Chantelle Cameron Interview- SLAMS TREATMENT IN IRELAND! WANTS JONAS AFTER TAYLOR REMATCH!

This is Lee Brown for No Smoke Sport

Delight to be joined by Shantau Cameron. Shantau, how are you doing

I'm great, thank you. How are you? Very well, thank you. Congratulations on the win over Katie Taylor back in May

How has life been following the victory? It's been very busy, but mainly things outside of boxing

Obviously, I've got the win. I was on a massive high, but I've just been busy doing bits and bobs now

but I'm actually back at Manchester. I arrived here today to start pre-camp and ready to go again

As the wind sunken yet, because it's a huge victory. Yeah, it's massive

I think a lot of people doubt with me, and I proved a lot of the doubt was wrong

and I think that's what made it a little bit more special for me. But I think, yeah, I don't think I'm really getting the credit

that I should be getting to the fact that I did, beat Katie Taylor in her own backyard

But yeah, it is what it is. But at the end of the end of the family are proud

I'm proud, my team's proud. And a lot of people that come over from the Fountain to support me

I made everyone in the Fountain proud. So that's what the matter is really

The bigger picture is the people that support me are absolutely delighted for me

that I make history that night and I did what people thought weren't possible

You mentioned going into Katie's, Taylor's back garden. How was it fighting in Ireland

and having to deal with that atmosphere? It was hostile. I think, to be honest

I thought it would have been a lot worse, but it was hostile, it was difficult

I learnt a lot about myself mentally that whole week, because it was a tough week

and had to poker face it and had to just keep myself mentally

mentally switched on and ignoring the news. noise, but I've been hearing a few bits and bobs from my friends, a few sponsors, my family

that things were happening over there. And I don't think it was very nice for some of the people that supported me

And my mum definitely didn't want to be coming back to Dublin. She actually told me yesterday it went for a walk

And she said, yeah, she's not going to come back to Dublin to support me if I go back there

Right, yeah, because obviously you ring walked first, and Katie Taylor took a long time

to come to the ring. Did nerves start to sit in? How did you keep your composure during those moments

I think I kind of knew what was happening and I just thought that week there was little things

there was little bits that were going on behind the scenes and I was kind of just laughing off thinking

if that's all you've got to beat me then it's going to have to be more than that

So things that were trying to like knock me off track and mess with me, I just had to think

the bigger picture, the bigger picture was winning on the fight night, so they've been

a walk before I just kept thinking this is just to get me cold switch me off to give her a better chance for winning And that why I generally am proud of myself that I got the win because all these little things that were against me

I just brushed them all off. And I did really learn a lot about myself. Not just as a boxer, but as a person, the stuff that I can be thrown at me in

I can just deflect it. And now I think I can do that have a lot of things in life as well. And how did you feel during the fight

Did you feel that you were winning the rounds? Did you feel heading towards a decision that you were going to get the nod

Because obviously one judge even scored at a draw, but most people had you winning by a few rounds at least

Yeah, I think the first few rounds I was thinking, well, this is okay, comfortable

Obviously, the crowd was, that was hard work because she'll throw a flurry

and honestly the punches would hit my arms and that and the pace would just erupts

and I'll catch her over a couple of good shots and it would just be silent and I remember I was just thinking

how the hell am I going to win the judges here because the crowd do have such an impact

and I'm just glad that the other two judges were very fair on the night

the judges give it a draw I don't know what they was watching but the ones that give me the win

I'm just so glad and so grateful that they were fair and they didn't, there was a credit to boxing because if they had jobs me

it would have looked very bad for boxing. And there's too many of them sort of decisions that are going about, and it's ruining boxing

So I'm just glad the crowd didn't have the impact on the judges

Did have a little bit of an impact on me, yeah? But on the judges, I've got the win, so that's all it matters

And what is the news on the rematch about where and when that might take place

So unfortunately what I'm being told is it's in Dublin again, it's for my belts again, and yeah, that's it really

So I've got to go through the same procedure, but I'm not too happy about it because I would like a few things in my favour

Obviously, I'd been walked first last time, stood there for much, it felt like an hour

It probably was about 10 minutes, but it felt like a very long time

and I just didn't feel like I was treated with much respect

It was just like I was just there as an opponent. Have you signed on for similar terms then

Was that part of the original agreement that the rematch would be on, again on Katie Taylor's terms

There's a few question marks because apparently it is, but yeah, it's just there's a few question marks

but I think it is all going to be on Katie's terms. Would you have liked to have gone down

a way to challenge for her titles in the rematch had the possibility have been there

Yeah, I think, like, if I'm going to go back to Dublin, I don't know how I'm going to get

myself motivated, and I do mean that because it wasn't a nice, it wasn't a nice environment

for me Like I was there for Katie Taylor when I coming I was a champion put my belts on the line and I felt like I just felt like I was just there as a number and I have such a good team that were backing me and like getting me fired up and egging me on

