Mikaela Mayer has never shied away from her war of words with Alycia Baumgardner.
The two Americans fight to unify the WBO, IBF and WBC super-featherweight world titles on the undercard of Claressa Shields vs Savannah Marshall on October 15, live on Sky Sports.
They have forged a ferocious rivalry themselves. “It comes with the territory. It’s a lot of drama. It’s a lot of stuff that normally I would excuse myself from in my everyday life,” Mayer told Sky Sports.
“But I understand that this is part of the job and it comes with the territory because this is entertainment. So I embrace it in that sense but I do it for a reason.”
She explained the roots of the hostility between the two champions. “She got the [WBC] belt so I started calling her out. That’s it,” Mayer said.