England’s former world champion Chantelle Cameron says she is gearing up to fight the winner of next month’s bout between Katie Taylor and Amanda Serrano.
Ireland’s Taylor takes on Puerto Rican Serrano on 15 November in a rematch of their 2022 lightweight classic, this time at light-welterweight for the undisputed title.
Cameron, 33, is the former owner of those belts and will defend her status as WBC interim champion on Saturday against Patricia Berghult.
“Whoever wins out of Serrano and Taylor, I will be in a position where they’ll need to fight me because I’m mandatory [challenger to the WBC title],” Cameron told BBC Radio Northampton.
Berghult, 30, is a former world champion at light-middleweight and will be Cameron’s second fight since suffering the first loss of her career to Taylor almost a year ago.
That win by Taylor avenged the only defeat of her career and speaking to BBC Sport on Tuesday she did not rule out a trilogy bout with Cameron, who won the first contest in May 2023.
Cameron has made sweeping changes since last year’s points defeat, switching coaches and joining a new promotional team, Frank Warren’s Queensberry.
Her debut with Warren was a majority points win over Elhem Mekhaled last July despite Cameron saying she had a “sinus and chest infection” the week of the fight.
Despite the health issues, Cameron threw a massive 864 punches during the contest with a combined 194 punches thrown between her and Mekhaled in the final round.
“I was feeling rotten during the week,” she said.
“I wish I was 100% because it did affect my performance.”
“[Berghult’s] a former world champion at the weight above. I faced her in the amateurs years and years back. It’s going to be an entertaining fight but as long as I do what I do best, I will win.”
Northampton fighter Cameron says she is solely focussed on regaining the belts she lost to Taylor.
“If I don’t win, I won’t see the belts again. I’ve got loads of faith in [Queensberry] to hunt them down,” Cameron said.
“When it comes to fighting for those world titles again, I am going to get them back because I will be improved and better.
“I was undisputed before and with these improvements I know I will be undisputed again.”
