By Isaac Nyamungu Despite the match between bitter female contenders Mikaela Mayer alongside Sandy Ryan being a very successful one, the bout that saw Mayer win

Sandy Ryan and Mikaela Mayer have been embroiled in a bitter feud for months. On Friday, they'll finally meet in the ring to settle their differences.

Though last night's fight between bitter female rivals Mikaela Mayer and Sandy Ryan was a very good one, the fight that saw Mayer take the WBO welterweight

A bizarre situation on Friday resulted in WBO welterweight champion Sandy Ryan losing her belt after getting splashed with paint outside her New York City hotel.

There’s little respect left between Sandy Ryan and Mikaela Mayer — and not just because they’ll be fighting this Friday, when Ryan will defend her WBO welterweight title against Mayer.

The ESPN+-streamed undercard begins at 6:30 p.m. ET/3:30 p.m. PT and includes the MSG debut of Vito Mielnicki Jr. (19-1, 12 KOs), who will fight Italy’s Khalil El Harraz (16-5-1, 2 KOs) in a 10-round junior middleweight battle.

Mikaela Mayer defeated Sandy Ryan to become the WBO Welterweight Champion via a unanimous decision: 95-95, 96-94 and 97-93. The fight was dominated by the bad build-up during which Ryan was hit with paint while she left her hotel.

Newly crowned WBO women's welterweight champion Mikaela Mayer has distanced herself from Sandy Ryan being covered in red paint ahead of their world title fight in New York. Ryan was making the third defence of her WBO welterweight title at the Madison Square Garden Theater,

The “round zero” of the impending Sandy Ryan-Mikaela Mayer welterweight clash became a territorial dispute of sorts during their press conference today.