As they prepare to lock horns once more in Dublin's 3Arena at the end of this month, Chantelle Cameron has called out Katie Taylor for some of her antics around their previous bout in the same venue in May.
The historic fight saw Taylor fighting professionally on home soil for the first time, and it was her first fight in any capacity in her home city in over a decade.
An emotional night at the 3Arena saw a sellout crowd welcome Taylor to the arena to much fanfare, after a stacked undercard. Despite this, Englishwoman Cameron would ultimately come out on top with a decisive victory, puncturing the 3Arena atmosphere and planting the seed for a much-anticipated rematch later this month.
There was a dig from Cameron's team as they departed Dublin in May, and the mind games are beginning again in earnest.
The trash talk has started to ramp up again in recent months, with Cameron saying in a September interview that she had "no respect" for her Irish opponent.
As the rematch draws ever closer on November 25, Cameron has now called out Taylor and her entourage for prolonging the hometown hero's ring-walk ahead of their May bout.
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Chantelle Cameron rips into Katie Taylor "piss take" during 3Arena fight
20 May 2023; Katie Taylor before her undisputed super lightweight championship fight with Chantelle Cameron at the 3Arena in Dublin. Photo by Stephen McCarthy/Sportsfile
The scenes at Katie Taylor's Dublin fight against Chantelle Cameron in May were packed with emotion, as an energetic 3Arena crowd welcomed one of Ireland's greatest sporting heroes home.
However, the length of Taylor's ringwalk got on Cameron's nerves, and the English fighter still holds a grudge after her opponent dragged things out.
Speaking to DAZN this week ahead of their November 25 rematch, Cameron accused Taylor of "taking the piss" with her elongated ringwalk, and said that the homecoming narrative had irked her in the buildup to the fight earlier this year:
I remember watching her and thinking, 'you haven't even started walking yet.'
I think it was a piss take. It's a long enough night anyway, let's get cracking now.
There were people saying that Katie wasn't the best because of the ring walk, because of this and that - it doesn't matter. If I'm on my best night or she is on her worst night, I beat her at the end of the day.
I can see why Katie wants to fight me on her own terms, but that's wound me up. I have to come back to Dublin again, give her a second run at a homecoming.
I never had a homecoming. You're not putting your belts on the line, this is my legacy, and I feel like I'm being held back a bit because Katie is getting another shot at me again.
Cameron would do her talking in the ring, claiming a decisive victory and silencing the Dublin crowd after all the pre-fight talk and hype.
20 May 2023; Chantelle Cameron celebrates with coach Nigel Travis after defeating Katie Taylor in their undisputed super lightweight championship fight at the 3Arena in Dublin. Photo by Stephen McCarthy/Sportsfile
Cameron went on to say that she has no intention of lying down and allowing Katie Taylor an easy run of things at her "second run" at a homecoming on November 25, and said she would be going into the ring intending to "hurt" the Irish fighter and remove any chance of excuses being made:
I'm spiteful, I'm horrible, I'm just a completely different fighter. That's why, on November 25, I know that a whole different version of me is about to be in that ring.
The excuses are firing me up...I'm going to be coming forward, I'm going to be picking my shots so they are cleaner and harder. I'm going to be dominant and I'm going to be brutal.
What's the excuse going to be that time? I am going to hurt Katie Taylor.
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