Sandy Ryan: record, next fight and profile →
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.
As far as omens go, getting splashed with a can of red paint after leaving her hotel was hardly a good one for Sandy Ryan last night (September 27) in New York. She was just two and a half hours from fighting Mikaela Mayer in defence of her WBO women’s welterweight title and now suddenly she had an altogether different problem on her hands – and down her legs, and across her stomach. Now Ryan was trying to work out who had ambushed her outside her hotel and what it all meant.
Mikaela Mayer became a two-division world champion on Friday, winning the WBO welterweight title with a majority decision victory over Sandy Ryan in the main event at The Theater at Madison Square Garden in New York City.
Mikaela Mayer defeated Sandy Ryan by majority decision Friday at The Theater at Madison Square Garden in New York City.
After having been previously denied in split decisions in her only career defeats, Mikaela Mayer on Friday bested Sandy Ryan by majority decision at The Theater at Madison Square Garden in New York City.
Sandy Ryan was reportedly hit by a can of red paint en route to Friday’s fight with Mikaela Mayer in what ESPN described as an "apparent coordinated attack."
Mikaela Mayer’s ambition has her running toward challenges rather than from them. The decorated 2016 Rio Olympian and former world champion is 19-2 (5 KOs) and only wants big fights. On Friday night, she tops the bill at Madison Square Garden’s Theater in a grudge match with England’s in-form WBO champion Sandy Ryan.
I’m not above causing a little trouble. So after asking Rick Ramos if his wife, Jessica McCaskill, might get the itch to break off her retirement after watching this Friday’s bout between Sandy Ryan and Mikaela Mayer, he told me to repeat the question so she could hear it.
Tensions threatened to flare as WBO women’s welterweight champion Sandy Ryan and former junior lightweight titleholder Mikaela Mayer both successfully made weight, setting the stage for their clash Friday night at Madison Square Garden’s Theater.
Thirty-three-year-old Chordale Booker, currently ranked No. 8 by the WBO, continues to make an impact both in the ring and as a trainer.