By: Sean Crose “My hands have never hurt so bad after a fight,” Mikaela Mayer said Friday night after winning the WBO welterweight title off of Sandy Ryan in a high octane throwdown. Indeed, the fight was a banger. Mayer proved faster and more mobile early on, only to find herself getting tagged by defending
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Sandy Ryan’s promoter Eddie Hearn said the New York Police Department has launched an investigation into the former WBO welterweight champion getting splashed with red paint as she left her hotel to defend her belt against Mikaela Mayer at Madison Square Garden Friday night. Hearn said police have secured the closed-circuit security footage of the
By Daniele D’Alessio BEING a professional boxer without a long-term deal with a big-time promoter is often a struggle. Unless you won a medal at the Olympic Games or had a stellar amateur career, the chances of signing such a contract are slim. So, the majority have no choice but to work their way up
Mikaela Mayer took the WBO welterweight title from Sandy Ryan in a fantastic action main event tonight in New York, winning the belt on majority decision scores over 10 rounds. One card came back even at 95-95, with Mayer taking the other two on scores of 96-94 and 97-93. Bad Left Hook unofficially scored the
By Joe Hughes WHAT a win for Daniel Dubois last weekend vs Anthony Joshua. Many picked Dubois to lose the fight, myself included, but he was dominant from the first round until the finish in the fifth. He puts himself near the top of the division as the IBF world champion and with a win
Maxi Hughes got back to winning ways on Friday night but had to work hard for his victory. Hughes lost a world title eliminator to William Zepeda in March and hasn’t boxed since. Without a date and desperate to stop the rust from accumulating, Hughes, 34, asked GBM’s Izzy Asif for a slot on Friday
Brett Okamoto, ESPN Staff WriterSep 28, 2024, 12:07 AM ET Close MMA columnist for ESPN.com Analyst for “MMA Live” Covered MMA for Las Vegas Sun Open Extended Reactions English boxer Sandy Ryan accused Mikaela Mayer, her opponent in a title bout Friday night in New York, of orchestrating a pre-fight stunt in which Ryan was
By: Sean Crose It was without doubt a world class beatdown. The popular but not stellar Ryan Garcia thoroughly thrashed the highly skilled and lauded Devin Haney last spring in a pay per view upset that sent the boxing world reeling. Then word came of Garcia having the banned substance ostarine in his system around the
Former middleweight world champion Gennadiy Golovkin has officially joined World Boxing’s push to keep the sport in the Olympics for 2028 in Los Angeles, as he has been named to chair an “Olympic commision” with World Boxing, the organization seeking to gain International Olympic Committe (IOC) recognition. Boxing is currently up in the air the
In a past life Terri Harper used to work in a chip shop. Sensing that women’s boxing was about to explode in popularity, she turned professional, moved quickly and won a world title in her 10th fight. Before she became a world champion, Rhiannon Dixon was a pharmacist. A white collar fighter, she saw the
By Dan Morley WITH the dust beginning to settle on last weekend’s huge fight between Anthony Joshua and Daniel Dubois, it is worth taking a step back and looking at just how unpredictable this heavyweight landscape has turned out to be in recent years. Whilst the fight wasn’t the Hagler-Hearns type of war a few
Mike Coppinger, ESPN Boxing InsiderSep 27, 2024, 01:55 PM ET Close Mike Coppinger has covered boxing since 2010 with roles at USA Today, Ring Magazine and The Athletic before he joined ESPN in 2021. You can follow him on Twitter: @MikeCoppinger Open Extended Reactions Devin Haney filed a lawsuit against Ryan Garcia on Friday in
Featherweight Bruce Carrington is not underestimating Sulaiman Segawa ahead of his televised fight on Friday, which is part of the ESPN card from Madison Square Garden Theater. Carrington will face Segawa in a 10-round bout, marking his fourth scheduled 10-round fight. The 27-year-old New York native Carrington, who trains in Las Vegas, has finished all
23:27:09It’s all over That concludes our coverage of this evening’s European bantamweight showdown at York Hall – and we have a new champion. Charlie Edwards, take a bow. 23:25:59Big in Japan Charlie Edwards speaks after winning the European bantamweight title. He said: “Thomas is a tricky operator and I already knew that coming into this.
The women are taking center stage in boxing this week, and we’ve got two world title fights tonight that we’ll be watching, and you can watch along and shoot the breeze with us! Over on ESPN and ESPN+, Sandy Ryan will defend her WBO welterweight title against Mikaela Mayer in a main event from New
RHIANNON Dixon continues her world-class journey by making a maiden WBO lightweight title defence against Terri Harper in Sheffield’s Park Community Arena. Dixon is a strong favourite at 1/4 to get the job done. At 10-0 (1 KO), Dixon is more boxer than banger, with the one stoppage coming against Vicky Wilkinson in 2023. Harper
The heavyweight division has always been the land of opportunity but there has never been a better time to be a young, talented big man. And, although he seems to have been around for years, at 30 years old, Hughie Fury remains young in heavyweight terms. Fury, 28-3 (16 KOs), boxes Germany’s Christian Thun, 9-1
The biggest matchup in boxing’s smallest division is less than two months away, as WBO minimumweight Oscar Collazo confirms Jake Donovan’s report that he’ll face long-reigning WBA titlist Knockout CP Freshmart as part of Riyadh Season’s November 16th GIlberto Ramirez vs Chris BIllam-Smith show. Collazo (10-0, 7 KO), Puerto Rico’s lone male reigning champion, has
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