Mikaela mayer bio
Mikaela Mayer, a professional boxer, has had a noteworthy career in boxing with 18 fights to her name, including 17 wins, one loss, and no draws or no-contests. She has achieved a total of three title wins and successfully defended her titles three times. Mayer has won five matches via knockout and has never lost a fight via knockout.
She made her debut in professional boxing at the age of 27 on August 5, 2017, against Widnelly Figueroa. Mayer won her debut match via 1st round knockout. After that, she won 16 more consecutive fights with four wins via stoppage. She has had a remarkable career, fighting some of the best boxers in the world and emerging victorious in most of her fights.
Mayer's first world title match was on October 31, 2020, where she fought Ewa Brodnicka for the vacant super-featherweight WBO title. Mayer won the match via a 10 round unanimous decision and became the super-featherweight champion of the world.
One year later, on November 5, 2021, Mayer fought against Maïva Hamadouche, which was a unified super-featherweight bout. Mayer won the match via 10 round unanimous decision and became the WBO, IBF, and The Ring super-featherweight world champion. In her most recent highlight, Mayer successfully defended her IBF, WBO, and The Ring super-featherweight titles against Jennifer Han on April 9, 2022, winning the fight via 10 round unanimous decision.
Throughout her career, Mayer has fought against some of the most talented boxers in the world, including Maïva Hamadouche, Jennifer Han, Érica Farías, Ewa Brodnicka, Helen Joseph, Baby Nansen, and Alejandra Soledad Zamora. She fought all these boxers and emerged victorious against them.
As a professional boxer, Mayer has had just a single loss so far. She suffered her first defeat against Alycia Baumgardner via 10 round split-decision on October 15, 2022. It ended her 17-fight win streak, and Baumgardner is the only boxer to beat her. However, Mayer remains determined and has made it cle American boxer (born 1990) Mikaela Joslin Mayer (born July 4, 1990) is an American professional boxer, who has held WBO welterweight title since September 2024. She is also a former unified female super-featherweight world champion, having held the WBO and the IBF titles simultaneously. She has also held the interim WBC female lightweight world title. As an amateur, she won a bronze medal at the 2012 World Championships and competed for the U.S. at the 2016 Olympics. Mayer competed internationally as part of Team USA in the women's 60 kg category at the 2016 Rio Summer Olympics. She defeated Jennifer Chieng in the Round of 16 before being eliminated in the quarterfinal by Russian Anastasia Belyakova, who took a majority decision. After signing a promotional deal with Top Rank, Mayer made her professional debut on 5 August 2017, defeating Widnelly Figueroa by first-round knockout. Mayer beat Ewa Brodnicka by unanimous decision to win the WBO female super-featherweight World title at the MGM Grand in Las Vegas on 31 October 2020. Her Polish opponent had been reigning champion but was stripped of the belt after failing to make the 130-pound weight limit. On 5 November 2021, she took on IBF female super-featherweight World champion Maïva Hamadouche in a contest that saw both women's titles and the inaugural Ring female super-featherweight belt on the line. Mayer prevailed by unanimous decision. Seeking to further unify the division, Mayer faced WBC and IBO champion Alycia Baumgardner in London, England, on 15 October 2022. She lost via split decision with judges John Latham and Steve Gray making Baumgardner the winner, both scoring the fight 96-95, while Terry O’Connor gave it to Mayer 97-93. Mayer switched to lightweight for her next outing where she was scheduled to face 5'9" super featherweight Mikaela Joslin Mayer, born on July 4, 1990, born in Woodland Hills, California, USA, and currently as of 2020, resides in Colorado Springs, Colorado. WBAN's first contact with Mayer was in 2012, at the history-first Olympic Trials, where she was one of 24 amateur boxers competing to be in the first Olympics that was held in 2012 in London, England. [Top photo by Mary Ann Owen] In a summary of her amateur career before turning pro, she won a bronze medal at the 2012 World Championships and competed for the U.S. at the 2016 Olympics. As of December 2020, she is ranked #1 with BoxRec as a Super Featherweight. On August 5, 2017, Mikaela, at 131�, made her professional debut, when she fought at the Microsoft Theatre, in Los Angeles, California. She wasted little time in stopping her opponent, Widnelly Figueroa, 129�, at 1:15 seconds of the first round, with the bout scheduled for four rounds. On September 22, 2017, at the Convention Center, Tucson, Arizona, Mayer, 131 3/4, won in an impressive performance, won by a third round TKO over Allison Martinez, 131 3/4. The bout was scheduled for four rounds. At this time in her career, Mayer was signed to Top Rank Promotions. On December 9, 2017, at the Madison Square Garden Theater, New York, Mayer, 131�, now 3-0-0 (2KO), won a four-round majority decision over Nydia Feliciano, 131�, of Bronx, New York. The final judges scores were 38-38, 36-40, and 36-40. Referee IWBHF Hall of Famer, Sparkle Lee ref'd her bout. On March 10, 2018, at the Stub Center, in Carson, California, Mayer, 131�, won by a first round 0:35 KO over Maria Semertzoglou, 130�. The bout was scheduled for four rounds.Mikaela Mayer
Personal
Began boxingat 17 after passing a muai thai kickBoxing gym in the valley in Los Angeles for weeks. She quickly became obsessed with it. She's the first person in her family of hippies to box. She moved to Marquette, Mich., to join the USOEC program in Marquette, Mich., and met her coach Al Mitchell there. She splits time between Marquette and Colorado Springs.Career Highlights
Olympic Experience
World Championship Experience
Mikaela Mayer
Amateur career
Amateur accolades
Professional career
On May 5, 2018, at the Madison Square Garden, New York, Mayer, 131�, won a six-round unanimous decision over Baby Nansen, 13