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Mikaela Mayer vs Sandy Ryan 2 Fight Preview

Bitter rivals Mikaela Mayer (20-2, 5 KOs) and Sandy Ryan (7-2-1, 3 KOs) will lock horns once again on March 29, six months on from their first fight, this time in Las Vegas.

The welterweights will clash for Mayer’s WBO world championship in the headlining fight of the Top Rank show, live on ESPN, which also features another WBO world welterweight title clash between Brian Norman Jr. and Derrieck Cuevas.

On September 27, 2024, Sandy Ryan met Mikaela Mayer in Now York to defend her WBO world welterweight title that she had held since 2023.

34-year-old American Mayer came into the championship clash off the back of a loss to the IBF world welterweight champion Tasha Jonas in January 2024. The fight held in Liverpool ended in a split decision win for Jonas, but not without its controversy, with many fight fans left feeling sorry for the visitor after some dubious hometown judging.

Fortunately, Mayer deservedly got another world title shot the same year, once more filled with controversy, but of a very different kind, way before the first bell or even the ringwalks had taken place.

As the Brit left her hotel for the Madison Square Garden Hulu Theater venue, she was splashed with red paint from someone who charged at her then immediately ran and jumped into a passing car in a deliberate attempt to unsettle the champion.

Mayer later condemned the attack, but Ryan was adamant that her rival was behind it, “Who else would it be? Who knew what time I was coming down from my hotel to the venue? They knew what time,” she openly accused.

Prior to the first fight, there was already bad blood, with Mayer raging at Ryan for stealing her trainer away. Now the rivalry has escalated even further with ‘Paint-gate’.

When they finally met in the ring, Ryan started the fight slow, while Mayer was quicker with her jab and able to land a big right hand to rock Ryan’s head to the side in the opening round.

The challenger was visibly faster than the champion, flicking out her jab on the backfoot, as Ryan came forwards, but seemed unable to handle her opponent’s constant movement early on. 

Mayer slipped shots to land fast jabs time and time again. Ryan’s bigger, weightier punches weren’t able to land as often as the challenger’s sharp, flicky jabs were.

Mayer didn’t just box off the backfoot all the time, she matched Ryan for aggression as the pair finished many of the rounds trading toe-to-toe.

Mayer’s speed and movement won the fight for her, but she also proved her toughness by exchanging in firefights with the big puncher.

Ryan landed some huge punches on Mayer in the ninth round, but she was able to take them all and return her own back. Mikaela was able to deal with the immense pressure of being walked down by a powerful puncher to fire back a few of her own clean shots.

Mayer finished the fight strongly by outlanding Ryan, who raised her hand on the final bell, but it was quite clear Mayer had done more than enough to win that WBO belt, which she was rightfully bestowed with, with scores of 95-95, 97-93, 96-94.

Mikaela Mayer vs Sandy Ryan 2 Prediction

Mayer described Ryan as the strongest person she had ever boxed, but also noted that her skill beat her strength, which is a true statement.

Mayer was faster and sharper, able to match her in close as well as pick her off from range, and her timing and movement was simply superb.

Ryan can come back in the rematch with an improved performance, but it will require a Herculean effort, where she will have to apply even more pressure and up the workrate in every round, starting from the very first round.

The last fight was close, with Mayer landing the more eyecatching shots when she continuously caught Ryan from range, but was also more effective with her combinations too.

Ryan was the aggressor throughout, but not always effectively enough. I’d imagine the rerun will be a carbon copy of the first fight, with Ryan coming forwards, Mayer backing up and pivoting away to land her swift jabs.

Ryan has to start the fight faster, increase her speed and output, close the gap more often, and try to win their many inevitable exchanges in close, which is a lot to ask for.

Judging from their first fight, and basing this prediction on it playing out in a similar way, then I think it will be just as close, perhaps a little closer, but with the same result at the end.

Prediction: Mayer to win on points.

