{"id":872340,"date":"2026-08-26T17:12:28","date_gmt":"2026-08-26T17:12:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/872340\/"},"modified":"2026-08-26T17:12:28","modified_gmt":"2026-08-26T17:12:28","slug":"mikaela-mayer-vs-chantelle-cameron-five-years-from-influencers-to-queens-of-womens-boxing-for-upstart-promoters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/872340\/","title":{"rendered":"Mikaela Mayer vs Chantelle Cameron: Five years from influencers to queens of women’s boxing for upstart promoters"},"content":{"rendered":"

On 29 August, one of the feistiest upstarts in modern boxing will celebrate a fifth anniversary.<\/p>\n

On the same date in 2021, Most Valuable Promotions’ headline bout for its inaugural show in Cleveland, Ohio, featured co-founder and online influencer Jake Paul taking on MMA fighter Tyron Woodley<\/a> in the boxing ring.<\/p>\n

MVP’s second event, just under four months later in Tampa, Florida, was a Paul-Woodley rematch.<\/p>\n

For a long time, MVP’s most notable event featured Paul – regarded as the face of YouTuber boxing – fighting Mike Tyson.<\/a><\/p>\n

It came at a time when Tyson was so far over the hill that the hill could not be seen in the rearview mirror.<\/p>\n

MVP’s reputation developed as it put together cards with names and output that were anathema to boxing purists.<\/p>\n

The five-year anniversary card, however, shows a side of MVP which has emerged alongside what some would consider its gaudiness.<\/p>\n

And perhaps what takes place this weekend offers a better indication of the promotion’s future than the fights that have gone before.<\/p>\n

The main card features five women’s bouts, headlined by Mikaela Mayer taking on Chantelle Cameron to unify the WBA, WBC and WBO light-middleweight belts.<\/p>\n

The primary support will showcase Caroline Dubois defending her WBC and WBO lightweight titles against Amelia Moore.<\/p>\n

MVP, for years dismissed by critics as a snot-nosed upstart of promotion, could now be regarded as a major player and the primary UK promoter of women’s boxing.<\/p>\n

“Respect, I think, is the biggest change. I’ve seen and felt it,” Dubois told BBC Sport.<\/p>\n

“I remember coming into the scene of the sporting world and if you say you’re a female boxer, people will look at you like ‘ah’ \u2013 but now people are like ‘OK, let’s see you fight’ \u2013 it’s not a joke, a gimmick, a side caricature. It’s part of the real deal.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"On 29 August, one of the feistiest upstarts in modern boxing will celebrate a fifth anniversary. On the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":872341,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[447],"tags":[703,49,48,82],"class_list":["post-872340","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-boxing","tag-boxing","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/872340","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=872340"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/872340\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/872341"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=872340"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=872340"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=872340"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}