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BBC News
4 days ago
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Ryan considered retirement after losses to Mayer
Derby's Sandy Ryan says she considered retiring from boxing after successive defeats by Mikaela 31, lost her WBO welterweight world title to Mayer in controversial circumstances last September before being beaten in the rematch in two emotionally and physically draining encounters in the US, Ryan admitted she was devastated with her performance."Mid-fight I fell asleep as in stopped reacting, stopped doing what I normally do," Ryan told BBC Radio Derby."I remember being in the corner and my brother and [coach] Kay were like 'what's wrong?' I was in my own world. I just can't explain it."It's not the best place to be in one of the biggest fight of your career.""After the fight, I thought I was done," she added."I was finished boxing. And then a few weeks after, I had been back home for a while and after a few weeks the fight was still in me. I still have so much to give."Ryan's first encounter with Mayer was marred by an unknown person throwing paint over the Englishwoman as she was leaving her hotel on fight described the scorecards in the first fight as "questionable" but had no complaints about the rematch, which was a unanimous points win for the said camp was "mentally" tough and she suspects she carried a lot of the effects of their first dramatic fight into the rematch."I tried to not bring it with me, but in the back of my head it was always there," she said."I tried to be too relaxed and not be as aggressive or have that fire. But maybe when I look back, maybe I was too relaxed and not reacting to certain things which kind of made me a bit more calm."In the fight game, yeah it's good to be calm but I am an aggressive fighter and I needed that."I'm giving this another shot so I need to get that fight and anger back in me, balance it out." Cyborg - What next for Ryan? Ryan says she expects to make her return to the ring in August in the United Kingdom, with her management currently searching for an Cyborg, a former UFC and PFL world champion in MMA, is one name being mentioned and Ryan asked her team to explore the possibility of making that Brazilian has a 5-0 record in professional boxing, with her most recent bout in May."Her profile is big," Ryan said of Cyborg. "I saw she was calling out Claressa Shields, which is just crazy."It would be great - I'd be happy if they made that fight. She seems very confident, but it's boxing, she wouldn't beat me."Despite her interest in Cyborg, Ryan says it is more likely she will have a tune-up fight."I know potentially my next fight won't be a big fight. I am coming off a loss so I have to build myself up," she said.
Yahoo
28-03-2025
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Mikaela Mayer vs. Sandy Ryan: How to watch Top Rank boxing match, full fight card and more
If you buy something through a link in this article, we may earn commission. Pricing and availability subject to change. Mikaela Mayer vs. Sandy Ryan: How to watch Top Rank boxing match, full fight card and more Mikaela Mayer and Sandy Ryan will meet in the ring for the second time this Saturday, here's how to watch their rematch. () (Sarah Stier via Getty Images) Current WBO welterweight champion Mikaela Mayer (20-2, 5 KOs) will defend her title in a rematch against former champ Sandy Ryan (7-2-1, 3 KOs) in a Top Rank boxing match this Saturday, Mar. 29. The bout will take place at the BleauLive Theater at Fontainebleau in Las Vegas, Nevada. The two fighters previously met last September in a contentious match that Mayer won in a majority decision, making her a two-division world champion, and tension between the two has lingered ever since. Also at the top of the fight card this weekend, Brian Norman Jr. will be defending his WBO welterweight world championship against Derrieck Cuevas. Prelims will be available on ESPN+ starting at 8 p.m. ET, and the main fight begins at 11 p.m. ET on ESPN+, ESPN, and ESPN Deportes. Here's everything you need to know about how to watch the Mayer vs. Ryan fight, including the full fight card and how you can stream every match. How to watch the Mikaela Mayer vs. Sandy Ryan fight: Date: Saturday, March 29 Advertisement Start time: 7:00 pm ET Fight time (approximate): main card ringwalks at approx. 10:00 pm ET Location: BleauLive Theater at Fontainebleau, Las Vegas, NV TV channel/streaming: ESPN+ (Prelims and main fight card), ESPN, ESPN Deportes (Main fight card) When is the Mikaela Mayer vs. Sandy Ryan fight? Mikaela Mayer will fight Sandy Ryan for the second time this Saturday, Mar. 29 at the at the BleauLive Theater at Fontainebleau in Las Vegas. What channel is the Mayer vs. Ryan fight on? Mikaela Mayer vs. Sandy Ryan will be available on ESPN, ESPN Deportes, and it will stream on ESPN+. You can also catch prelims starting at 8 p.m. on ESPN+. Where to watch the Mikaela Mayer vs. Sandy Ryan fight: Mikaela Mayer vs. Sandy Ryan 2 fight card Mikaela Mayer vs. Sandy Ryan ; Welterweight, for the WBO female title Brian Norman Jr. vs. Derrieck Cuevas ; Welterweight, for the WBO title Bruce Carrington vs. Jose Enrique Vivas ; Featherweight Emiliano Vargas vs. Giovannie Gonzalez ; Light welterweight Troy Isley vs. Etoundi William ; Middleweight Delante Johnson vs. Kendo Castaneda ; Welterweight Dedrick Crocklem vs. Dionne Ruvalcaba; Light welterweight Other ways to watch the Mikaela Mayer vs. Sandy Ryan fight:
BBC News
28-03-2025
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'It felt like a movie' - Ryan relives paint attack
Following Mikaela Mayer's column yesterday, former world champion Sandy Ryan tells her side of 'paint-gate' before their fight last September in New Derby boxer faces WBO welterweight champion Mayer in a Las Vegas rematch on Saturday after her previous loss to the American at Madison Square Garden. I was heading to the venue as usual on a fight night, meeting my team in reception and getting ready to go to the venue. Suddenly, I got hit with a can of paint and when I looked up there was a guy running back to his car. You could call it a hit and was three hours before the fight took place - it wasn't the usual fight night.I didn't see the person coming. I looked down, saw red. It was a bit of a shock at the around me must have been in shock because no-one chased him. It would have been a lot different if my brother Dave was there - and he will be there on Saturday.I didn't see anything suspicious but there were two people from Mikaela's team lingering around the bar and at reception when we were coming down to the didn't think anything of it at the time, though, because we were all staying in the same hotel.I went back up to my room to change and shower and then I had a security guard with me when we got back to the car to go to the started to feel like a movie because the security guard was on his phone saying, 'I've got Sandy Ryan in the car, we'll be arriving in three minutes. Have all the doors ready'.When he got off the phone he said to me, 'don't get out of the car, I'll open your door and I want you to stay on my left shoulder to walk into the venue'. 