In the third fight on the Lomachenko-Linares undercard, Mikaela Mayer remained undefeated by beating up Baby Nansen during much of their one-sided, six-round lightweight bout.
Los Angeles’ Mayer, a 2016 Olympian, pushed the action from the opening bell and forced Nansen to fight off her back foot for almost all 12 minutes. The game Nansen tried her best to move and fend off Mayer, but her taller, stronger opponent was busier and more accurate throughout their fight.
The 27-year-old Mayer improved to 5-0. New Zealand’s Nansen (6-3-1), who hasn’t recorded a knockout as a professional, avoided losing by knockout for the first time in her 3½-year pro career, but accomplished little else.
Mayer landed an overhand right just before the end of the fourth round that forced Nansen to hold until the bell sounded.
Mayer picked up where she left off early in the fifth round, when she bloodied Nansen’s nose after landing a hard right hand. Mayer continued landing flush punches to Nansen’s head throughout the fifth round.
Mayer clocked Nansen with two left hooks in the first minute of the sixth round. She wobbled Nansen with an overhand right later in the sixth, but couldn’t finish her off.
In the bout before Mayer’s victory, lightweight contender Jamel Herring eventually followed his new trainer’s instructions to “get him out of here” by stopping Juan Pablo Sanchez in the fifth round of a scheduled eight-rounder.
Herring (17-2, 10 KOs), a 2012 Olympian from Coram, New York, won by fifth-round technical knockout when referee Anthony Chiarantano stopped the action because he had drilled Sanchez with a flurry of unanswered punches. The fight was stopped at 1:28 of the fifth round, with Sanchez still standing.
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