In an anticlimactic rematch, the hulking WBO welterweight champion Mikaela Mayer (21-2-1, 5 KOs) defeated Sandy Ryan (7-3-1, 3 KOs) by a 10-round unanimous decision in their rematch at the Fontainebleau Las Vegas.
Irish boxing royalty Katie Taylor isn’t picking sides in tonight’s welterweight scrap between Mikaela Mayer and Sandy Ryan — but she is expecting fireworks.
Tonight, a pair of rematches headline cards on live on DAZN and ESPN. William Zepeda aims to make an improvement on his performance against a wily old vet in Tevin Farmer.
WBO welterweight champion Brian Norman Jr. (26-0, 20 KOs) and challenger Derrieck Cuevas (27-1-1, 19 KOs) made weight today for their chief support bout on Saturday, March 29th, with the event starting at 7 p.m.
Rewind to September 27th of last year, and Mikaela Mayer and Sandy Ryan gave us a great action fight that contested the women’s WBO welterweight title held by Ryan.
Though last night’s fight between bitter female rivals Mikaela Mayer and Sandy Ryan was a very good one, the fight that saw Mayer take the WBO welterweight title from Ryan via majority decision was full of action and drama, the big talking point immediately prior to the fight, as well as after it, focused on the quite shocking paint attack Ryan was the victim of in New York.
Mikaela Mayer (20-2, 5 KOs) defeated WBO female welterweight champion Sandy Ryan (7-2-1, 3 KOs) by a 10-round majority decision in a fight that appeared razor-close on Friday night at The Theater at Madison Square Garden in New York.
Queen Latifah’s classic song ‘Ladies first’ is a great way to explain the surge woman’s boxing has received in the last few years.
Trainer Joe Gallagher is up in arms over the controversy from his fighter, IBF female welterweight champion Natasha Jonas, winning what many fans felt was a classic example of a hometown decision, defeating visiting fighter Mikaela Mayer last Saturday night at the M&S Bank Arena in Liverpool, England.
First things first. It was a great fight last night in Liverpool, this as reigning and defending women’s IBF welterweight champion Natasha Jonas, 15-2-1(9) slugged it out with former super-featherweight champ Mikaela Mayer, 19-2(5) over ten at times blistering sessions.