NEW YORK CITY —Mikaela Mayer (20-2, 5 KOs) is once again a world champion.
The former unified junior lightweight queen defeated bitter rival Sandy Ryan (7-2-1, 3 KOs) via majority decision to capture the WBO welterweight world title Friday evening at The Theater at Madison Square Garden.
NEW YORK — New York heavyweight prospect Josh Popper is set to make his professional debut on Tuesday, October 1 when he faces Mike Diorio at the Texas Troubadour Theatre in Nashville, Tennessee.
The four-round fight will be part of the next “Country Box” event, which blends professional boxing action with country music. The event will be headlined by a super middleweight fight between Nashville-based Cuban Maidel Sando (14-0, 9 KOs) and Derrick Findley (36-30-1, 25 KOs).
Netflix today announced COUNTDOWN: PAUL VS. TYSON, a three-part documentary series with intimate access to fighters The Problem Child, Jake “El Gallo” Paul (10-1, 7 KOs) and the Baddest Man on the Planet, Mike Tyson (50-6, 44 KOs) as they prepare for Netflix and Most Valuable Promotions’ (MVP) highly-anticipated Jake Paul vs. Mike Tyson heavyweight boxing mega-event, airing live on Friday, November 15, 2024 at 8pm ET / 5pm PT from AT&T Stadium in Arlington, TX.
Weigh-In Results: Sandy Ryan vs. Mikaela Mayer
TOMORROW at 10:30 p.m. ET/7:30 p.m. PT LIVE on ESPN, ESPN Deportes & ESPN+
The Theater at Madison Square Garden (New York City)
RENES, Switzerland (September 26, 2024) – The President of the National Olympic Committee of Kazakhstan and 2004 Olympic silver medalist and two-time middleweight world champion, Gennadiy Golovkin, has been appointed Chair of a new Olympic Commission by World Boxing, the International Federation established to ensure boxing remains at the heart of the Olympic Movement.