Mikaela Mayer vs Sandy Ryan Picture Mikey Williams Prime Rank
Saturday evening – 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) through SD final September. The primary struggle had followers calling for a rematch.
The final struggle noticed a number of pre-fight taunting and unhealthy blood, creating much more curiosity within the rematch.
Earlier than the struggle, each ladies appeared locked in and assured of victory Saturday evening.
“I’m certain she feels that she’s going to cease me. I’m certain she felt that method within the final struggle when she was saying that I’m not really a welterweight”, mentioned Mayer. “I nonetheless despatched her to the hospital with a concussion. If I did that then after 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 mentioned. Confidence can get you solely to this point.
However in the primary occasion, they let their fists do the speaking.
Mayer took the offensive stance all through the struggle throwing exhausting punches to the pinnacle and physique. Ryan appeared 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 mixtures of Mayer. Each fighters landed some sturdy pictures within the 2nd half of the struggle, however as had been the case by way of 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 through 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, sport and hard, simply couldn’t match the ability set of the quicker and extra correct champion. A proper / left within the third was the end after touchdown many exhausting pictures 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 Probability (1-0) WUD 4 Miguel Guzman (1–1,1 KO)



















