Chantelle Cameron
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Bio
Chantelle Cameron is one of the best fighters Britain has produced in the women's game, and Northampton should shout about her a lot louder than it does. She is 22-1 with 8 knockouts and holds the WBO super welterweight world title, having previously been the undisputed champion at light welterweight.
Here is the line that should be on every poster she is ever on: Chantelle Cameron beat Katie Taylor. In Dublin. In Taylor's own backyard, in front of a crowd that wanted only one result, Cameron went in and won. The rematch went the other way on the cards, but the first fight happened and nobody can take it off her.
What makes her so difficult is the engine. Cameron does not just outwork opponents, she wears them down and then keeps going anyway. She gets to the body early, she leans on people, and by the middle rounds the fighter opposite her has usually stopped doing what they came in to do. If you know, you know — that kind of relentlessness is worth more over a full fight than almost any single skill.
On August 29 she headlines MVPW-06 at bp pulse LIVE in Birmingham against Mikaela Mayer, with three world titles at stake. It is a home fight against a brilliant technician, and it is exactly the sort of night Cameron has spent a career being built for.