Natasha Jonas (15-2-1, 9 KOs) held onto her IBF female welterweight title with a questionable ten round split decision victory over American Mikaela Mayer (19-2, 5 KOs) in a fight that easily could have gone the other way on Saturday night at the M&S Bank Arena in Liverpool, England.
TONIGHT at 2 p.m. ET/11 a.m. PT LIVE on ESPN+
More than just a belt is at stake heading into this equally matched fight at welterweight between Natasha Jonas and Mikaela Mayer.
Has there ever been a women’s fight that came close to matching the sheer ferocity of the epic Marvin Hagler-Thomas Hearns fight?
In the heart of Liverpool, hometown hero Natasha Jonas, the queen of the welterweight division, barely clung to her IBF crown in a nail-biter against the formidable Mikaela Mayer.
Smith-Eubank II, Mayer-Bortot and additional undercard bouts will stream live and exclusively in the U.S. on ESPN+ starting at 2 p.m.
In the last few years the rise of prospect turned legit contender Joe Joyce has been an interesting one for a variety of reasons.
In some ways, women’s boxing dominated 2022, with stars such as Katie Taylor and Claressa Shields engaging in genuinely huge, exciting fights that all fans tuned in to see.
Alycia Baumgardner (13-1, 7 KOs) is now one step closer to becoming undisputed champion after scoring a razor-thin split decision victory over Mikaela Mayer (17-1, 5 KOs) to unify the WBC, WBO, IBF and Ring Magazine junior lightweight titles Saturday evening at The O2 Arena.
Tonight at The O2 in London on the all-women’s card, Alycia Baumgardner scored a close, hugely debatable ten round decision over Mikaela Mayer in their 130 pound unification clash.
It was a tense affair at today’s official weigh-in for tomorrow’s all-female card in London. We know how much bad blood there is between Claressa Shields and Savannah Marshall, yet it’s very possible the level of dislike, the level of very real dislike, shared by Mikaela Mayer and Alycia Baumgardner has taken their grudge fight a notch or three higher on the grudge scale.