Mikaela Mayer vs Sandy Ryan Photograph 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 battle had followers calling for a rematch.
The final battle noticed numerous pre-fight taunting and dangerous blood, creating much more curiosity within the rematch.
Earlier than the battle, each ladies appeared locked in and assured of victory Saturday evening.
“I’m positive she feels that she’s going to cease me. I’m positive she felt that method within the final battle 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 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 individual and fighter I’m”, she mentioned. 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 battle throwing exhausting punches to the top and physique. Ryan regarded to land counters, nevertheless 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 pictures within the 2nd half of the battle, however as had been the case by means of the battle, Mayer stayed busy in each spherical.
A reduce 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 gained the battle through UD 10 with scores of 97-93 x 2 and 98-92. Battle 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 robust Puerto Rican challenger Derrieck Cuevas (27-2- 1, 19 KOs). Cuevas, sport and difficult, simply couldn’t match the talent 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 Likelihood (1-0) WUD 4 Miguel Guzman (1–1,1 KO)
