.Brett Okamoto, ESPN Staff WriterSep 28, 2024, 12:07 AM ETCloseMMA columnist for ESPN.com.Expert for "MMA Live".Covered MMA for Las Vegas SunEnglish pugilist Sandy Ryan charged Mikaela Mayer, her enemy in a title battle Friday night in New york city, of coordinating a pre-fight feat through which Ryan was actually struck by a paint can easily as she left her hotels and resort earlier in the evening.Ryan (7-2-1, 3 KOs) dropped her WBO welterweight title to Mayer (20-2, 5 KOs) by bulk decision, with the courts racking up the match 95-95, 97-93 as well as 96-94. The leadup to the battle at Madison Square Landscape was actually deeply private for both, as Ryan had been dealing with Mayer's previous longtime instructor Kay Koroma. Mayer parted ways with Koroma when he determined to collaborate with Ryan, a technique she viewed as a betrayal.Editor's PicksAs Ryan left her lodging for the venue Friday, she was actually struck through an available paint can easily coming from an unknown guy. She mentioned she experienced something "shatter" right into her tummy, and after that viewed a man in a hoodie go to a vehicle and also dispel. Ryan was actually uninjured as well as continued on to the site after altering clothes in her lodging room.She as well as her crew told ESPN they thought it belonged to Mayer's camping ground, a complaint Mayer has actually refuted." Mikaela Mayer is actually going to get it," Ryan claimed prior to the fight. "It was certainly a create from her staff. What else would it be actually? It's reached be actually. I'm from the U.K. Who understood what time I was actually emerging of my hotel to visit the site?" Mayer, of Colorado Springs, Colorado, recovered coming from a split selection reduction to Natasha Jones in January. Ryan was actually searching for her second gain this year.