CHANTELLE CAMERON HAS called for a third fight against Katie Taylor and claimed “everything” was against her in defeat last month at the 3Arena.
Taylor claimed redemption with a majority decision victory over Cameron in Dublin on 25 November, to become undisputed light-welterweight champion.
The Bray fighter, in the process, avenged the first professional defeat of her career and now holds the WBC, WBA, IBF and WBO light-welterweight belts – which Cameron wants back.
“It wasn’t just me and Katie in that ring. If it was, I’d take the loss and say the better women won on the night,” the 32-year-old told BBC Northampton.
“I had everything against me. The ref on the night . . . it was such a high status fight, why would you put in a referee that no-one had heard of.
“That’s not my job, it’s my job to fight. I don’t look into who’s reffing, who’s judging. I’m just frustrated – if I could turn back the hands of time, I would make sure that was all looked into. I’ve learnt my lesson.”
Cameron has yet to watch the fight again because she is angry at what she describes as “a lot of stuff going on outside the ring” which contributed to her loss.
“It’s not the time to watch it back at the minute because it will just make me more and more angry, so for the time being, I’m just going to let it settle a bit,” she said.
“I want the trilogy, it doesn’t matter where it is. She’s the champion now and I’ve just got to do what I’ve got to do to make sure it happens, and I’ll accept anything. I want that fight and I want my belts back.
“I need to get a belt so I can bring it back to Northampton and fight in front of my home town, my friends, my family, a homecoming.
“I’ll get a belt back. I’ve got the champion mindset. I don’t think it was a fair match, the belts were snatched off me by not just Katie, there was a lot of stuff going on outside the ring.
“I’m determined now to kind of fight everyone, I feel it’s me against the world now.”
I dreamt last night we scored against them in the first min. off to the bookies this morn. come on da boys in green.
ah now Liamo, you’re beginning to sound like a cork langer, and we’ve more than enough of them. Ireland will finish top of the group, and you know we will.
and you sound deluded, but I hope you’re right.
Brady is spot on, still hope we do well but it’s going to be hard getting out of our group, if we do we could go all the way
You serious?
I’d listen to mr Brady if I was you, or are we so used to listening to people in this country who don’t know what they are talking about, that we don’t recognise one who does, ?
My only worry is that we’ve been largely untested, Italy had been poor when we played them. France were definitely not playing their A-game. And the first Russia match was a real eye opener.
However the score still ended 3-2, not to mention holding them to 0-0 away.
There’s no doubt about it, we will have to use team morale as a tool, once a good team sees a chink in our armour they’ll tear us apart.
Thankfully trap knows this.
Croatia have a decent squad but we shouldnt fear them, L.Modric is their best player by a stretch, Krancjar is considered an important player for them & he cant make the spurs team. They have some other decent players but I wouldnt put them in the same bracket as Holland, Germany, Spain. The winner will come from those three in my opinion. Ireland can definitely make it out of their group, draw against Croatia as we always do, will probably lose to Spain & go for it against Italy, who knows, there isnt any pressure on us.
If only Paul the Octopus was still with us. He’d know the winner.
Really any team that gets out of any group can win it. Some very tough groups but anything can happen in knockout football. Come on Ireland.