By: Sean Crose
“I’ve a giant job to do on Thursday evening” says multi weight titlist Mikaela Mayer (by way of the WBO). “It’s at all times been my purpose on this sport to go and get hold of the most effective fights doable, the most important names doable.” Mayer can have a chance to show simply how good she is on Thursday when she takes on Mary Spencer in Spencer ‘s homeland of Canada. Suffice to say a WBO world title is at stake.
“I’ve had an awesome profession up to now,” Mayer continues. “I did my factor at 130. I moved as much as 147 and have become a champion there, however my purpose is to go undisputed. I couldn’t get that undisputed struggle in opposition to Lauren Worth at 147, so my purpose is to seek out the subsequent finest 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 could also be nicely into her thirties, however the fashionable Mayer feels that notable days are nonetheless forward. “There are many large fights forward of me,” she says, “however the primary purpose proper now could be to placed on an awesome efficiency, present everybody that though I’m the smaller fighter, expertise pay the payments. Dimension doesn’t win fights, ability does.”
Suffice to say, Mayer is assured her expertise shall be put to good use in opposition to Spencer. “That’s what I’m going to do Thursday evening,” she says. “I’m going to belief my nook and belief the sport plan that we have now. It was a very lengthy camp. We put in loads of work in, so I’ll be able to placed on an awesome present for you guys.”
Spencer, nonetheless, plans on making the evening her personal. “I noticed the chances,” she says. “I do know that I’m the underdog based on the bookies, however I imply, they get it fallacious typically. I don’t really feel like an underdog. I really feel like this struggle is a present.”
Like Mayer, Spencer appears prepared for the opening bell. “I I do know the place I’m at so far as coaching,” she says, “the place I’m at in my life, and I felt even earlier than this struggle was matched that the subsequent opponent was going to be in bother, whoever that was. And now the scenario is much more thrilling as a result of it’s Mikaela, due to the model that she brings.”
To Spencer, all of it appears to come back all the way down to self-belief. “I feel the important thing to victory,” she says, ” goes to be me staying comfy and being myself within the ring, and simply being calm.”
