Mikaela Mayer joined Brian Custer’s podcast to talk about her upcoming plans, fights that have been difficult to make, and the ones she expects to the on the way as she waits for an opportunity to go undisputed. Here are some excerpts of what she had to say below with the full interview in the link at the top.
Mayer on who she’ll fight next
“It’s no secret I got into the ring at the Dubois vs Harper fight in London a few weeks ago, against Chantelle Cameron. Chantelle Cameron just won the belt I had to vacate ‘cause I hold the belt at 147,
as well. I had to pick and choose since I have two belts at ‘54 I vacated that, Chantelle fought for it and I got in the ring and said ‘let’s do it.’
“I mean, I’ve always wanted a fight with Chantelle, I always thought that would be a great fight. We have come forward styles so I know it’ll be super entertaining. So while I wait for Lauren Price so I can go undisputed with her and other fights that just don’t seem to be happening — people just don’t seem to want to move as quickly as I do — but I’ve always wanted to fight Chantelle so I think that’s a great fight in the meantime.”
On if she thinks she’ll get a Price fight this year
“I don’t know. I really don’t know. We’ve been trying to negotiate with her and Ben Shalom and all these for so long and we have a whole date — everything was negotiated for her to come out. I was surprised they agreed to send Lauren Price out here to Vegas, it was supposed to happen last July. It was the last fight Top Rank had on ESPN, the last fight Boxxer had on Sky Sports, and so we had the money behind it to do it. And I know what happened, I don’t know if Ben Shalom wasn’t including Lauren Price in negotiations but she decided ‘I’m not doing that.’…Since then we just haven’t been able to come to a deal.”
On the potential for her to fight Claressa Shields
“It’s a very possible fight. I’ve never been hard to make fights with…I’m here for it. The biggest issue right now is her making her way down to 160. S0 when she does that, let’s go.”
On Alycia Baumgardner’s latest performance and wanting a rematch
“I thought she looked really good the first half of the fight, the first four, five rounds…But then she kind of fell off. She was really good in moments but I don’t necessarily think Alycia Baumgardner is a three-minute round fighter, and that’s okay. I just don’t necessarily think that she is.
“It’s one of the reasons why I go back and forth with the three-minute rounds because this young generation, I don’t know if they have the attention span for that long of a fight. Now you can say she adjusted, but it didn’t really feel like an adjustment based on strategy, it felt like an adjustment based on fatigue.
“Of course I want a rematch. Listen, she talks about wanting the biggest fights, so do I. She talks about wanting to be in super fights, of course we all want to be in these super fights. So I’m confused as to why you’re leaving this super fight, between her and I, this rematch [on the table]. If that’s really what she wants then hi, I’m right here.”
