Chantelle Cameron: Back Home. Back For More.

Chantelle Cameron: Back Home. Back For More.

It didn’t go her way. The rematch with Katie Taylor at the tail end of 2023 was a bitter experience. In many ways, Chantelle Cameron has spent the last few years trying to find herself. Looking for something that perhaps was always there. That sense of belonging. Her happy place. Her safe place.

Cameron left Jamie Moore and Nigel Travis for pastures new. Some will criticise. Some will judge. The defeat to Taylor had left her looking for answers. Looking for something different. Cameron tried elsewhere. Two good coaches. But when something is missing, only the fighter truly knows.

The former undisputed world super-lightweight champion could have lied to herself. But Cameron, as she says herself, went back home. The three amigos reunited. A gym where she had the most successful period of her career. The greatest chapter of her boxing career. Cameron, Moore, and Travis back together for the final chapter.

Cameron gets the show back on the road again this Sunday. Jake Paul has brought his Most Valuable Promotions to UK soil for the very first time. A brand new, shiny broadcasting deal with Sky Sports has been announced in the last few days. Cameron, now signed to MVP, will know the importance of being associated with all concerned. It’s been a frustrating few years since that painful defeat to Taylor just over two years ago. The big career-defining fights haven’t materialised. Three fights that haven’t really satisfied. But Cameron has stayed busy. She has kept winning. But as some would say, business is about to pick up.

Cameron gets an Easter Sunday showdown in London. An opportunity to crown herself a two-weight world champion. The vacant super-welterweight title is on the line. The unbeaten Michaela Kotaskova will be in the opposite corner. The resume looks good enough on paper. Closer inspection tells a slightly different story. A record that flatters to deceive. The Northampton fighter is 1/33 to win. Everything points to a Cameron victory. A win gives Cameron a world title in a second weight division and opens the doors for a very big fighter in the summer.

“Brilliant,” Cameron said when I asked how her training camp had gone. “It couldn’t have gone any better.” The 34-year-old has seemingly found what she needed. Friends reunited, looking to close out the story, their story, in some style.

Starved of the big fights since the Katie Taylor reversal. That will now change. The three-division world champion Mikaela Mayer has flown in from Las Vegas to be ringside on Sunday night. Trust me, that’s no coincidence. A scouting mission that says plenty. Mayer and Cameron will likely fight each other later this year. While others will make excuses. They will just fight.