Mikaela Mayer vs. Chantelle Cameron Set For August 29th in Birmingham

Mikaela Mayer vs. Chantelle Cameron Set For August 29th in Birmingham

For a brief moment last week, it looked as though it wouldn’t get over the line. Chantelle Cameron wanted three-minute rounds. Mikaela Mayer was insisting on two-minute rounds. There was a real chance it would be another good fight that was lost in the negotiating room. A fight that was far too good to waste could have been a case of what if.

But common sense has prevailed, and later this summer, Mayer and Cameron will share the ring together in a showdown that has fight of the year written all over it. The fight which will take place in Birmingham, England on August 29th, has a catchweight limit of 148 pounds, and Mayer will defend her WBC and WBA super-welterweight titles; Cameron is defending her WBO title. The WBO world welterweight title Mayer also holds is not on the line.

Mayer is no stranger to having fights of this magnitude. Those unforgettable fights with the likes of Maïva Hamadouche, Natasha Jonas, and the two brutal fights with Sandy Ryan. There is every chance her fight with Chantelle Cameron will be added to that impressive collection.

Cameron (22-1) has been starved of nights like this since those two titanic fights with Katie Taylor in 2023. Cameron ripped up the script when she ruined Taylor’s Dublin homecoming in their first meeting. A victory that still goes under the radar. The history books will likely tell us that the only fighter to ever defeat Katie Taylor in a boxing ring was Chantelle Cameron. But Cameron never really got the plaudits she deserved for that win. I always felt, and still do, that it was a victory and a performance that has been forgotten about. Cameron was inspired that night and was simply brilliant. Taylor got revenge in the rematch six months later, and despite the call for a trilogy, it never came. Very much the one that got away.

It’s not really happened for Cameron since losing her unbeaten record and her undisputed world super-lightweight titles to Taylor. Often, on the outside looking in, the big fights she desired went elsewhere. But Cameron kept winning. Three fights that kept her ticking over, including winning the vacant WBO world super-welterweight title in April with a points victory over Michaela Kotaskova in London. Cameron moved up to three-minute rounds for her win over Kotaskova and seemed intent on fighting the longer duration for the remainder of her career. But with the fight with Mayer seemingly at risk, Cameron agreed to drop back down to two-minute rounds. In many ways, a sensible call.

After a difficult period where she was starved of fights of this kind of scale, Cameron will relish once again being the headline act. Now reunited with Jamie Moore and Nigel Travis, the 35-year-old will hope the fight with Mayer is the start of an Indian Summer for her career. Cameron has only lost to Katie Taylor in twenty-three professional fights, and knows a win over a quality fighter like Mayer will give her back what was lost in that rematch with Taylor.

Mayer (22-2) has recovered quite magnificently from her period in the boxing wilderness. A painful defeat to her great rival, Alycia Baumgardner, in 2022 was hard to take, even harder to recover from. A wafer-thin split-decision defeat to Natasha Jonas in 2024 was another close call, and like the Baumgardner setback, many believed that the American was denied a rightful victory. But Mayer, with those two wins over Sandy Ryan that earned her the WBO world welterweight title, got herself back on top. Late last year, Mayer moved up to 154 to defeat the Canadian Mary Spencer. Mayer is now a three-division world champion, but she knows Cameron represents another tough night at the office. But at 35, Mayer is in the form of her life.

Mikaela Mayer against Chantelle Cameron is everything that is good about women’s boxing right now. Two pound-for-pound fighters at the peak of their powers fighting each other. Either could have made their excuses and gone their separate ways. The fight is unlikely to disappoint.