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.
More on the so-called “Paint-Gate” episode and what could come next. It is quite amazing that the story, the shocking story, of how a world champion, just hours ahead of a big fight at Madison Square Garden, being attacked by a paint-wielding fool, has not made far more headlines and has not generated far more fan response by way of comments (on this site for one) than is the case.
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.
Dalton Smith whipped up the crowd at the Sheffield Arena in Sheffield, England, with a surprising fifth-round one-punch body shot knockout over the former three-time world title challenger Jose Zepeda (37-5, 28 KOs) to win the vacant WBC silver light welterweight title on Saturday night on DAZN.
Dalton Smith (16-0, 12 KOs) knocked out Jose Zepeda (37-5, 28 KOs) in the fifth round to win the vacant WBC silver light welterweight title on Saturday night at the Sheffield Arena in Sheffield, England.