Katie Taylor might retire, however Chantelle Cameron condemns ‘excuses’: ‘I think she’ll take a straightforward combat!’

Chantelle Cameron has condemned the jibes Katie Taylor slung her method after they each fought on the identical present at Madison Sq. Backyard.

After defeating nice rival Amanda Serrano for the third time, Taylor quashed options of finishing a trilogy with Cameron in harsh phrases.

“I think Chantelle has to see if she can sell out a 1,000-seat arena first. I don’t think she can sell out any stadium at all,” Taylor mentioned.

“I think I’ve made her more money than she really deserves to be quite honest.”

Cameron criticised Taylor’s remarks. “Usually she’s quite respectful and she’s a massive role model for the younger generation,” Cameron instructed Sky Sports activities.

“To place somebody down and discredit one other boxer, once you’re an enormous function mannequin, she did not actually carry herself properly in that press convention.

“I was quite shocked at her comments,” she continued. “We’re trying to grow the sport, instead of talking and behaving like that. You’re just discrediting the sport and it’s not really a good image for the next generation coming through.”

The Briton had crushed Taylor in Dublin of their first combat, earlier than the Irish star obtained her revenge of their rematch in 2023.

“It’s 1-1, it’s one a piece. I won the first fight pretty convincingly. The second fight with Katie, there was a dispute,” Cameron declared.

“When she beat me, she said it was the performance of a lifetime, but in all honesty, it was a scrappy fight and there was a lot of cuddling that wasn’t boxing. If you want to give yourself praise for a performance like that, then maybe she shouldn’t box me again.

“If that is how she desires to beat me, that is honest sufficient. However she will be able to’t say she’s a greater boxer than me.”

Cameron insisted that Taylor was making “excuses”.

“I take it as a praise. She’s scared to combat me,” the Briton said. “Ladies’s boxing, it is a onerous sufficient sport with out speaking about cash and purses and who’s getting paid what and ‘I will offer you this payday’.

“You don’t have to like each other, not at all, but to make women’s boxing grow and get more people following and watching it and also the younger generation to behave in a certain way without being trashy, then we should all be supporting each other. Again, you don’t have to like each other, but you don’t have to put others down.”

Cameron defended her WBC interim super-lightweight title towards Jessica Camara on the undercard of Taylor’s undisputed 140lb championship victory over Serrano.

It means Cameron is the necessary challenger for the WBC title that Taylor holds.

“Now it’s either fight Katie Taylor or she vacates the belt,” she mentioned. “All I know is I’m going to be fighting for the belt next.

“I do not know who it will be subsequent however I do know I will be boxing for the world title once more earlier than the top of the yr.”

Taylor did say she was contemplating whether or not to even combat on. Cameron, although, was unconvinced, suggesting: “I don’t think she will retire. I think she’ll have an easy fight.”

Nevertheless, Taylor’s promoter Eddie Hearn wonders if she has certainly boxed for the final time.

“It was the first time I heard Katie say ‘if I fight again’ in the presser,” Hearn instructed Sky Sports activities Information.

“She definitely won’t fight this year, I don’t think, and of course, the elephant in the room is [boxing at] Croke Park.

“I feel that carrot can be very troublesome for Katie to not chew. I feel that may be the one factor that she hasn’t actually achieved. She’s had big Irish homecomings however by no means Croke Park clearly.

“I don’t know if she’ll fight again. She’s 39, she’s done it all, she’s beaten everyone she’s ever faced and, for me, forever will go down as the greatest female fighter of all-time.”