In less than a year, Mikael Mayer and Sandy Ryan perhaps developed the most cruel and fierce competition in the history of women’s boxing. The insults threw themselves at this and back both before and after their fight in September last year, and the decisive decision of the judges in this fight led us to the Saturday rematch in Fontainebleau Las Vegas.

And don’t forget that Ryan suffered an attack on his way to Madison Square Garden for the first fight. Leaving her hotel in Fresh York, a can of red paint through someone on the street hit her. Ryan blamed Mayer and her team, which they denied.

There is also a problem of trainers. “Coach Kay” – Kay Koroma, who, for most of her career, trained by most of her career, went to coach Ryan to fight Mayer and will be in Ryan’s Corner again this weekend.

Mayer (20-2, 5 KO), a 34-year-old American, will be the first time to defend the WBO semi-edited weight title after the first fight ended when she made the decision on the majority (95-95, 97-93, 96-94) over Ryan (7-2-1, 3 KO), 31 and England. Here’s how we came to this moment in Ropienia.

January 24, 2024: Mayer, from Colorado, but based in Las Vegas, debuts in a welterweight, but loses a divided decision for Natasha Jonas in Liverpool, England. Mayer calls on an immediate rematch.

Mayer, who prevailed as a united junior featherlight champion for two years, until she was beaten by Alycia Baumgardner in 2022, does not get a rematch, but her mighty performance after increasing the weight to face Jonas, places her on the radars of other leading wooden wispas.

March 24, 2024: Ryan from Derby puts himself on a collision course with Mayer, defending her WBO -two -edge scale title with an excellent four -shaped victory over Terri Harper. Ryan’s best win in his career as one of the leading characters in welterweight.

Then Ryan calls Jonas and Chantelle Cameron, her English rivals, but they have other plans. Ryan wants a well -known name, but who is available? Competition with Mayer is bored behind the scenes and is going to explode.

June 26, 2024: Mayer claims in social media that Ryan has rejected the offer to fight her. Ryan responds in social media: “I will fight you at any time and every day of the week the queen of the drama. But when the offer was terrible to me, that I would defend my belt and nothing else comes to you through my team.”

A bad feeling emanates Ryan’s move to train with trainers who worked with Mayer. Ryan started working with coaches Kay Koroma and Flick Savoy after her draw with Jessica McCaskill in September 2023, and this upset Mayer. The American has trained with Koroma for eight years and felt that there was a conflict of interests since she wanted to go to a welterweight. So Mayer left Koroma to train with Kofi Yantuah after her defeat with Jonas. A few weeks after online exchange Ryan vs. Mayer is announced on September 27.

Fighting words from the stars

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– top -ranking boxer (@Trboxing) September 26, 2024

September 26, 2024: During the Fight Week, the surname Koroma inevitably appears malicious exchanges at media events.

Mayer: “You knew I came to 147 pounds, why should you move to America and start training under my team? It doesn’t make sense.”

Ryan calls Mayer a “cheesy woman” after a meeting in which Mayer raised the middle finger.

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Sandy Ryan accuses someone from the band Mikael Mayer in a painting attack

Sandy Ryan explains why he thinks that someone from the opponent’s team Mikaeli Mayer threw a red paint at her.

September 27, 2024: Before arriving in Madison Square Garden to fight, Ryan feels siege. When he leaves his hotel in Fresh York, Ryan is hit with a can of paint, leaving her splashed in red.

Emotional and shocked Ryan sits with Marek Kriegel ESPN after arriving at the garden and says: “I left the hotel room to meet my band down, and there were cars waiting for us to enter and I was to get into the car when something crashed in my stomach.

“When I looked down, it was a can of paint. He looked up and a hooded guy, he ran, jumped into the car and drove away. He would hit and run.”

Ryan thinks he knows who is behind the attack. “Mikael Mayer definitely gets it,” says ESPN. “This is definitely a configuration of her team. Who knew what time I was going out [of] hotel? I kept peaceful throughout the week, and they are still trying to ruin my way of thinking. “

Later in the evening, the fight itself is brilliant, tenacious scrap. Both warriors have good moments. In the opening round, Mayer shakes Ryan with a huge right hand. Round 3 is intensively canceled from the fingers. During the fight, Mayer lands keen combinations and Ryan weighty left hooks. Mayer has a greater success in the 10 round, and her combinations and a mighty finish may make a difference on results cards. According to Compubox statistics, Mayer will land 41% of its power strokes compared to 37% Ryan. But the history of the fight applies to what happened before they got to the ring, like playing 10 rounds.