'I am past all that now' When I got to the changing room I went into fight mode and I was ready. I just knew I had to get on with it.I don't have any regrets about still fighting. I also understand where my coach, Kay, was coming from and why he wanted to pull me out. I respect his opinion but I'm a fighter so there was nothing that anyone could say to stop me. I was already so angry at the time. I was ready to fight three hours before it even took you speak to any fighter they aren't going to be doing any madness three hours before a bout. You're trying to chill, trying to get your mind right and thinking of the fight. You have all your schedule in place and any little disturbance will have an impact. Having paint thrown all over me is another thing. But I am past all that now. The difference this time will be me winning and holding that belt at the end of the fight. I just know that a calm mind, calm heart and relaxed Sandy will beat losing, I just wanted to go straight back in for the rematch. I know I can beat Mikaela. 'Let's go to England for a third fight' People are always going to talk about this rivalry and that's a good thing. It has got us to a point where we are headlining again and this time in Las Vegas. Let's make that the headline, as well as the 'paint-gate' situation. I know the media wants to make a headline, but it should be that there's two females headlining in Las Vegas. That is an achievement in itself and for the women coming up in the future, to see that we can do it. I'm sure it will give them a boost and a push to see where me and Mikaela are right now.I would love to come back to the UK and headline in a third fight against her. I've been in the US twice so it's England's turn now. Let me get this job done and hopefully I can make that Ryan was talking to BBC Sport's Bobbie Jackson.
BBC News
27-03-2025
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- BBC News
'No evidence leading back to me' - Mayer on Ryan paint attack
WBO welterweight champion Mikaela Mayer faces Briton Sandy Ryan in a Las Vegas rematch on Saturday. In her BBC Sport column, American Mayer talks about the events leading up to victory in last September's first fight in New York when Ryan was hit by a can of red paint before leaving for the Friday, Ryan will address the controversy and rivalry between the pair. I was in my room and we were starting to walk to the elevator, waiting for the go-ahead from the team to say we could go down because we were at the same hotel as Sandy Ryan. Sandy was out there first waiting for her car so we stood by the elevator and my nutritionist said to wait because she hasn't got in the car nutritionist was looking at her phone and was like, 'oh my god, someone just threw paint on Sandy'. We were all taken aback but I didn't understand that I was apparently the culprit.I got in the car but didn't really understand the extent of it until I got to the arena and online there was a photo of Sandy, who was stripped down with red paint on her. ESPN came in to see me and apparently I'm being blamed for the who knows me, knows that would be out of character for me - it's not my style. I expected her to try to blame me. I was her rival all week but there were also other things going on. Sandy has already said flyers attacking her were put up around the hotel and can't just point a finger when there is no evidence leading back to me. I was upstairs waiting to walk down for the fight of my life. I didn't know what time she was going to be down there or that she was going first. The only people who knew were her team - maybe she should look inside her own circle. 'I hope it doesn't happen going into this fight' The incident took me by surprise but I was in fight mode and it didn't happen to me, so I wasn't someone had thrown paint on me I would have slapped paint on the ass of my fight shorts and got on with it.I was concerned that she was going to pull out - her team were really getting her going about was a clip of her coach Kay Koroma in the locker room screaming at her to pull out of the fight which I thought was super suspicious. That was weird to me and out of character for him. I really don't think it was the paint that threw her off her game but her team, who made it a bigger deal than it had to I don't want that to happen and I hope it doesn't happen going into this fight. It could have been called off and, after two years of busting my butt to get back in that position, that was the last thing I for 'paint-gate' being used to promote the rematch, I was surprised the Top Rank team used the paint on the promotion posters - but this is entertainment. I didn't have any say in it. If I had done anything like that, my manager would have had my neck as he tries to keep me professional.I didn't know about it until the poster came out and I said, 'do they have red paint on Sandy?'I was just as taken aback as anyone else, but it's kind of funny. 'I have truth on my side' It's important for women's boxing to have these rivalries and this is definitely up there as one of the top ones.I never counted out the rematch and just wanted to see what my other options were. Once I saw the views and how much the fans wanted it - and the excuses - I thought let's do it again and I'll do it even better.I didn't get my rematch with Alycia Baumgardner so I understand Sandy might have been frustrated, but I didn't have to give her this rematch. I could have just sat it out, waited for Lauren Price to unify and fought for undisputed or faced someone else. That's not the fighter I am though.I pride myself on the fact a lot of the fights I have been in are competitive and people aren't sure who will win. My feud with Alycia will stay number one for a lifetime, but Sandy can come second because of the coaching team situation and the paint and her team have tried to gaslight me in a sense where I'm supposed to be making all of this up or I'm being dramatic, but it going to see coach Koroma, my coach of eight or nine years since the Olympics, in her corner so they really can't say anything about it. They did what they did and they have to stand by that. I'm just protecting myself and I'm the one who had to go out and find a whole new team at this stage of my career which is not easy. I have truth on my Mayer was speaking to BBC Sport's Bobbie Jackson.
