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A few months have passed, but former world champion Mikaela Mayer is still very firm on her position that an unjust decision took place in the October grudge fight with Alycia Baumgardner.
In a close boxing match, one judge scored it 97-93 for Mayer, while the other two tallied 96-95 for Baumgardner.
Baumgardner walked away with the WBC, IBF, WBO world titles. Mayer lost her two belts and her undefeated record.
Mayer explains that she saw her loss coming when the scores were being announced.
“When they announced that second score for her, I knew right away they were going to rob me,” Mayer said to BBC. “I’d never been in that position before so I wasn’t sure exactly how to handle it.
“You think that your life and your story is now theirs. That they’ll go on to accomplish everything that you wanted to do. Or maybe another scenario is everything that was said in the trash talk was right and everything I said was wrong. Those scenarios are just running through my head all day long and basically what happens is my heart just drops to my toes every 10 minutes of the day. How am I going to get through another day of this?”
There was no rematch clause in place, with Baumgardner looking at other opportunities.
Mayer is now looking ahead to positioning herself for big fights and more world titles.
“I’ve always wanted to put on the biggest fights possible and this time I came up on the short end of that,” said Mayer.
“But it doesn’t change the goal. I still want to make the biggest fights possible. I still feel that’s important and I can’t preach that and then. When it’s time for me to do it and believe it and walk the walk, I can’t sit back and cower. I know one day I will wake up and say I’m glad that happened. If it didn’t happen I wouldn’t be where I am today. Eventually it turns out OK and it’s not the end I thought it was.”