{"id":871224,"date":"2026-08-25T19:04:15","date_gmt":"2026-08-25T19:04:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/871224\/"},"modified":"2026-08-25T19:04:15","modified_gmt":"2026-08-25T19:04:15","slug":"mikaela-mayer-spells-out-which-opponents-will-follow-chantelle-cameron","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/871224\/","title":{"rendered":"Mikaela Mayer spells out which opponents will follow Chantelle Cameron"},"content":{"rendered":"

There is no animosity between Mikaela Mayer and Chantelle Cameron this weekend; their Birmingham clash sells itself.
The well-matched junior middleweights meet for Mayer\u2019s WBA and WBC belts, alongside Cameron’s WBO strap, at bp pulse LIVE in Birmingham, England. The 22-2 (5 KOs) Mayer, who trains out of Las Vegas, is coming off a pair of wins over Sandy Ryan and victory over Mary Spencer. She always felt a bout with Northampton, England’s Cameron could happen.
\u201cFor sure,\u201d Mayer said. \u201cWe\u2019ve stayed cool throughout the years because we knew each other from the amateurs. So she was fighting at 140 and I was at 47 at this time. And we\u2019ve talked and she said she was going to come up to \u201947 and we always thought, \u2018Okay, we\u2019ll probably eventually have to get in the ring together.\u2019 But we always thought that would be a great fight for the sport.\u201d
And while Mayer has not always gone through her fights without making rivals, most-notably after a well-documented row over her former coach and opponent Ryan, there has been nothing but mutual respect between Mayer and Cameron.
\u201cNo, we\u2019re cool,\u201d Mayer said.
\u201cI mean, like the first media day we had with MVP, we had to do a million face-offs. We had to fly to Orlando, do a million face-offs and a bunch of media stuff. We hung out the whole time.
\u201cI told them, I was like, \u2018This can never happen with an opponent I have a rivalry with. Okay, you guys get like one or two face-offs max.\u2019 So we must have done 100.
\u201cSo it\u2019s cool. You know, it is what it is. We\u2019ve both had similar careers, we have kind of that same kind of mentality when it comes to fighting and wanting to get in there and fight the best, and we have similar come-forward styles, aggressive, high work-rate. So I think it\u2019s a perfect matchup.\u201d
Mayer, who also holds titles at 147lbs, said there is a rematch clause, so if this weekend produces a close fight, they could well run it back. But Mayer also still has her own ambitions. She was recently mentioned by Claressa Shields <\/a>as a possible opponent in the near future.
\u201cYeah, and that\u2019s not the first time,\u201d Mayer said. \u201cOur teams have already discussed us going at it and potentially fighting each other. One-sixty is her minimum that she\u2019s willing to go down to. So, you know, if I want the fight, I\u2019ve got to accept that and go to 160, which I\u2019m not a 160-pounder, I\u2019m barely a 154-pounder, but I\u2019d be willing to do that for a megafight against Claressa Shields. And we\u2019ll see. She threw out Lauren Price\u2019s name also, that\u2019s the fight I want next. Really, that\u2019s my fight because she\u2019s got the other belt at 147. Her and I, we\u2019ll fight for undisputed if I can get that fight with her. So I don\u2019t really want her to go fight Claressa Shields because that holds me back from challenging her for undisputed.
\u201cBut again, it is what it is. People are going to go and do what they do and take the money. So if that happens, maybe I\u2019ll be next.\u201d
Does that mean Claressa could fight Tamm Thibeault, and Mayer could face Price with the winners eventually fighting?
\u201cIn a perfect world,\u201d Mayer said. \u201cThat\u2019s three different promoters, three different networks, so many different moving parts. You never know in boxing. So I always just take one fight at a time. And I do have a rematch clause with Chantelle. So that\u2019ll sort of keep me busy for the rest of the year.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"There is no animosity between Mikaela Mayer and Chantelle Cameron this weekend; their Birmingham clash sells itself.The well-matched…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":871225,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[447],"tags":[703,711,710,49,48,13039,78465,82],"class_list":["post-871224","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-boxing","tag-boxing","tag-boxing-news","tag-boxingscene","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-chantelle-cameron","tag-mikaela-mayer","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/871224","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=871224"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/871224\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/871225"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=871224"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=871224"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=871224"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}