{"id":278138,"date":"2025-11-12T10:15:44","date_gmt":"2025-11-12T10:15:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/278138\/"},"modified":"2025-11-12T10:15:44","modified_gmt":"2025-11-12T10:15:44","slug":"chantelle-cameron-ex-world-champion-wants-to-fight-for-couple-more-years","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/278138\/","title":{"rendered":"Chantelle Cameron: Ex-world champion wants to fight for ‘couple more years’"},"content":{"rendered":"

Cameron has won 21 of her 22 professional fights – her only defeat coming in a rematch with Ireland’s Katie Taylor in 2023 after beating her six months earlier.<\/p>\n

She was upgraded from interim world champion in September after Taylor told the WBC she was taking time away from the sport.<\/p>\n

“The last two years I’ve been chasing the trilogy [fight] that was never going to happen and that meant holding on to the WBC route,” Cameron said.<\/p>\n

“I could have been chasing Mikaela Mayer, the Lauren Prices, [Alycia] Baumgardners – there’s so many big names – but I wanted the trilogy that much and wanted to settle the score, it got me stuck in a bit of mud. <\/p>\n

“I just want a crack at one of the world champions but at the minute, everyone’s tied up again, so it’s a little bit frustrating.”<\/p>\n

Women fighters have been campaigning for the longer rounds for the past couple of years<\/a>, but the WBC says research shows they are at greater risk from concussion.<\/p>\n

Cameron, however, said a change to the rules would be better for boxers and fans alike.<\/p>\n

“I train three minutes, I spar three minutes, and then I get in the ring and I’m doing two minutes and I don’t feel I have enough time to do the damage I want to do.<\/p>\n

“Every boxer wants stoppages on their record because that’s what the fans want to see as well. My style is fan-friendly as it is, but with three minutes it will be more fan-friendly.<\/p>\n

“There’s pros and cons, but as a woman, it should be our decision. If you’re an amateur going into pros, you’re actually going backwards because you’re doing two-minute rounds.”<\/p>\n

Chantelle Cameron was speaking to BBC Radio Northampton’s Annabel Amos and Graham McKechnie<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Cameron has won 21 of her 22 professional fights – her only defeat coming in a rematch with…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":278139,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[447],"tags":[703,49,48,82],"class_list":{"0":"post-278138","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-boxing","8":"tag-boxing","9":"tag-ca","10":"tag-canada","11":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/278138","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=278138"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/278138\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/278139"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=278138"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=278138"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=278138"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}