Chantelle Cameron ratchets up bad blood with Katie Taylor as she takes aim at Irish icon's role model reputation
In a moment that
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Taylor cracked a smile after coming out with the brutal dig
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Cameron had fought on the undercard that night at Madison Square Garden
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Taylor capped off her rivalry with Amanda Serrano in style on July 11
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So clearly the 39-year-old doesn't really view a third bout with Cameron as a viable stadium-filling option befitting this late stage in her career.
But that isn't stopping Cameron from campaigning for another crack at her foe, whom
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"To put someone down and discredit another boxer, when you're a huge role model, she didn't really carry herself well in that press conference.
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"I was quite shocked at her comments. 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."
She continued: "It's 1-1, it's one apiece. I won the first fight pretty convincingly. The second fight with Katie, there was a dispute.
"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.
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"If you want to give yourself praise for a performance like that, then maybe she shouldn't box me again.
"If that's how she wants to beat me, that's fair enough. But she can't say she's a better boxer than me. I take it as a compliment. She's scared to fight me.
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"Women's boxing, it's a hard enough sport without talking about money and purses and who's getting paid what and 'I'm going to give 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."
RING RETURN
Cameron's case to be the next one to land the lucrative role of Taylor's potentially last-ever opponent is aided by her victory at MSG.
By successfully defending her WBC interim super-lightweight belt against Jessica Camara, she's entrenched herself as the mandatory challenger to the undisputed 140lbs strap that The Bray Bomber holds.
Summarising her stance, the English bruiser concluded: "Now it's either fight Katie Taylor or she vacates the belt.
"All I know is I'm going to be fighting for the belt next.
"I don't know who it's going to be next but I do know I'm going to be boxing for the world title again before the end of the year."
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