Chantelle Cameron: “It’s a new chapter. It’s like a reset button, I am so excited.”

Chantelle Cameron: “It’s a new chapter. It’s like a reset button, I am so excited.”

By Alex Springer

In many ways, Chantelle Cameron begins a new chapter in her boxing career on Saturday night. After a parting of the ways with Eddie Hearn, Cameron is now aligned with Frank Warren. But a change of promoter is only part of her recent changes to the Cameron inner circle. The former undisputed world super-lightweight champion is now trained by Grant Smith in Sheffield, and her ‘comeback’ fight in Birmingham tomorrow night is their first fight together.

“I’m feeling really good, I’m excited and good to go. I’m more ready than ever.” Cameron told me at Thursday’s pre-fight press conference.

“It’s a new chapter,” Cameron added. “It’s like a reset button, I am so excited.  All I’ve gotta do now is perform. Talking is cheap, anyone can talk and big themself up and say this is fantastic, that is fantastic, but at the end of the day I know the ins and outs and it’s the best I’ve ever felt.  All I’ve gotta do now is put it into action and not talk about it, do it.”

After losing her world titles last time out, Cameron will make her return against Elhem Mekhaled with the WBC interim super-lightweight bauble on the line. After sharing two titanic battles with Katie Taylor last year, Cameron is ready to begin her new chapter, and after all the frustration arising from the second fight with Taylor last November, Cameron is ready to unleash many things on Mekhaled.

“I feel like at the minute I’ve got so much frustration and anger that I couldn’t care who I was fighting to be honest.  I just wanna fight, and I want someone to pay for the frustration.

“She’s really tough, I think she’ll stand there with me, but at the end of the day I know what I’m doing in the gym and I feel like I’ll be too much for her.  As much as she is tough, there’s only so much she’s gonna wanna take and receive all night.”

Cameron seems happy and excited about what lies ahead with Frank Warren and Queensberry Promotions.

“They’ve got a very good path,” Cameron told FightPost of her new promotional relationship.
“Even this fight is for the interim, which will put me in a position as mandatory for the 140 belts. At the minute I’ve got my eyes set on 140. No distractions.”