Mikaela Mayer vs. Maiva Hamadouche Fight Details - What To Expect

Latest Update / Oct 29,2021

The Mikaela Mayer vs. Maiva Hamadouche fight will feature WBO champion Mikaela Mayer against IBF champion Maiva Hamadouche in junior lightweight title unification on Friday, November 5, at the Theater at Virgin Hotels in Las Vegas. The scheduled bout is going to take place for ten rounds in the Top Rank Boxing fight card. In addition, the Ring belt is also on the line. In the co-feature, Hassan N'Dam will take on Janibek Alimkhanuly in a ten-round fight at middleweight. On the undercard, Adan Ochoa will take on Adam Lopez at featherweight.

 

Top Rank chairman Bob Arum said, "Mikaela Mayer is quickly becoming the face of female boxing, and she should be part of the first Top Rank on ESPN female world championship main event. From the moment she won her world title, she asked for unification fights and the biggest challenges. Hamadouche certainly fits that criteria, and she is not coming from France to give up her title without one heck of a fight."

 

Mikaela Mayer vs. Maiva Hamadouche Fight Details

 

Mikaela Mayer is ranked in the top five on the pound-for-pound list. She rose to stardom following her fight at the Rio Olympics nearly six years ago. A couple of years after her professional debut, she made her mark on the Tyson Fury-Tom Schwarz undercard. In July of last year, Mayer defeated Helen Joseph by unanimous decision in the first female main event since the latest incarnation of Top Rank on ESPN boxing four years ago. On Halloween last year, she overwhelmingly won against longtime champion Ewa Brodnicka to get the WBO belt. In June, she made her initial title defense in Las Vegas at the Virgin Hotels and defeated two-weight world champion Erica Farias in ten rounds as an undercard on Inoue vs. Dasmarinas.

 

Mayer said, "This is the big fight I have wanted and the fight that I have been working so hard for. My prior fights were all important because I needed those wins to get me in this position. But THIS is the fight that will rocket my career or set me way back, and I have no intention of going back. The stakes are high, but I have worked hard, and I am fully prepared to capitalize on this opportunity to become a unified world champion."

 

Maiva Hamadouche is from France and has held the IBF belt for the last five years. This run has included more than five successful title defenses and an appearance for her home country at the Tokyo Olympics. She is the third longest-reigning champion of the world in female boxing and gets back to the pro game after a layoff of more than ten months. The boxer knocked out Italian Nina Pavlovic last year in Milan, Italy. This extended her four consecutive knockout wins. Hamadouche said, "I will arrive with my belt and leave with hers. My promise is to give Mikaela Mayer a war. She better start preparing to mourn the loss of her title."

 

Mikaela Mayer vs. Maiva Hamadouche Fight History

 

The Mikaela Mayer vs. Maiva Hamadouche fight has been in the works since the last win of Mayer. It was a unanimous decision to win over Erica Farias this year at the exact venue that will host the biggest fight of her developing career. Mayer is a US Olympian. The boxer's last couple of fights have supported the pound-for-pound entrant and three-division titlist Naoya Inoue. The upcoming fight with Hamadouche will be her second career headliner.  This is after she headlined an ESPN telecast in a ten-round victory over Helen Joseph last July at the MGM Grand Conference Center. The boxer from Colorado Springs will fight for the sixth consecutive time in Nevada and her fourth straight match in Vegas.

 

Hamadouche will make her seventh defense of her IBF belt. This also serves as her US debut and her debut career fight outside Europe. The long-reigning champion from France claimed her part of the junior lightweight crown in a ten-round victory over Jennifer Salinas in November five years ago. The boxer has obtained stoppage victories in seven of her last eight matches since then. This includes more than four knockouts among her title defenses. The agreed-upon fight with Mayer was put on hold until the last part of this year. The boxer was already committed to showing up for France in the postponed Tokyo Olympics, which took place in the summer of this year. Her time on amateur boxing's highest stage was short. She lost an opening-round decision to Finland's experienced boxer Mira Potkonen. The latter went on to create history as the oldest boxer in history to get a medal. She won an Olympic bronze.

 

In her latest fight, Hamadouche scored a knockout win over Nina Pavlovic last year on the road in Milan, Italy. The upcoming fight with Mayer will be the sixth career fight on the road for the boxer who turned pro nearly nine years ago.

 

Janibek Alimkhanuly vs Hassan N’Dam

 

Janibek is ranked as one of the top middleweights by the WBO and gets back to Virgin Hotels in Las Vegas, which was the venue of his breakthrough win. In June of this year, he won against former world champion Rob Brant. Brant's corner halted the bout before the end of the match. The boxer is from Zilandy, Kazakhstan, and is an Olympian. He has knocked out four consecutive rivals dating back to a couple of years. N'Dam is a very young professional from Cameroon. He held the WBA middleweight world belt four years ago and was challenged for world championships on some other occasions. After a couple of defeats at super middleweight, he returns to the middleweight ranks. He recently defeated the formidable Martin Murray through a majority decision.

 

Adam Lopez vs Adan Ochoa

 

In an eight-round match, featherweight boxer Adam Lopez from Glendale, California, will fight against veteran Adan Ochoa. Lopez is known as the Glendale Gatti for his all-action fights. He is seeking to bounce back from a narrow majority decision loss against former world champion Isaac Dogboe. Ochoa has rebounded from last year's decision defeat to Edward Vazquez with the first-round victory over Dominican veteran Angel Luna this year.

 

Mikaela Mayer vs. Maiva Hamadouche Boxer Details