In a female super featherweight title unification, WBC champion Alycia Baumgardner (12-1, 7 KOs) took the IBF and WBO belts from Mikaela Mayer (17-0, 5 KOs) via narrow ten round split decision in the co-feature of the big all-women’s card at the O2 Arena in London. Close fight. Baumgardner nearly doubled up Mayer’s power punch totals to win 96-95, 96-95 on two cards. Mayer was up 97-93 on the third card.
“I worked my ass off to get here,” Baumgardner said. “I landed the cleaner shots. The harder shots. I had her cut above her forehead. I was the harder puncher. I dug deep. That girl ain’t getting no rematch. I’m going after Choi [Hyun-Mi] like I said. Undisputed is what I claimed. It’s what I’m going to do.”
Mayer said, “I’m really confident that I won that fight. She was defeated. I saw it in her eyes. She was tired. She knows she lost the fight. She was shocked by the decision. She got lucky. I think the crowd believes that I won that fight. I took control of the fight from the second round on, for sure. At the very least, I won seven rounds clearly. I felt like I had it. I hope that she gives me a rematch. I think I deserve it, and I feel that the fans wants to see it.”
Terrible decision.
First card was right…97-93 for Mayer.
Personally I thought Mayer did the better quality work and controlled the fight with the jab while BG took too much time posing and not enough time throwing.
Baffling.
Wrong. The 97-93 was ridiculous. The 96-95 were good cards. Could have been a draw.
97-93 for Mayer to me personally was a bad score card I had Baumgardner landing the cleaner more telling punches and showing good ring generalship.
I independently scored it in favor of Baum by one point before the scorecards were announced. Mayer looked tired and flat from the opening bell.
I agree, Mayer looked tired and flat from the opening bell. Maybe, the let down with the postponement of the fight effected her performance. The fight could have gone either way. A rematch.
Not sure about these judges. Mikaela Mayer won the fight. 97-93 or 96-95 doesnt matter since the judges have the fight away.
Clear win Mayer. 97-93 was right.
Give it a rest, Pal.
And buy some tissues.
Baumgardner won, period, very hard fought by the two ladies, but fair decision
I agree. Baumgardner was superb tonight. Mayer showed no class.
I caught the back end of the fight and didn’t see the cards but it looked to me like the right person won.
Both quality fighters.
I thought Baumgardner edged it, but that was so close that I wouldn’t have had a problem with any result as a draw or a winner by one or two points. I will say that, given their backgrounds, I would expect Baumgardner to have a more decisive edge in the rematch. I think she’ll grow a lot from this fight and she’s 28 – right in her prime.
Baum says she will not grant a rematch.
How can you get 96-95 (twice) in a 10 round fight with no knockdowns? Its got to be 95-95 or 96-94 but NOT 96-95.
5-4 and 1 even is 96-95.
There are no EVEN rounds
There has to be a winner for each round.
I had the fight 96 to 94 for Mayer.
There’s this thing they call an even round…10-10. Make sense now?
Not according to the 10 point Must System where one fighter must have a 10 and the other less then that.
Only even round can be 9 to 9 where there is a point deduction issued by the referee of the bout.
You can score a rd 10-10 if it’s even
You can but judges are taught that there should very rarely be an even round-years ago there were many even rounds by indecisive judges.
I want to applaud the judges for making the right decision. Baumgardner was superb tonight. I had Baumgardner winning 7 rounds to 3.
The right girl won. Mayer was a lousy sport at the end
Exactly !! – Thank you, Brian.
The first three rounds were the difference. Mayer basically gave those rounds away by not aggressively backing Baumgardner up and letting her hands go. Baumgardner outworked her in those early rounds. Mayer started taking over in the 4th round and kept the pressure on till the end.
It was a close fight and I wouldn’t have any quarrel with Mayer winning or a draw. If they do have a rematch, Mayer should take a lesson from this fight and see that pressure and higher punch rate would be needed to secure a win.
Those numbers are according to compubox , the real score is far from that power punches score. No way Alycia won, Mayer won maybe as close as 96-94 or maybe 97-93.
I know your crush lost, but she lost.
Mayer got her ass beat. Live with it.
Don’t know what fight you were watching Jerry. Mayer clearly lost the first 3’rounds. She also lost the last round. All the rest of rounds were pretty close. She lost, she wasn’t active enough to make a case. A draw would have been a stretch. Then you would be giving Mayer the benefit in every close round. Close but clear win for Alycia in my book
Mayer won. Period. Point. Blank. I had it 6-4, in a weird world a draw, but Mayer won!!
Mayer did not win, Pal.
Buy some glasses.
A rematch sounds warranted.
two of the judges got it right Baumgardner countering landing the cleaner shots congrats to her
I think it is ridiculous that one judge had the nerve to give it to Mayer. Baumgardner clearly won almost every round, and her boxing was superb. Bottom line, point blank, Baumgardner beat Mayer’s ass.
Congratulations, Alycia Baumgardner.
I thought Mayer won the fight. I’m disappointed that Baumgardner stated she won’t give Mayer a rematch. I think a rematch would be worth watching. In hindsight, Mayer should have added a rematch clause to the contract.
Mayer won the fight…by close decision but because this country is catering to black people today, Mayer could have knocked her out and they still would have awarded Alicia the win
great fight, I guess many of us scored it differently. Some fights should not have rematches, but this would be a good one to rematch.