pulled the plug on the potential pitting.

“We have not been going back and forth,” Shields told The Ring. “She's a non-factor in my life. She's not even someone who I would consider to fight. I fight 154, 160, or 168. She's never fought at 140 or 147.”

Before her clash against Delfine Persoon in September, which resulted in a no contest, Baumgardner shared that the framework was once there for a fight against Shields.

“I agreed to fight Claressa at 147 pounds,” said Baumgardner. “She agreed to it. There is proof that she said this. Claressa is at a stage of her life where she wants things to be easier for her. That's why she moved up to heavyweight. Good for her. We can fight at 147, like I stated. If she don't want it, she don't want it. Competition is at the 130-to-147 range, and that's where I plan to reign at. Right now, it doesn't make sense to go up to 154 pounds. You have to be smart about these things each time you move up a weight class. I'm not going to jump into something if it doesn't make sense.

“She's my size, and I am bigger. As a fighter, we're competitors. I don't see anyone as a threat.’ You see the sweet science in my fights. The jab, power, right hand, combinations. I put it together way better. It's a better package with me.

“For me, fighting Claressa was about the money, but it got personal. Because it got personal, as a smart businesswoman, you would think she would be like 'This is great,' but it has not been the case.”

A bout between “The Bomb” Baumgardner and “T-Rex” Shields, who just had her biopic The Fire Inside debut in theaters in December, would certainly be a marketable slugfest and land on the shortlist for one of the few superfights that can be made in women’s boxing this year.

The four-division champion and two-time Olympic gold medalist Shields, 29, is born and bred in Flint, Michigan. Baumgardner, 30, is from Detroit.