By: Sean Crose
Natasha Jonas was capable of maintain on to the IBF welterweight title on Saturday when she gained a detailed and reasonably controversial break up choice over former American titlist Mikaela Mayer. “I thought I did enough to win,” Mayer acknowledged afterward. ” I outpunched her and outworked her, touchdown clear pictures and having her backed up towards the ropes.” Suffice to say Mayer felt a second struggle was so as. “I think that fight is worth seeing again. I didn’t have a rematch clause on my side,” she stated, “but I hope we can get it on again. It’s disappointing, but what am I going to do? I hope Natasha is going to be the standup champion and give me a rematch. I believe I warranted the rematch.”
The struggle was thrilling, to make sure. Indeed, each fighters had been keen to confess as a lot. “I knew from the first 10 seconds it was going to be a battle and halfway through I thought this is fight of the year,” Mayer stated. “She is in the top-two fighters I have faced,” Jonas acknowledged of Mayer, “and she will be devastated with this defeat, but she should use it as motivation to become a two-weight world champion,” Sure sufficient, Jonas claimed that solely the nice Katie Taylor proved to be a harder foe. Sure sufficient, Taylor stays one of many solely fighters on the earth to formally hand the 15-2-1 Jonas a loss.
Saturday marked the second lack of Mayer’s 19-2 profession, the primary defeat coming from Alycia Baumgardner in 2022. Still, there was a variety of good to be stated concerning the American’s efficiency. Those who puzzled how the previous junior welterweight might compete at welterweight had their questions answered loudly and clearly. Throw in the truth that Mayer fought in addition to she did towards Jonas in Jonas’ dwelling city of Liverpool, England, and it’s simple to see why her efficiency was spectacular. It’s additionally simple to see why some will really feel the thirty three 12 months previous was robbed. That assertion is perhaps hyperbolic, however the level is evident – many cheap folks thought Mayer ought to have been the one strolling out of the ring with the IBF title in her possession on Saturday.
“We had a rematch clause on her side, not on my side,” Mayer stated, “but this is a warranted rematch. I feel like I deserve another shot and I want to go again.”
