{"id":8102,"date":"2023-04-15T05:04:19","date_gmt":"2023-04-15T05:04:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/mikaela-mayer-will-fight-new-opponent-lucy-wildheart-after-christina-linardatou-fails-medical\/"},"modified":"2023-04-15T05:04:21","modified_gmt":"2023-04-15T05:04:21","slug":"mikaela-mayer-will-fight-new-opponent-lucy-wildheart-after-christina-linardatou-fails-medical","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/mikaela-mayer-will-fight-new-opponent-lucy-wildheart-after-christina-linardatou-fails-medical\/","title":{"rendered":"Mikaela Mayer will fight new opponent Lucy Wildheart after Christina Linardatou fails medical"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div data-reactid=\".1z2kl5hxnyy.0.0.0.1\">\n<figure class=\"gs-u-mt0 gs-u-mb-alt+ story-body__media story-body__media--figure qa-story-body-media story-body__media--lead\" data-reactid=\".1z2kl5hxnyy.0.0.0.1.$video-1\"><span class=\"gs-u-display-block story-body__media\" data-reactid=\".1z2kl5hxnyy.0.0.0.1.$video-1.0\"><span class=\"gs-u-display-block gs-o-responsive-image\" style=\"padding-bottom:56.25%;\" data-reactid=\".1z2kl5hxnyy.0.0.0.1.$video-1.0.0\"><noscript data-reactid=\".1z2kl5hxnyy.0.0.0.1.$video-1.0.0.1\"\/><\/span><\/span><figcaption class=\"gel-brevier gs-u-ph+ gs-u-pv-alt story-body__media__caption story-body__media__caption--video\" data-reactid=\".1z2kl5hxnyy.0.0.0.1.$video-1.1\">Mayer has her sights set on champion Taylor<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p role=\"introduction\" class=\"qa-introduction gel-pica-bold\" data-reactid=\".1z2kl5hxnyy.0.0.0.1.$paragraph-2\"><span data-reactid=\".1z2kl5hxnyy.0.0.0.1.$paragraph-2.0\">Former super-featherweight champion Mikaela Mayer will fight late replacement Lucy Wildheart on Saturday after Christina Linardatou failed a medical. <\/span><\/p>\n<div data-reactid=\".1z2kl5hxnyy.0.0.0.1.$paragraph-3\">\n<p class=\"\" data-reactid=\".1z2kl5hxnyy.0.0.0.1.$paragraph-3.0\"><span data-reactid=\".1z2kl5hxnyy.0.0.0.1.$paragraph-3.0.0\">Sweden&#8217;s Wildheart, 30, has stepped in on 24 hours&#8217; notice.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p class=\"\" data-reactid=\".1z2kl5hxnyy.0.0.0.1.$paragraph-4\"><span data-reactid=\".1z2kl5hxnyy.0.0.0.1.$paragraph-4.0\">American Mayer, 32, was due to face Linardatou, 34, at lightweight on the undercard of the heavyweight fight between Joe Joyce and Zhang Zhilei.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"\" data-reactid=\".1z2kl5hxnyy.0.0.0.1.$paragraph-5\"><span data-reactid=\".1z2kl5hxnyy.0.0.0.1.$paragraph-5.0\">But neither woman appeared at <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/sport\/boxing\/65278510\" class=\"story-body__internal-link\" title=\"\" data-reactid=\".1z2kl5hxnyy.0.0.0.1.$paragraph-5.$link-2\"><span data-reactid=\".1z2kl5hxnyy.0.0.0.1.$paragraph-5.$link-2.0\">Friday&#8217;s public weigh-in<\/span><\/a><span data-reactid=\".1z2kl5hxnyy.0.0.0.1.$paragraph-5.3\">.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"\" data-reactid=\".1z2kl5hxnyy.0.0.0.1.$paragraph-6\"><span data-reactid=\".1z2kl5hxnyy.0.0.0.1.$paragraph-6.0\">Greece&#8217;s Linardatou, 35, has twice been cleared by the British Boxing Board of Control to fight in the UK, most recently against Katie Taylor in 2019, but was unable pass her pre-fight medical. <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"\" data-reactid=\".1z2kl5hxnyy.0.0.0.1.$paragraph-7\"><span data-reactid=\".1z2kl5hxnyy.0.0.0.1.$paragraph-7.0\">Wildheart has just one defeat on her 11-fight record, is a regular contender in the lightweight division and is based in Essex.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"\" data-reactid=\".1z2kl5hxnyy.0.0.0.1.$paragraph-8\"><span data-reactid=\".1z2kl5hxnyy.0.0.0.1.$paragraph-8.0\">Mayer has won 17 fights and lost once since turning professional in 2017. <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"\" data-reactid=\".1z2kl5hxnyy.0.0.0.1.$paragraph-10\"><span data-reactid=\".1z2kl5hxnyy.0.0.0.1.$paragraph-10.0\">She <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/sport\/boxing\/63273496\" class=\"story-body__internal-link\" title=\"\" data-reactid=\".1z2kl5hxnyy.0.0.0.1.$paragraph-10.$link-2\"><span data-reactid=\".1z2kl5hxnyy.0.0.0.1.$paragraph-10.$link-2.0\">lost her IBF and WBO titles<\/span><\/a><span data-reactid=\".1z2kl5hxnyy.0.0.0.1.$paragraph-10.3\"> to Alycia Baumgardner at London&#8217;s O2 Arena in October. <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"\" data-reactid=\".1z2kl5hxnyy.0.0.0.1.$paragraph-11\"><span data-reactid=\".1z2kl5hxnyy.0.0.0.1.$paragraph-11.0\">Mayer had previously said she was looking for an immediate rematch with fellow American Baumgardner, having felt she should have won a close encounter against her rival. <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"\" data-reactid=\".1z2kl5hxnyy.0.0.0.1.$paragraph-12\"><span data-reactid=\".1z2kl5hxnyy.0.0.0.1.$paragraph-12.0\">Earlier this week, <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/sport\/av\/boxing\/65270414\" class=\"story-body__internal-link\" title=\"\" data-reactid=\".1z2kl5hxnyy.0.0.0.1.$paragraph-12.$link-2\"><span data-reactid=\".1z2kl5hxnyy.0.0.0.1.$paragraph-12.$link-2.0\">Mayer said she &#8220;would not beg&#8221; for a rematch<\/span><\/a><span data-reactid=\".1z2kl5hxnyy.0.0.0.1.$paragraph-12.3\"> with Baumgardner, and her focus is set on victory over Linardatou and then seeking a title fight against the champion Katie Taylor.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"\" data-reactid=\".1z2kl5hxnyy.0.0.0.1.$paragraph-13\"><span data-reactid=\".1z2kl5hxnyy.0.0.0.1.$paragraph-13.0\">The fight against Linardatou was a final eliminator to become mandatory challenger to Taylor&#8217;s WBC title and the interim title remains on the line on Saturday.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/sport\/boxing\/65278960?at_medium=RSS&#038;at_campaign=KARANGA\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mayer has her sights set on champion Taylor Former super-featherweight champion Mikaela Mayer will fight late replacement Lucy Wildheart on Saturday after Christina Linardatou failed a medical. Sweden&#8217;s Wildheart, 30, has stepped in on 24 hours&#8217; notice. American Mayer, 32, was due to face Linardatou, 34, at lightweight on the undercard of the heavyweight fight [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":8103,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[11],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8102"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8102"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8102\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8104,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8102\/revisions\/8104"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8103"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8102"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8102"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8102"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}