{"id":235875,"date":"2025-10-31T12:17:07","date_gmt":"2025-10-31T12:17:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/235875\/"},"modified":"2025-10-31T12:17:07","modified_gmt":"2025-10-31T12:17:07","slug":"mikaela-mayer-american-beats-mary-spencer-to-become-three-division-world-champion-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/235875\/","title":{"rendered":"Mikaela Mayer: American beats Mary Spencer to become three-division world champion"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Mayer reaffirmed her life-long goal of becoming an undisputed champion after a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/sport\/boxing\/articles\/c7vn5dm1g6do\" class=\"ssrcss-k8mrr8-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">second consecutive win<\/a> over Briton Sandy Ryan earlier this year.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">She had hoped to face Wales&#8217; Lauren Price, the WBC welterweight champion, in an undisputed fight.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">That bout fell through largely because of promotional and broadcast issues.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">If a fight with Price &#8211; who is expected to be back in action in the UK in December &#8211; does not materialise next for Mayer, she could pursue undisputed status at light-middleweight against IBF champion Oshae Jones.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;The most important thing is that I have options,&#8221; Mayer said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;I&#8217;d love to do both &#8211; go back down to 147lb for undisputed, then come back up and defend at 154lb.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">A potential super-fight could also be on the cards against Claressa Shields, the self-proclaimed &#8216;Greatest Woman of All Time&#8217; and undisputed three-weight world champion, who currently holds titles at heavyweight.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">American Shields, currently a free agent, is attracting interest from several promoters, including Most Valuable Promotions, co-founded by Jake Paul and Nakisa Bidarian.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">If Shields were to move down to super-middleweight, Mayer &#8211; despite it not being a natural weight &#8211; has said she would gladly meet her there.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Mayer reaffirmed her life-long goal of becoming an undisputed champion after a second consecutive win over Briton Sandy&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":235638,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[2560,101,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-235875","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-boxing","8":"tag-boxing","9":"tag-sports","10":"tag-uk","11":"tag-united-kingdom","12":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/235875","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=235875"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/235875\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/235638"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=235875"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=235875"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=235875"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}