Mikaela Mayer Wins A Unanimous Decision Over Erica Farias

By: Hector Franco

LAS VEGAS – The co-main occasion on ESPN’s broadcast from The Theater on the Virgin Lodges in Las Vegas, Nevada, featured WBO feminine tremendous featherweight champion Mikaela Mayer (15-0, 5 KOs) making the primary protection of her title over veteran and former two-division champion Erica Farias (26-5, 10 KOs).

Mayer would win a unanimous choice over Farias to retain her WBO tremendous featherweight championship. All three judges scored the combat for Mayer with scores of 97-93 and 98-92 twice.

The 36-year outdated Farias has held titles at light-weight and tremendous light-weight, making 11 defenses of her WBC light-weight title and 4 defenses of her WBC tremendous light-weight title.

The Argentinean has solely been defeated by elite fighters, dropping choices to Jessica McCaskill, Cecilia Braekhus, and Delfine Persoon.

Undoubtedly, Farias represented the hardest check in Mayer’s profession so far.

The bout was extremely technical, with each girls trying to make the most of any mistake made. Mayer used her jab to create extra openings to assault Farias; nevertheless, the Argentinean has an unorthodox fashion making it tough for the WBO champion to land clear punches.

Farias used her veteran expertise to land some distinctive punches, similar to a lead uppercut counter from the surface. Anytime Farias was in a position to get near Mayer on the within, she was in a position to catch the California native with a clear shot. In exchanges, the previous two-division champion was in a position to land left hooks.

Whereas Mayer wasn’t visibly damage by the left hooks, it was alarming to see what number of occasions Farias was in a position to land the punch persistently.

The general theme of the combat, nevertheless, was led by Mayer’s greatest punch, her jab.

By the seventh and eighth rounds, Mayer was in full management, utilizing her jab to get on the within of Farias to land uppercuts and physique punches that started to put on down the Argentinean native.

Mayer is a fighter that at occasions begins fights slowly; nevertheless, because the rounds go by, she turns into increasingly more efficient. A combat that started competitively grew to become a one-sided showcase for Mayer because of her consistency in utilizing the jab.

Taking residence the unanimous choice victory over Farias, Mayer will hopefully be capable to hold escalating her stage of competitors.

The World Boxing Tremendous Sequence introduced earlier this week that their subsequent event can be within the girls’s tremendous featherweight division. Ought to Mayer resolve to enter the event, she can be one of many favorites to win all of it.