Mikaela Mayer will fight Chantelle Cameron next weekend, but unlike her English opponent, she has accepted that she won\u2019t get to fight Irish great Katie Taylor.<\/p>\n
Cameron split two memorable fights with Taylor, who is expected to bow out of the sport after her September 5 fight against Flora Pili.<\/p>\n
Mayer, 36, naturally hoped she would one day do battle with Taylor, but now knows that dream fight will not happen.<\/p>\n
\u201cI always thought we would fight and I always wanted that fight. And I think I just assumed it would always happen,\u201d Mayer told BoxingScene.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cAnd so I also knew that Katie was sort of in the driver\u2019s seat when it came to who she wanted to fight so it was like, \u2018Oh, no, it\u2019ll happen down the road, but it\u2019ll happen when it\u2019s time when Katie seeks me out or something like that.\u2019\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cI don\u2019t know, but I think ultimately, I probably stayed at 130 a little bit too long and missed that Katie train, because when I finally moved up to 135 and I won the interim belt, they told me I would be mandatory for the winner of Taylor-[Amanda] Serrano, except they had a trilogy. So when I heard that, I was like, \u2018Cool.\u2019<\/p>\n
\u201cBut then, when I heard the rematch was happening,\u2019 I was like, \u2018I\u2019m not going to sit around and wait. I don\u2019t have the time. I\u2019m going to continue on.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n
It was then when she landed the fight with Liverpool\u2019s Natasha Jonas and there had been whispers that Mayer, 22-2 (5 KOs), had been in the frame for the September 5 date at Croke Park. Not so, said Mayer.<\/p>\n
\u201cI was sitting out crossing my fingers like everyone else,\u201d Mayer said. \u201cI would have loved to get that call. But, you know, that would have been pretty, pretty ballsy of Katie. I feel like I\u2019m in my prime.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cI\u2019ve had some really great fights the last few fights and this is her last fight.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cSo I wasn\u2019t sure that she’d want to take on someone like me. And, again, I know that she had the privilege to kind of decide who she wanted to fight.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cI was crossing my fingers, but I was realistic about it.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Mikaela Mayer will fight Chantelle Cameron next weekend, but unlike her English opponent, she has accepted that she…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":863428,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[571],"tags":[64,63,802,1920,6653,8200,149629,85],"class_list":["post-863427","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-boxing","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-boxing","tag-boxing-news","tag-boxingscene","tag-katie-taylor","tag-mikaela-mayer","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/863427","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=863427"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/863427\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/863428"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=863427"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=863427"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=863427"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}