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How To Bet On Boxing

There are several options when it comes to betting on boxing, and the more you know, the better your chances of success. We will now go into more detail about some of the different betting markets that you will find, and discuss a few potential strategies you could use.

Outright / To Win Fight

As with most sports, the outright market is probably the simplest, because you’re just betting on who will win the fight. There are no other criteria to consider, other than the fact that with many of the best bookies for boxing, you can also bet on the draw. However, draws in boxing are very rare and not many people tend to back this outcome.

Bear in mind that in many fights, one boxer tends to be a heavy favourite and it’s usually quite easy to pick the winner. There don’t tend to be that many shock results. Therefore, the odds on the favourite are often very low, even if you use the bookie with the best odds as described earlier in the article.

If you’re happy betting at short odds, you can certainly get a good success rate simply by backing short price favourites in boxing. But many people prefer to look for bigger wins. So you may sometimes need to look at some of the other markets to get a better return on your bet.

Fight Outcome / Method of Victory

This market lets you choose not only who will win the fight, but how they will win. Different methods of victory are usually grouped as follows:

• By KO (knockout), TKO (tecnhical knockout) or DQ (opponent disqualified).
• By Decision (on points) or Technical Decision.

So because there are more possible outcomes in this market, the odds are higher than just the outright win market.

Round Betting

The Round Betting market offers the opportunity to get the highest odds. Here you can bet on which fighter will win, and which round he/she will win in.

Options to bet on a fighter to win on points, or to bet on the draw, are both also included in this market. In a 12 round bout, that gives 27 different possible outcomes. Therefore, the odds on each one are naturally going to be much higher. Think of it as the equivalent of the correct score market in football betting.

So the round betting market offers the biggest potential wins when betting on boxing. But of course, it’s harder to predict the outcome. You do have the option to split your stake to cover more than one outcome though. So if you felt that a fighter would win within the first 3 rounds, you could split your stake to back him to win in round 1, round 2 and round 3. The odds would mean you’d get a good profit if any of those outcomes happened.

To Go The Distance

This is a simple market in which you decide whether the fight will last all 12 rounds or not. Therefore there are only two outcomes to bet on, Yes or No.

It’s possible to get a decent success rate when betting on this market. Check the stats and the history of each boxer and ask yourself the following:

• Are the fighters evenly matched?
• Do they have a reputation for durability and rarely having been stopped in the past?
• If there is a favourite, is he/she an aggressive boxer or does he/she prefer to wear their opponent down?
• How many of their previous fights have gone the distance?

The answers to these key questions should give you a good idea of whether the fight is likely to go the distance or not. There can still be surprises, but you’ll certainly win more bets than you lose.

Total Rounds Over/Under

This market allows you to bet on the total number of rounds the fight will last for. The advantage here is that you do not need to specify who will win, just how long it will last.

For example, let’s consider a market of Over/Under 3.5 Rounds. There are only two options to bet on, either Over 3.5 Rounds or Under 3.5 Rounds. Therefore, you would approach the market as follows:

• If you think the fight will last for 3 rounds or less, you would bet on Under.
• If you think it will last for 4 rounds or more, you would be on Over.

You will find that similar markets are available for Over/under 4.5, Over/Under 5.5, Over/Under 6.5 etc.

Where To Get The Best Odds On Boxing

As any professional punter will tell you, the key to making a profit is not knowing who will win every time. Because obviously, that is not possible. The real trick is making sure that when you do win, you get the best possible odds on your bet.

We studied the odds for outright bets on every professional boxing match over a period of three months. We wanted to find the best bookies for boxing odds over a prolonged period of time.

As you would expect, Betfair and Bet365 are better than most of the competition. But the results showed that Betfred have the highest odds overall and came out well in some of the other markets like round betting.

Betfred were consistently best or equal best odds on nearly every outright market we recorded. They blew some of the other online bookies away in terms of the value they offered on boxing, and their user ratings are good too. So if you don’t have an account with them yet, we would definitely recommend joining.

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