Cameron: I Showed I’m A Proper Fighter; Put My Belts Up Against The Best And Came Out On Top

The idea for years was that Chantelle Cameron was a pound-for-pound star within the making.

Her previous two wins have quickly superior the unbeaten Englishwoman close to the highest of a really brief checklist of the game’s perfect fighters on the earth. On the very least, she is undoubtedly one of the best 140-pound fighter on the planet.

A agency reminder was delivered in her ten-round win over the legendary Katie Taylor this previous weekend on the street at 3Arena in Dublin, Eire. Cameron efficiently defended her undisputed junior welterweight championship six months after having earned that standing with a well-earned victory over then-fully unified welterweight queen Jessica McCaskill, who dropped again down in weight for his or her ten-round battle final November 5 in Abu Dhabi.

“In my final combat, I beat McCaskill. I defended my belts once more towards Katie Taylor,” Cameron identified throughout her in-ring DAZN post-fight interview. “I simply beat two undisputed champions.”

In each situations, McCaskill and Taylor fell wanting turning into two-division undisputed champions—a standing Cameron (18-0, 8KOs) subsequent craves.

“I’ll communicate to my staff and see what’s subsequent however I’m sick of conserving my belts,” famous Cameron. “I wish to go for some extra belts.”

Cameron made the fifth total protection of not less than one junior welterweight title courting again to her October 2020 WBC title win over unbeaten Adrian Dos Santos Araujo, who vacated the belt on the scales after lacking weight by greater than 5 kilos. She added the IBF strap with a ten-round win over Mary McGee of their October 2021 unification bout, then the vacant WBA and WBO titles in her win over McCaskill final November.

An sudden superfight emerged for the 32-year-old from Northampton, England when Taylor (22-1, 6KOs) was in want of an opponent for her scheduled and lengthy overdue Might 20 homecoming. The Olympic Gold medalist, two-division and reigning undisputed light-weight champion was as a consequence of have a rematch versus Amanda Serrano, who was compelled to withdraw as a consequence of a previous harm that by no means totally healed in time to proceed.

Cameron leaped on the alternative, properly conscious of going through a partisan crowd closely in favor of one in every of Eire’s most celebrated sports activities icons.

“It was unbelievable. I’m simply unfortunate they weren’t for me,” famous Cameron, who exhibited nerves of metal all through the week and particularly within the ring. “However Katie’s received an ideal following. It’s an ideal nation for boxing. We had combat week though I used to be the underdog and received a whole lot of boos.

“However I confirmed I’m a correct fighter. I introduced my belts right here, I put my belts up towards the pound for pound greatest and got here out on prime.”

Preliminary plans name for a Cameron-Taylor rematch to happen later this yr, as Taylor already knowledgeable Matchroom Boxing’s Eddie Hearn—who promotes each fighters—of her burning want to run it again.

Jake Donovan is a senior author for BoxingScene.com. Twitter: @JakeNDaBox