The IBF and WBO super-featherweight champion on her journey from all-girl metal band to boxing in Las Vegas, this weekend’s fight with Jennifer Han and a potential clash with Katie Taylor
Mikaela Mayer is used to surprising people. She joined an all-girl metal band at the age of 12, made her debut on bass guitar at the iconic Whisky A Go Go in Los Angeles, the venue where groups from The Doors to Guns N’ Roses had played, and went on numerous tours across America until she was 15.
Mayer is now one of the leading female fighters in the world and she has an unbreakable bond with Al Mitchell, her 77-year-old trainer. She is also the IBF and WBO super-featherweight champion who tore up every last tired misconception about women’s boxing last November in Las Vegas.