But the fact that I beat McCastell for my belts, she challenged me for my belts when she was in dispute at 147

I beat her, didn't get a fight with her at 147 because they said of her performance might good enough

So I never got a look into being match McStrell for her belt

but I had a chance to become two-weight and dispute a world champion. Katie Taylor, put my belts up against Katie, beat her

and then I was like, look, I want a chance to become two-weight world champion

It could have been done. I could have boxed her, but again, that's not going to happen

So I've got to put my belts on the line A game, and it's kind of like how many times I'm going to defend my belts against these

industry world champions when am I going to have a new challenge

when am I going to challenge to become two eight world champion or box at a different

weight to become a world champion so it's just a bit frustrating but yeah I find

the contract so I kind of just got to get on with it you mentioned mccascoe obviously

you've beaten her before um she's in line to fight sandy Ryan now that's been announced um

would you be interested in after the Katie Taylor rematch, would you be interested in fighting the winner at 147

So Tasha Jainis has the belt as well. So I'd like to see Tasha become undisputed

and I'd love to fight Tasha Jonas. I think a lot of sweat for Tasha

I see her as a friend as well. But I think me and Tasha make a good fight, a great fight

And British-R-R-British, it does the numbers. We both respect each other. There's going to be no garbage

and trash talk and it will be, that's what I would be interested in

And I think if Tasha guys were undisputed, I think it could be me less Tasha join us

Okay, that's a fight I'm sure everyone would look forward to. Going back to the reception you received in Ireland

did any of that come from Katie Taylor directly or a team herself

Because it seemed like there was quite a bit of mutual respect between the two of you

No, not from Katie at all. she's a legend, though, I have a lot of respect for Katie

Obviously, she's a massive hero event. She should be here as well. What she's done for women's boxing, what she's done for Ireland

She's just such a talent, and what a great boxer. So, no, there was mutual respect there. There was nothing from Katie's side

I think she deserved that homecoming. I said it, the builder, all five weeks, she deserved that homecoming

but I put myself there because I wanted to fight. I put myself in that situation

I've done it. I've got through it. I won it. And now it's like, do I really want to go back there and do it again

Like, I'd rather go somewhere. I'd rather go Madison Square Gardens, abbey-dabby

somewhere where I can have a bit more a bit more like what the way Like I be a bit fair but I just like take all that off my shoulders and not have to put up with some of the stuff that was happening over them

and just make it like a little bit further when do you think obviously with these

sort of contractual issues when do you think an announcement can be

expected to be made on this fight I think they're looking very soon

but I just I just want to make sure that I'm also last time

I just literally just said yes to everything because I really wanted to fight and I knew

it had to. Whereas this time it was hard over there. It was difficult

I don't think I give myself the best chances because I didn't know what to respect and I didn't

know how it would be over there. And I've kind of been there doing that

And the fact that people are saying to me like, she said, we're not going to come over because

things that were happening in the toilet, my mum doesn't want to come

Like, I just don't know how I'm going to get out for it. But obviously, if on contract, I have to anyway

But it would be nice if we did go somewhere different and have the rematch

But it was great in Ireland. Some of it, not all of it was bad

There was some great people there. They really welcomed me, which I was quite shocked at

So there was a fair few that were very welcoming, very nice

And afterwards, sending me a lovely message and stuff. And Katie's massive in Ireland

She's massive worldwide, but in Ireland, she literally is like, God, so I knew what to respect

But as the champion now, I kind of just don't see why I would go there and have to be, have to be, like, in that position again

Yeah, I understand that. I don't think it's me being brave. I just think, like, if I have to go, I have to go

But I would like to have it a bit more neutral where I don't have to fight

Katie and everyone else. Yeah. Literally like I was fighting everyone in that arena

It was just, it was a lot. But then I suppose you've got to look at it from that side of you

that you've come through, that that side of it, that all the odds were stacked against you

you still come up on top. Yeah, yeah. And I have a great team as well

My team really had my back and they got me through it

And I just, if it weren't for them, I don't think I wouldn't even coach with the Vingwark

because it was long. I took my vibe off because I didn't know

it was going to be a long ring walk and especially because

my ring walk I was kind of told we're going to start

filming from the changing room so that it's not long and then next thing

I'm standing in the ring waiting and it was kind of like so I was rushed out

to do my bin walk ready to wait 10 minutes and it was kind of like

it just won't be nice But you got through it though Yeah, yeah

I still got the win anyway And that's the funny thing is All that and I still got the win

And just shows you Like you can't break it You can't break me Nothing can break me

Michoud Tau Karam Thank you so much for joining us And we wish you luck

As and when the rematches announced Thank you