{"id":10462,"date":"2023-11-21T19:02:40","date_gmt":"2023-11-21T16:02:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wikidollar.net\/10462\/katie-taylor-faces-chantelle-cameron\/"},"modified":"2023-11-21T19:02:41","modified_gmt":"2023-11-21T16:02:41","slug":"katie-taylor-faces-chantelle-cameron","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wikidollar.net\/?p=10462","title":{"rendered":"Katie Taylor faces Chantelle Cameron again with only a win in mind"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Katie Taylor faces Chantelle Cameron again with only a win in mind\u060c<\/p>\n<div>\n<div class=\"article-meta\">\n<ul class=\"authors\">\n<li class=\"mugshot-shown\">\n<div class=\"author-img\"><\/div>\n<p>Nick Parkinson<span class=\"timestamp \">November 21, 2023, 12:46 p.m.<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"author-overlay\">Close<\/p>\n<ul>\u2022 Boxing reporting for ESPN.co.uk, as well as several national newspapers<br \/>\u2022 Has been reporting on British boxing for over 15 years.<br \/>\u2022 Appears on BoxNation&#8217;s Boxing Matters<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<p>It&#8217;s been more than seven years since Katie Taylor last had to react to a loss, but after her loss to Chantelle Cameron in May, she embraced the emotion.  For long-time champions who lose later in their careers, some may view a loss as a sign that a career is coming to an end \u2013 but Taylor sees things differently.<\/p>\n<p>Retirement is not on the mind of Taylor (22-1, 6 KOs), 37, who insists she will be better against Cameron (18-0, 8 KOs) in their rematch on Saturday .  Cameron was awarded the victory by majority decision with two of the judges scoring 96-94 and the third judge scoring a draw.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI don&#8217;t think this fight will be my last fight, I don&#8217;t think of any other outcome than a victory,\u201d Taylor told ESPN.  &#8220;I feel very fresh and good in the gym, I feel I still have a lot of fight left in me. I will retire when I feel the time is right. I have no plans to hang up my gloves for now. Retirement It never occurred to me after the last fight, it&#8217;s never good for a fighter to think about retirement before fighting.<\/p>\n<p>Taylor, one of the biggest stars in women&#8217;s boxing, says there were reasons for not being at her best earlier this year, just like in 2016 when she was knocked out in the quarter-finals of the Rio de Janeiro Games.  The 2012 gold medalist described 2016 as a year of \u201cturmoil\u201d for her boxing career and her family.  Before the 2016 Olympics, Taylor&#8217;s parents separated and Katie decided to no longer have her father as her boxing coach.<\/p>\n<p>After the disappointment and shock of his loss at the Olympics, Taylor turned professional and progressed quickly.  A year later, she won a world title and became the undisputed lightweight world champion, as well as a world title at junior welterweight, with big victories over Jessica McCaskill, Natasha Jonas, Delfine Persoon (twice ) and Amanda Serrano.  The race continued until the beginning of this year.<\/p>\n<aside class=\"inline inline-photo full\">\n<figure><picture><source data- media=\"(min-width: 376px)\"><source data- media=\"(max-width: 375px)\"><img class=\" lazyload lazyload\" data-image-container=\".inline-photo\" height=\"320\" width=\"570\"\/><\/source><\/source><\/picture><figcaption class=\"photoCaption\"><cite>Katie Taylor and Eddie Hearn<\/cite><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/aside>\n<p>Cameron, 32, from Northampton who trains in Manchester, beat Taylor in Taylor&#8217;s first professional performance on home soil in Ireland.  Taylor, who is originally from Bray, Ireland but trains and lives in Connecticut, is still the undisputed lightweight world champion as Cameron&#8217;s junior welterweight belts were on the line when they met.  Taylor will once again challenge the Englishwoman for her four belts, back indoors at the 3Arena in Dublin.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI think failure makes you analyze things a little more and that was the case for this fight,\u201d Taylor said.  \u201cI think that\u2019s where all the growth happens, when you suffer a loss you are forced to consider every factor and I feel like a better boxer than before now.