Chantelle Cameron says she doesn’t expect Katie Taylor to pick a trilogy as her farewell fight — even though she’d be willing to make it happen.
Cameron remains the only pro to have beaten Taylor, a result Taylor reversed in their rematch. Cameron told Sky Sports she would take a third bout “one-hundred per cent,” arguing that with both having beaten the other and ending each other’s unbeaten records, a trilogy would make sense as one of the defining rivalries in women’s boxing.
Despite that, Cameron doubts Taylor will choose her for a swansong. “Katie Taylor won’t take that as her swansong,” she said, adding she accepts that and is focused on the next phase of her own career.
That next step is a move up to super-welterweight to challenge Michaela Kotaskova for the WBO 154 lb title. The fight, live on Sky Sports this Sunday from 7pm, will also be notable as the first women’s world title contested over three-minute rounds on UK soil — a change Cameron sees as another milestone. “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,” she said.
Cameron is targeting undisputed status in a second weight class but acknowledges how unpredictable boxing can be. She says she believes it’s achievable but won’t put undue pressure on herself, knowing that making undisputed fights requires the right opponents and circumstances as much as ambition.
Watch Chantelle Cameron vs Michaela Kotaskova live on Sky Sports this Sunday from 7pm.