Mikaela Mayer vs Sandy Ryan Picture Mikey Williams High Rank
Saturday evening – two-weight champ Mikaela Mayer defended her WBO welterweight world title in opposition to 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 combat had followers calling for a rematch.
The final combat noticed plenty of pre-fight taunting and dangerous blood, creating much more curiosity within the rematch.
Earlier than the combat, each women appeared locked in and assured of victory Saturday evening.
“I’m certain she feels that she is going to cease me. I’m certain she felt that manner within the final combat when she was saying that I’m not actually 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 instances 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 individuals see what sort of particular person and fighter I’m”, she mentioned. Confidence can get you solely to date.
However in the principle occasion, they let their fists do the speaking.
Mayer took the offensive stance all through the combat throwing exhausting punches to the pinnacle and physique. Ryan appeared to land counters, however it by no means deterred champion Mayer, who continued to press. Ryan was nothing if not robust however she merely couldn’t sustain with the continuous mixtures of Mayer. Each fighters landed some robust photographs within the 2nd half of the combat, however as had been the case by means of the combat, 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. In the long run, a busier Mayer gained the combat 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 in opposition to robust Puerto Rican challenger Derrieck Cuevas (27-2- 1, 19 KOs). Cuevas, sport 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 exhausting 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 Probability (1-0) WUD 4 Miguel Guzman (1–1,1 KO)
