.Brett Okamoto, ESPN Personnel WriterSep 28, 2024, 12:07 AM ETCloseMMA correspondent for ESPN.com.Expert for "Mixed Martial Arts Live".Covered MMA for Las Vegas SunEnglish fighter Sandy Ryan accused Mikaela Mayer, her challenger in a name bout Friday evening in New York, of setting up a pre-fight act in which Ryan was actually struck through a paint can as she left her resort earlier in the evening.Ryan (7-2-1, 3 KOs) dropped her WBO welterweight name to Mayer (20-2, 5 KOs) through bulk decision, with the courts scoring the bout 95-95, 97-93 and 96-94. The leadup to the fight at Madison Square Landscape was actually profoundly individual for both, as Ryan had been actually working with Mayer's previous long time coach Kay Koroma. Mayer parted methods with Koroma when he determined to team up with Ryan, a relocation she saw as a betrayal.Editor's PicksAs Ryan left her resort for the place Friday, she was actually hit by an available paint can easily from an unidentified man. She claimed she really felt one thing "wreck" into her tummy, and afterwards observed a man in a hoodie go to an automobile and also drive away. Ryan was actually unimpaired and continued on to the site after altering clothes in her hotel room.She as well as her group informed ESPN they believed it was a member of Mayer's camp, an accusation Mayer has actually rejected." Mikaela Mayer is going to receive it," Ryan stated prior to the battle. "It was actually certainly a setup from her group. What else will it be actually? It is actually come to be actually. I am actually coming from the U.K. That understood what opportunity I was actually appearing of my lodging to head to the site?" Mayer, of Colorado Springs, Colorado, rebounded coming from a split selection loss to Natasha Jones in January. Ryan was actually looking for her second succeed this year.