Mikaela Mayer: “Anybody who knows me knows I want to fight Lauren Price. I absolutely want to fight her; she needs to tell her people to get on the phone, and let’s make this fight happen.”
Mikaela Mayer: “Anybody who knows me knows I want to fight Lauren Price. I absolutely want to fight her; she needs to tell her people to get on the phone, and let’s make this fight happen.”
Mikaela Mayer is back in the UK. A busy media schedule that started the second that she landed on Thursday. This morning was no different for a fighter who knows how to sell a fight perhaps as good as anyone in the sport. A few hours sleep and her daily grind started all over again. “I don’t feel too bad,” Mayer told me over Zoom trying to fight the effects if jet lag. “I only slept for four hours last night, but I’m ok.”
Mayer is back in London for the first-ever Most Valuable Promotions show on UK soil. A Massive all-female card that has Ellie Scotney going for undisputed, Caroline Dubois and Terri Harper settling their differences, and Chantelle Cameron looking to crown herself a two-division world champion. Mayer is another recent addition to that ever-growing MVP roster.
“They have a lot of girls for me to fight,” Mayer says of why she signed with the Jake Paul led promotional outfit. “They have a good stable of fighters, and it’s still growing. They have the networks. They have the backing. They have ESPN, Sky Sports, and Netflix. They have a passion for women’s boxing. They want to grow and develop it. It will create more big build-ups and more rivalries. Most of the women are under one stable now, and it’s going to make it a lot easier to make the fights that we want.”
“I fear for the women who aren’t signed with MVP,” Mayer added. “A lot of these girls, I feel, would be better suited to MVP. I see the future as being with MVP, where you will need to be if you want the best fights.”
Mayer had a highly succesful near decade long run with Bob Arum and Top Rank, and Mayer is appreciative of what they did for her career. “It was sad to have to part with Top Rank. There is no animosity. There is no bad blood. They understand. They want me to make the most of my last run. It will be the last contract I will sign. Six fights. I want to make the most of my career, make the money and make the big fights. It’s all good, and I wouldn’t be where I am without Top Rank. They promoted me well, and we had nine great years together.”
The three-division world champion will have her first fight with MVP in the summer and logic would dictate the unified world welterweight champion Lauren Price would be next for her. Mayer holds the WBO 147 bauble, and a fight with Price would be for undisputed status at 147. But it does seem a long way off. Price has even said that Mayer does not want to fight her, something which Mayer strongly disputes.
“It’s so confusing when she is all of a sudden coming out with these statements,” Mayer says. “The only thing I can think of why she is saying that, because it’s obviously not true, is that someone on her team is feeding her these lies. We have been in negotiations. They pulled out of the deal to fight last July in Vegas. We gave them all the numbers her team asked for. We gave them everything they wanted, and then they pulled out. They then came back with a poor offer full of stipulations to fight in Wales. It was a disrespectful amount of money to offer me to go over there. I would never say that she doesn’t want to fight me; I just think she doesn’t know what’s going on. But for her to come out and say I don’t want to fight her, just shows how disconnected she is with the negotiations. Anybody who knows me knows I want to fight Lauren Price. I absolutely want to fight her; she needs to tell her people to get on the phone, and let’s make this fight happen. Just call MVP, it’s not that hard. It’s frustrating, it’s not insulting, because I have never given anyone a reason to think that I wouldn’t fight her. I just feel bad for her.”
Mayer is not short of options. A possible fight with Claressa Shields has been in the air in recent months, and things were seemingly moving in the right direction for a fight between the pair later this year. But there is no talk that Shields could fight Lauren Price or a number of other fighters rather than Mayer.
“In my mind, it’s still likely,” Mayer says of a potential fight with Shields. “But there is a lot of back-and-forth now. I don’t really know what she wants to do. But I do know that she needs to start working her way down in weight to even make that fight possible. I will stay busy in the meantime, but I am here when she is ready.”
Mayer will return in August, and will be ringside on Sunday at the Olympia when Chantelle Cameron fights for the WBO world super-welterweight title agaisnt Michaela Kotaskova. Cameron, alongside Price, is a likely opponent for Mayer in the summer. “Ideally, it would be Chantelle and Lauren this year.” Recent words suggest one is far more likely than the other.
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4th Apr 2026
