.Brett Okamoto, ESPN Personnel WriterSep 28, 2024, 12:07 AM ETCloseMMA writer for ESPN.com.Professional for “Mixed Martial Arts Live”.Dealt With MMA for Las Vegas SunEnglish pugilist Sandy Ryan indicted Mikaela Mayer, her enemy in a name fight Friday night in The big apple, of setting up a pre-fight feat through which Ryan was actually struck by a paint can easily as she left her hotels and resort earlier in the evening.Ryan (7-2-1, 3 KOs) shed her WBO welterweight name to Mayer (20-2, 5 KOs) through majority decision, along with the judges scoring the match 95-95, 97-93 and also 96-94. The leadup to the battle at Madison Square Yard was actually heavily personal for both, as Ryan had actually been actually working with Mayer’s previous longtime instructor Kay Koroma. Mayer parted ways with Koroma when he made a decision to work with Ryan, a technique she considered a betrayal.Editor’s PicksAs Ryan left her hotel for the location Friday, she was hit by an open coating can easily from an unknown man.
She mentioned she really felt something “smash” into her stomach, and after that saw a male in a hoodie run to an auto and repel. Ryan was actually unimpaired as well as continued on to the location after modifying clothing in her hotels and resort room.She and also her crew said to ESPN they believed it was a member of Mayer’s camping ground, a complaint Mayer has actually refuted.” Mikaela Mayer is actually going to receive it,” Ryan mentioned prior to the battle. “It was actually definitely a create coming from her crew.
What else will it be actually? It is actually got to be actually. I’m from the U.K.
That understood what time I was showing up of my resort to go to the venue?” Mayer, of Colorado Springs, Colorado, rebounded from a split selection reduction to Natasha Jones in January. Ryan was actually searching for her second gain this year.