Irish legend Katie Taylor is expected to have one final fight to end her career — but Chantelle Cameron does not expect to be her final opponent.
Cameron remains the only professional fighter to have beaten Taylor, a result Taylor avenged in their rematch. A trilogy never materialised, though Cameron says she would take a third meeting. “One-hundred per cent,” Cameron told Sky Sports. “It’s one a piece, we both beat each other, we both took each other’s ‘0’s. The fight is, in my opinion, as a female trilogy, it’s the trilogy that makes sense.”
Despite that, Cameron does not see a trilogy happening. “Katie Taylor won’t take that as her swansong,” she said. “I’m the wrong opponent for that so it won’t happen, but I’m absolutely fine with that. I’ve accepted it and I’m looking forward to my future.”
Cameron is moving on in her career, stepping up to super-welterweight to challenge Michaela Kotaskova for the WBO title at 154 lbs. The fight, on Sunday live on Sky Sports, will be the first women’s world title on UK soil contested over three-minute rounds, as used in men’s boxing. “First woman to become undisputed in the UK and now the first woman to fight three-minute [rounds] for a world title, so I feel like I’m making my own history there and it’s special,” she said.
Cameron has her sights on becoming undisputed in a second weight class but accepts the unpredictability of boxing. “I would love to be undisputed in a second weight class. But what I’ve learned with boxing is it’s totally unpredictable. It’s hard to become undisputed because you need the fighters and the world champions to make the fight as well. There’s a lot of disappointments in boxing and you don’t always get what you want. So I’m not going to put pressure on or stress myself out over becoming undisputed in a second weight class. Do I think I can do it? Absolutely. But will it happen? Who knows?”
Watch Chantelle Cameron vs Michaela Kotaskova this Sunday, live on Sky Sports from 7pm.