WBC champ Chantelle Cameron unfazed by title pressure

Might twentieth, 2021

Mark Robinson

Chantelle Cameron is itching to make the primary protection of her WBC World Mild-Welterweight title towards Michelle Hernandez – and needs to point out she is going to relish being a World ruler on Saturday Might 29 on the Michelob ULTRA Area at Mandalay Bay in Las Vegas, Nevada, dwell worldwide on DAZN.

Cameron (13-0 7 KOs) landed the vacant WBC strap with a shut-out win over Ariana dos Santos Araujo in Milton Keynes, England in October, however her first protection towards Hernandez (23-7-3 7 KOs) proposed for March needed to be postponed via an harm to the Briton.

The pair now get it on in entrance of followers in Las Vegas, and that’s precisely the kind of stage that the 30 12 months previous needs to be spotlighted on, and for Cameron, holding the inexperienced and gold belt means different fighters are calling her out – and that’s a place she’s delighted to be in.

“I really feel good being the goal,” stated Cameron. “It’s higher than doing the chasing, that’s irritating, you might be simply making an attempt to get the fights and a title shot, so now I do know I’m going to get fights as a result of individuals need my belt.

“Being World champion has probably not sunk in but, and nothing has modified as a result of it’s been so lengthy since I received the battle, and I haven’t been capable of defend it but. So, I don’t suppose it’ll actually really feel it is going to sink in till I win extra belts, however I nonetheless really feel the identical, nonetheless have the identical drive, the identical starvation, and now I’m a goal. I used to should chase individuals for fights however now I’ve the inexperienced and gold belt, I’m the goal.

“One of the best of me is but to return, the battle hasn’t come the place I get to point out that. I boxed to my recreation plan to win the belt and did what I needed to do and what my coaches instructed me. She is an enormous puncher so I knew I didn’t wish to be taking dangers and getting concerned with somebody that might put me on my bottom. Once I do get the battle that exhibits what I can actually do, I feel individuals will acknowledge me extra.

“Everyone seems to be so determined to remain undefeated, however it is a sport, all of us should climb the ladder and in case you are that good, then boxing anybody – that’s my mentality. If I turn out to be undisputed and somebody is asking me out and so they’ve proved themselves, let’s take the battle.”

Cameron’s conflict with Hernandez is a part of an enormous evening of motion in Sin Metropolis, topped by unbeaten WBC World Light-weight champion Devin Haney (25-0 15 KOs) defending his title towards former World ruler Jorge Linares (47-5 29 KOs).

There’s a captivating battle between two Golden Boy Promotions stablemates as Jason Quigley (18-1 14 KOs) and Shane Mosley Jr (17-3 10 KOs) go toe-to-toe for the WBO NABO Middleweight title and it’s an enormous evening for Martin J. Ward (24-1-2 11 KOs) as he faces Azinga Fuzile (14-1 8 KOs) in a last eliminator for the IBF World Tremendous-Featherweight title.

There’s knowledgeable debut on the cardboard for Eddie Hearn’s newest American signing, Khalil Coe, Reshat Mati (9-0 7 KOs) enters double figures within the professional recreation on the evening, Ramla Ali (2-0) has been spectacular in her two fights since turning professional in October and the primary professional feminine fighter from Somalia will get an introduction to American battle followers on the invoice, a card that’s rounded off by Devin Haney Promotions’ Darren Cunningham (13-0 7 KOs) persevering with his professional rise.