.Brett Okamoto, ESPN Team WriterSep 28, 2024, 12:07 AM ETCloseMMA reporter for ESPN.com.Expert for “MMA Live”.Dealt With MMA for Sin city SunEnglish fighter Sandy Ryan indicted Mikaela Mayer, her opponent in a title bout Friday evening in Nyc, of orchestrating a pre-fight act through which Ryan was hit by a paint may as she left her hotel previously in the evening.Ryan (7-2-1, 3 KOs) shed her WBO welterweight title to Mayer (20-2, 5 KOs) through large number selection, along with the courts racking up the fight 95-95, 97-93 and also 96-94. The leadup to the battle at Madison Square Garden was deeply personal for both, as Ryan had actually been dealing with Mayer’s former long time train Kay Koroma. Mayer parted means with Koroma when he made a decision to team up with Ryan, a move she considered a betrayal.Editor’s PicksAs Ryan left her lodging for the location Friday, she was struck by an available coating can coming from an unknown man.
She said she really felt something “shatter” right into her tummy, and afterwards viewed a man in a hoodie run to an auto as well as repel. Ryan was unimpaired as well as continued to the place after changing garments in her hotels and resort room.She and her group said to ESPN they felt it was a member of Mayer’s camping ground, an allegation Mayer has denied.” Mikaela Mayer is actually going to acquire it,” Ryan stated just before the battle. “It was actually certainly a create from her staff.
What else would certainly it be? It is actually reached be. I’m coming from the U.K.
That understood what opportunity I was actually appearing of my lodging to head to the site?” Mayer, of Colorado Springs, Colorado, got better coming from a split decision reduction to Natasha Jones in January. Ryan was actually searching for her second succeed this year.