Mary Spencer and Mikaela Mayer previewed their battle and confronted off throughout the press convention in Montreal, Canada. The 2 fighters conflict for the unified tremendous welterweight titles this Thursday, October 30, dwell from the Cabaret du On line casino de Montréal.
Spencer (10-2, 6 KOs) of Wiarton, Ontario, and Mayer (21-2, 5 KOs) of Los Angeles meet in a 10-round showdown with three 154-pound belts at stake. Spencer places her WBA title on the road, whereas the vacant WBC and WBO straps are additionally up for grabs.
40-year-old Spencer makes her second championship protection. 35-year-old Mayer, who reigns because the WBO 147-pound champion, seems to grow to be a three-division world champion.
‘I do know that I’m the underdog in accordance with the bookies’
“I noticed the chances. I do know that I’m the underdog in accordance with the bookies, however I imply, they get it fallacious typically,” Mary Spencer stated. “I don’t really feel like an underdog. I really feel like this battle is a present.”
“I do know the place I’m at so far as coaching, the place I’m at in my life, and I felt even earlier than this battle was matched that the subsequent opponent was going to be in hassle – whoever that was. And now the state of affairs is much more thrilling as a result of it’s Mikaela, due to the type that she brings.”
“I get to be right here at house. I get to actually present a hometown crowd my greatest, and I’m very excited for that.”
“I believe the important thing to victory goes to be me staying snug and being myself within the ring, and simply being calm.”
‘Dimension doesn’t win fights, ability does’
Mikaela Mayer stated, “I’m actually blissful to be again right here in Canada. I haven’t fought in Canada since my beginner days, again once I first realized of Mary Spencer. It’s nice to be again.”
“I’ve a giant job to do on Thursday night time. It’s at all times been my objective on this sport to go and get hold of the very best fights potential, the largest names potential.”
“I’ve had a fantastic profession up to now. I did my factor at 130. I moved as much as 147 and have become a champion there, however my objective is to go undisputed. I couldn’t get that undisputed battle in opposition to Lauren Worth at 147, so my objective is to search out the subsequent greatest problem for me. And when Mary Spencer’s identify got here up, I stated, ‘Yep, let’s go to 154. Let’s take that problem.’”
“She’s a worthy opponent. She’s performed loads within the sport. I bear in mind her identify from again within the day. She was the ‘it woman’ again within the amateurs, so these are the kind of names I wish to add to my resume, and we bought the battle performed, so I’m blissful to be right here.”
“I plan on getting my hand raised Thursday night time, turning into a three-division world champion, after which me and my workforce will resolve what we’ll do from there.”
“There are many large fights forward of me, however the primary objective proper now could be to placed on a fantastic efficiency, present everybody that regardless that I’m the smaller fighter, expertise pay the payments. Dimension doesn’t win fights, ability does.”
“So, that’s what I’m going to do Thursday night time. I’m going to belief my nook and belief the sport plan that now we have. It was a extremely lengthy camp. We put in lots of work in, so I’ll be able to placed on a fantastic present for you guys.”
On the Spencer vs Mayer undercard, Mexican-born Christopher Guerrero (15-0, 9 KOs) meets Williams Herrera (17-4, 7 KOs) of Argentina. Guerrero brings his WBC Continental welterweight belt to the ring.
Wilkens Mathieu (14-0, 10 KOs) and Shakeel Phinn (27-3-2, 17 KOs) sq. off for the WBC Continental Americas and NABF tremendous middleweight titles.
The complete Spencer vs Mayer lineup is as follows:
Mary Spencer (10-2, 6 KOs) vs. Mikaela Mayer (21-2, 5 KOs) tremendous welterweight
Wilkens Mathieu (14-0, 10 KOs) vs. Shakeel Phinn (27-3-2, 17 KOs), tremendous middleweight
Arthur Biyarslanov (19-0, 16 KOs) vs. Sergey Lipinets (18-4-1, 13 KOs), tremendous light-weight
Mehmet Unal (13-0, 11 KOs) vs. Ralfs Vilcans (18-2, 7 KOs), mild heavyweight
Christopher Guerrero (15-0, 9 KOs) vs. Williams Herrera (17-4, 7 KOs), welterweight
Thomas Chabot (11-0, 8 KOs) vs. Logan Clouthier (6-0, 4 KOs), tremendous featherweight
Erik Israyelyan (2-0, 2 KOs) vs. Dylan Schroeder (6-0, 4 KOs), tremendous featherweight
