{"id":752863,"date":"2026-08-28T20:44:10","date_gmt":"2026-08-28T20:44:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/752863\/"},"modified":"2026-08-28T20:44:10","modified_gmt":"2026-08-28T20:44:10","slug":"mikaela-mayer-and-chantelle-cameron-butt-heads-at-final-face-off","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/752863\/","title":{"rendered":"Mikaela Mayer and Chantelle Cameron butt heads at final face-off"},"content":{"rendered":"

Mikaela Mayer and Chantelle Cameron butted heads in their final face-off before Saturday’s light-middleweight unification bout in Birmingham.<\/p>\n

WBA and WBC champion Mayer and Briton Cameron<\/a> had been cordial during the build-up but tensions spilled over at Friday’s weigh-in.<\/p>\n

As the pair came together to face-off at BP Pulse Arena, Cameron pushed her head into Mayer’s and the American held her ground, pushing back before they ended up side-by-side and exchanging verbal insults.<\/p>\n

“She isn’t intimidating me,” Cameron said after security stepped in. “All that yapping and getting in my face – just watch tomorrow.”<\/p>\n

Mayer, 36, claimed Cameron, 35, had said she would be “too slow”, something the WBO champion dismissed.<\/p>\n

“That’s in your head, you’re deluded. Shut your mouth, you’re so deluded and you’re making things up because you don’t believe in yourself,” Cameron responded.<\/p>\n

“You’re going to get humbled.”<\/p>\n

After being pulled apart for a second time, Mayer added: “I didn’t know this Cameron existed, she’s going to need it.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Mikaela Mayer and Chantelle Cameron butted heads in their final face-off before Saturday’s light-middleweight unification bout in Birmingham.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":752864,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[2560,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-752863","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-boxing","tag-boxing","tag-sports","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/752863","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=752863"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/752863\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/752864"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=752863"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=752863"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=752863"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}