<\/p>\n<aside class=\"inline inline-table float-r\">\n<h2 class=\"table-caption\">Hit Stats<\/h2>\n<table cellspacing=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\" data-text-contract=\"-\" data-text-expand=\"+\" data-fix-cols=\"0\" data-behavior=\"responsive_table\" class=\"inline-table\">\n<thead>\n<tr>\n<th>Punches<\/th>\n<th>Taylor<\/th>\n<th>Cameron<\/th>\n<\/tr>\n<\/thead>\n<tbody>\n<tr class=\"last\">\n<td>Total landed<\/td>\n<td>111<\/td>\n<td>141<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr class=\"last\">\n<td>Total thrown away<\/td>\n<td>284<\/td>\n<td>565<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr class=\"last\">\n<td>Percent<\/td>\n<td>39%<\/td>\n<td>25%<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr class=\"last\">\n<td>The blows landed<\/td>\n<td>21<\/td>\n<td>27<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr class=\"last\">\n<td>Shots thrown<\/td>\n<td>88<\/td>\n<td>232<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr class=\"last\">\n<td>Percent<\/td>\n<td>24%<\/td>\n<td>12%<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr class=\"last\">\n<td>The power has landed<\/td>\n<td>90<\/td>\n<td>114<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr class=\"last\">\n<td>Power launched<\/td>\n<td>196<\/td>\n<td>333<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr class=\"last\">\n<td>Percent<\/td>\n<td>46%<\/td>\n<td>34%<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<tfoot>\n<tr>\n<td colspan=\"3\">&#8212; Courtesy of CompuBox<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tfoot>\n<\/table>\n<\/aside>\n<p>\u201cPreparation is better [for the rematch] and I feel much better before this fight, I feel in great shape and I can&#8217;t wait to show the best of myself that night.  I think everyone could see that I definitely wasn&#8217;t at my best in the last fight, so I&#8217;m looking forward to doing it right for the next one&#8230; This camp has been a lot different.  I don&#8217;t want to dwell on that.  I failed that night.  I feel better mentally and physically before this one.  I&#8217;m very grateful to have a second chance to make things right.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Avenging his only professional defeat is Taylor&#8217;s only goal Saturday.  Cameron, the undisputed junior welterweight world champion who has now won six world title fights in a row, was busier than Taylor in the first fight.  Cameron landed more total punches (141 to 111) and more power shots (114 to 90) than Taylor, according to CompuBox.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI&#8217;ve prepared myself for whatever comes my way, she has a high work rate and she will bring that to the table that night,\u201d Taylor said.  \u201cIt would be one of the greatest victories of my career [to beat Cameron at the weekend].  This one is special.  I&#8217;m looking forward to revenge, I guess, and I love going into these fights where people doubt me&#8230;I&#8217;m not saying there&#8217;s any added pressure this time because every fight has pressure, but it&#8217;s probably my most important fight yet in my career.  It\u2019s a fight that must be won.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Katie Taylor faces Chantelle Cameron again with only a win in mind\u060c Nick ParkinsonNovember 21, 2023, 12:46 p.m. Close \u2022 Boxing reporting for ESPN.co.uk, as well as several national newspapers\u2022 Has been reporting on British boxing for over 15 years.\u2022 Appears on BoxNation&#8217;s Boxing Matters It&#8217;s been more than seven years since Katie Taylor last [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":10463,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[1643,6078,2248,6077,5870,3080,10],"class_list":["post-10462","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-sports","tag-cameron","tag-chantelle","tag-faces","tag-katie","tag-mind","tag-taylor","tag-win"],"blocksy_meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wikidollar.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10462","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wikidollar.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wikidollar.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wikidollar.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wikidollar.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10462"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/wikidollar.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10462\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10464,"href":"https:\/\/wikidollar.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10462\/revisions\/10464"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wikidollar.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/10463"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wikidollar.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10462"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wikidollar.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10462"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wikidollar.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10462"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}