Chantelle Cameron Eyes Clash with Claressa Shields After Title Win

Chantelle Cameron walked out of Birmingham with three new belts and one name on her mind.

Claressa Shields.

Fresh from a brutal, high‑class win over Mikaela Mayer at MPW-06, Cameron confirmed that talks for a showdown with the self‑styled “GWOAT” are not only real, but already deep into advanced stages.

The scorecards – 97-93, 97-93, 96-94 – told one story: a tight, absorbing contest in which Cameron’s spite and volume edged Mayer’s craft. The wider story is even bigger. With that unanimous decision, the English fighter became WBA, WBC and WBO super‑welterweight world champion and added another gleaming line to a résumé that already includes the one feat nobody else can claim: she is the only woman to have beaten Katie Taylor in the professional ranks.

Now she wants the most daunting challenge available.

Cameron dares to chase the “GWOAT”

Many expected Saturday’s thriller to set up an immediate rematch. Mayer boxed well enough to justify that talk. She pushed Cameron hard, forced her to work every round, and kept the result in doubt right up to the final bell.

Cameron, though, is looking up the scales and across the ring at a different kind of risk.

“I fancy (fighting) Clarissa Shields,” she told Sky Sports, the adrenaline barely faded. “I think I really do want to dare to be great and Clarissa Shields, she's the GWOAT, she's number one and that's going to be a fight that will just be unbelievable.

“The teams are actually in talks for that now so there is actually movement on that fight and for me that makes me giddy because I think that really is me challenging the very, very best and what an opportunity if this fight comes off.

“They (talks) are very advanced; it is moving pretty quick is what my managers told me, and it is a very high possibility the fight will happen.”

Shields, the WBC and WBA middleweight champion, sits at 19-0 and has already conquered multiple divisions. She has long branded herself the “Greatest woman of all time”. Cameron, newly crowned at 154lbs and already proven at 140, sounds ready to test that slogan.

The timing is intriguing. Cameron’s stock has rebounded sharply after the Taylor rematch defeat, her win over Mayer reminding everyone of her relentlessness, engine and willingness to walk through fire. A clash with Shields would not just be a superfight; it would be a collision of two very different empires – the American icon who has dominated every weight she has visited, and the British road warrior who keeps chasing the hardest possible route.

Shields, Price and a tug of war over what comes next

There is, of course, another name in Shields’ orbit: Lauren Price.

When Shields stopped Kaye Scott in the sixth round in August to reclaim her middleweight belts, she made it clear that Price sat high on her wish list. She talked openly about a December or January date. Price, the Olympic champion, welcomed the idea. It sounded like the next logical step.

Then the market shifted.

Cameron’s performance in Birmingham, the belts she now carries and the history she already owns have changed the equation. For Shields and her team, the question is no longer just “who’s next?” but “which fight is biggest?”

Her promoter, Dmitriy Salita, has made his preference clear.

“Claressa came down to middleweight to make the biggest fights possible,” he told Sky Sports. “We want to make this a mega-event, and I believe that fight belongs in the United States.

“That being said, we love the UK, and another fight there is certainly not out of the question. It's an incredible time for women's boxing.”

So the board is set. Shields has Price in one corner, Cameron now charging into another, and a transatlantic tug of war over where – and against whom – the next defining night of her career should unfold.

Cameron has already dared to leave home, move weight and chase greatness once. If the call comes to step into Shields’ world and into a US ring, all evidence suggests she will not hesitate.