The Woodland Hills native returned home for her first boxing match in Southern California in four years.
Mayer was well aware of Han’s 20 years of boxing experience as a former featherweight champion, but she also knows her from her amateur days. Han’s previous bout was a unanimous decision loss to undisputed lightweight champion Katie Taylor in September.
“It’s no secret that I wanted to continue to unify,” Mayer said. “I wanted Alycia Baumgardner. I wanted Hyun Mi Choi. That was my first choice. They’re not quite ready to step up to that, I guess, so we had to look at another direction.” Australian Andrew Moloney had a dominant performance against Gilberto Mendoza, forcing the referee to stop the eight-round bantamweight bout with 32 seconds left.