{"id":236325,"date":"2025-10-31T17:37:10","date_gmt":"2025-10-31T17:37:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/236325\/"},"modified":"2025-10-31T17:37:10","modified_gmt":"2025-10-31T17:37:10","slug":"chantelle-cameron-gives-up-wbc-world-title-over-lack-of-equality-in-boxing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/236325\/","title":{"rendered":"Chantelle Cameron gives up WBC world title over lack of equality in boxing"},"content":{"rendered":"

Britain’s Chantelle Cameron has vacated her WBC light-welterweight world title in protest at not being able to compete under the same rules as male fighters.<\/p>\n

In women’s professional boxing title fights are usually over 10 rounds, each of two minutes, while men’s title bouts are 12 rounds of three minutes.<\/p>\n

“Women’s boxing has come a long way, but there’s still progress to be made,” said 34-year-old Cameron.<\/p>\n

“I’ve always believed in equality, and that includes the choice to fight equal rounds, equal opportunities, and equal respect. <\/p>\n

“I’m proud of my accomplishment in becoming a WBC champion, but it’s time to take a stand for what’s right and for the future of the sport.”<\/p>\n

Cameron was elevated from ‘interim’ champion to full WBC light-welterweight world champion last month<\/a> after Ireland’s Katie Taylor informed the sanctioning body she planned to take time away from boxing.<\/p>\n

Since turning professional in 2017, Cameron has won 21 of 22 fights, is a former undisputed light-welterweight world champion and has also held a world title at lightweight.<\/p>\n

She handed Taylor her first career defeat in May 2023 to become undisputed champion, before losing the rematch six months later.<\/p>\n

A trilogy bout had been mandated, but Taylor chose not to pursue it as she takes a break from the sport.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Britain’s Chantelle Cameron has vacated her WBC light-welterweight world title in protest at not being able to compete…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":236326,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[2560,101,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-236325","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-boxing","8":"tag-boxing","9":"tag-sports","10":"tag-uk","11":"tag-united-kingdom","12":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/236325","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=236325"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/236325\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/236326"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=236325"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=236325"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=236325"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}