Mikaela Mayer vs Sandy Ryan Picture Mikey Williams High Rank
Saturday night time – two-weight champ Mikaela Mayer defended her WBO welterweight world title towards former champion Sandy Ryan within the BleauLive Theater on the Fontainebleau in Las Vegas.
Mayer (21-2, 5 KOs) beat Ryan (7-3-1, 3 KOs) by way of SD final September. The primary struggle had followers calling for a rematch.
The final struggle noticed plenty of pre-fight taunting and unhealthy blood, creating much more curiosity within the rematch.
Earlier than the struggle, each women appeared locked in and assured of victory Saturday night time.
“I’m certain she feels that she’s going to cease me. I’m certain she felt that manner within the final struggle when she was saying that I’m not really a welterweight”, stated Mayer. “I nonetheless despatched her to the hospital with a concussion. If I did that then once I was new to welterweight, then I’m going to harm her 10 occasions extra this time round”, she predicted.
Britain’s Ryan appeared simply as assured, “I’ll be taking that belt again. I do know that I’m a fighter. I let folks see what sort of particular person and fighter I’m”, she stated. Confidence can get you solely thus far.
However in the primary occasion, they let their fists do the speaking.
Mayer took the offensive stance all through the struggle throwing laborious punches to the pinnacle and physique. Ryan seemed to land counters, nevertheless it by no means deterred champion Mayer, who continued to press. Ryan was nothing if not powerful however she merely couldn’t sustain with the continuous combos of Mayer. Each fighters landed some robust photographs within the 2nd half of the struggle, however as had been the case via the struggle, Mayer stayed busy in each spherical.
A minimize within the nook of Mayer’s left eye was a goal for Ryan within the final 2 rounds, however Mayer weathered the storm. Each fighters left nothing within the tank and it was bombs away within the final spherical. Ultimately, a busier Mayer received the struggle by way of UD 10 with scores of 97-93 x 2 and 98-92. Struggle followers would welcome a third go.
WBO world welterweight title – Within the co-feature, Brian Norman Jr. (27- 0, 21 KOs) was making the primary defence of his WBO welterweight world championship towards powerful Puerto Rican challenger Derrieck Cuevas (27-2- 1, 19 KOs). Cuevas, recreation and hard, simply couldn’t match the talent set of the sooner and extra correct champion. A proper / left within the third was the end after touchdown many laborious photographs within the first 2 rounds.Norman TKO 3.
Beneath Card
Featherweight WBC Eliminator Bruce Carrington (15-0, 9 KOs) TKO 3 Jose Enrique Vivas (23-4, 12 KOs)
Junior welterweight Emiliano Vargas (13-0, 11 KOs) KO2 Giovannie Gonzalez (20-8-2, 15 KOs)
Welterweight Tiger Johnson (15-0, 7 KOs) TKO 5 Kendo Castaneda (21-9, 9 KOs)
Junior light-weight Dedrick Crocklem (2-0, 2 KOs) TKO 1 Dionne Ruvalcaba (2-2, 1 KOs)
Bantamweight Emanuel Likelihood (1-0) WUD 4 Miguel Guzman (1–1,1 KO)