September 30, 2024: Ryan releases the statement that the paint attack was not the only thing she had to fight on the day of the fight.

“Of course, the painting attack received a lot of coverage, but I was also subjected to a disgusting and pathetic smear campaign on the day of the fight, in which hundreds of leaflets containing my image and defamating the text were widespread and placed on the streets surrounding my hotel and Madison Square Garden both before and after the fight,” Ryan wrote.

“ESPN won two rounds [ESPN’s Kriegel scored it 96-94 in favor of Ryan] I know that many other respected boxing observers also won the fight. In the featherlight of everything that happened, I think that an immediate rematch should be ordered.

“Boxing deserves much more than this type of bandit.”

Agent Mayra, George Ruiz, denies the claim This Mayer’s team was behind him, addressing Ryan directly: “Let me explain: no one associated with Team Mayer had nothing to do with the attack on you or leaflets and alive anonymous unsafe messages that, as you say, you have received.”

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– Sandy Ryan (@Sandyrian93) December 28, 2024

December 28, 2024: Ryan releases material from CCTV from the painting attack on its social media channel.

The film shows an unidentified person leaving the SUV driver’s seat parked in front of the hotel and slowly going towards Ryan, carrying the object in his right hand, and then throwing this object in Ryan from escaping to the car.

January 30, 2025: The rematch has been announced, and Ryan claims that this time it will be a different fight. “After what happened before the fight last time, I fought angrily and it clearly influenced my performance,” he says.

February 5, 2025: The quarrel continues “The Ariel Helwani Show. “” You don’t like me, because I called you on your s — “Mayer says.” You came to my country and tried to train with my team, even sent me a letter with information: “I’m sorry” … “

Ryan says again that she achieved worse results in the first fight because she was affected by the attack before Congress.

“He thinks I’m mentally broken, mentally frail and so on,” said Ryan.

“We’ll see who will be broken one after this fight. I believe that this time I will stop him. I did not sit on my shot because I fought for emotions and anger. Let’s see if he can make shots when I connect this time.”

February 16, 2025: Mayer suggests that it could have been The fan who carried out the painting attack.

He says in Great Britain Talksport: “The rumor is that Sandy is not a very nice person in his hometown, so he is probably on my turf, trying to find a band because he can’t find one house. Maybe it was someone who just despises Sandy. … It may be very straightforward to be a fan.”

March 9, 2025: Despite the controversy around Ryan’s first fight and her intensive competition with England, Mayer is called British Boxing Board of Control’s Foreign boxer of the year.

Juan Manuel Marquez predicts that Teofimo Lopez vs. Arnold Barboz Jr. “Steal the program” During May 2, “Fatal Fury” at Times Square, Up-to-date York live in Dazn.

Show Crayer?

For this fight to be the best match on the card, Teofimo must force Pure Boxer Barboza Jr. (32-0, 11 KO) to the fight, because the southern California will probably try to survive its way to victory. Barbozy JR style is not for war with his opponents, especially in the face of huge power guys such as Teofimo.

Fight for the division into fatal fury

• Ryan Garcia vs. Rolando “Rolly” Romero: Headliner
• Devin Haney vs. Jose Ramirez: factor
• Teofimo Lopez vs. Arnold Barboza JR: The first fight of the night

Retired great boxing, Marquez, perceives the clash between the WBO Teofimo (21-1, 13 KO) Facilitate. (32-0.11 KO) as a great duel.

“I love this fight. Teofimo Lopez vs. Arnold Barboza can steal the program at night,” said Juan Manuel Marquez Fight Hub tvSpeaking of a clash between the WBO Featherlight Welter Welter Intraters Teofimo and the mandatory Barboza Jr., which is the best fight from the fatal Fury event on May 2 at Times Square, Up-to-date York. “It’s a great fight, but I think that experience is about Teofimo Lopez.”

Teofimo strategy

This is a good fight between Teo and Barboza JR, but it probably will not be the best fight of the night or even the second. Barboz Jr. He is too much a boxer for this clash to steal the program. In order for this to be an stimulating start, Teofimo must force Arnold to exchange and make him come out of a standard pure defensive crust.

The best way to make Lopez hurry with Barboza JR, will remain close and unload inside. If Teofimo da Barboza Jr in any room, he will stab and move all night to win a tedious decision.

Kingry’s return fight with the former WBA Romero (16-2, 13 KO) champion is to be a fire brigade, because they are both huge punchers who win, winning tempting.

Vladimir Klitschko turned 49 this week, just a few days after the legendary heavyweight george Foreman.

Reigning the longest [sanctioning body] World Heavyweight Champion can always break George’s “Massive” record. At the end of last year, the rumors about the return of Klitschko were common when the head of the Riyjad Turki season Alalshikh swore to enter and facilitate Ukrainian get a shot in defeating Benchmark Foreman.

Foreman won the highest division crown at 45, twenty years after he lost the world heavyweight title with Muhammad Ali. Texan created a seemingly indisputable record, which Klitschko considered a challenge.

Vladimir Klitschko eyes the oldest feat

In 2019, Klitschko mentioned his ambitions two years after he withdrew from boxing after a knockout technical defeat with Anthony Joshua at the Wembley stadium in England.

“I train regularly. Almost every day,” Klitschko said Fox Sports’s Fair Game. “I need it like breathing air, but I like to play sports.

“I still have it, but I don’t know how long I can keep this form. It must be something unusual. Amazing. But if I can become a 45-year-old, 46-year-old, and if I still have it.

“If I still had sparks in my stomach, I would think that I could beat the album and become the oldest heavyweight champion at this extraordinary moment.

“I mean that now there is only one guy, George Foreman. But by that time I will think about it.”

Breaking the George Foreman record

Pandemic and Russian war suspended these plans by 2022, when Kliczko turned 46 and qualified for achievement. Three years later, Klitschko is not closer to securing the ranking needed to compete for heavyweight belts.

“Dr. Steelhammer” lost the last two fights and has not been working for eight years. Each body sanctioning even thinking about the release of almost a 50-year-old cracks in the title would have to follow the rules.

Kliczko would have to win at least one balmy -up match before he questioned the title of IBF, WBA, WBO or WBC.

Even then it is not that straightforward. Sanctioning bodies have mandatory pretenders whom Klitschko cannot remove the finger click.

Agit Kabayel is a short-lived WBC line, and Joseph Parker has a short-lived WBO title. At the same time, Derek Chisora ​​was named IBF in force with the World Boxing Association [WBA] Having Kubrat Pulev as a secondary owner of titles and Fabio Wardley as a claimant.

The weight class is a mess, and Daniel Dubois was handed out with an IBF belt without heading to a real master, Oleksandr Usyk.

Even in the face of Usyk in Ukraine, it is beyond the table, because the couple is forceful friends, and the situation in their native country remains too uncertain. Brother Kliczko, Vitali, the mayor of Kiev, has already outlined that boxing in this country is impossible.

Vladimir Klitschko and Usyk have always fought in Germany or Saudi Arabia, taking into account a special dispensation for a special one -off event.

However, legends do not seem to fight too much.

This only leaves Dubois, which can potentially be the one who will give Kliczko a chance. The winner will then face Derek Chisora ​​in the second of the two international boxing federations [IBF] Fighting later this year.

If this scenario occurs, an advertisement should be announced in the next four weeks.

The gift must be rejected

Foreman’s record has survived time for over twenty years, and many in sport think that they deserve to be supported, unless someone fully earns him, which Klitschko does not have.

The deceased foreman returned to sport in 1987 and fought almost 30 times to get a crack at Michael Moorer in Las Vegas. His longest spell at that time was 19 months.

Klitschko is outside of eight years of this April and he would only have the opportunity thanks to a gift that he would have to reject to avoid the anger of boxing and media fans.

It would be a black eye of Foreman if any boxer, legendary or not, received his leg to challenge his extraordinary feat.

Meanwhile, the three -time heavyweight champion and the winner of the Golden Olympic medal paid their own tribute to Foreman after hearing his gloomy passage on Friday.

“Massive George” leaves a great void in a world boxing family and more, “said Klitschko.” He jumped all the values ​​that make “sweet science” so unique.

“He wrote our most attractive pages and a great album. We will never forget him. Condolences for his family, friends and fans. Rip Champ.”

Such as George Foreman will never be noticeable again.