The terms for Chantelle Cameron’s first defense of her second title reign is now subject to the highest bidder.
A purse bid hearing will determine promotional rights for the ordered WBC 140lbs title fight between England’s Cameron and countrywoman and former WBO 147lbs titlist Sandy Ryan. Their 30-day negotiation period came and went without a deal reached between the two sides. WBC officials have scheduled a hearing for October 31, to be conducted via video conference from its headquarters in Mexico City.
Cameron is signed to Most Valuable Promotions. Ryan is a promotional free agent who was formerly with Matchroom Boxing – Cameron’s former promoter – when she previously reigned as undisputed champion.
Ryan is managed by Brian Peters, who more famously guides the career of two-division undisputed champion Katie Taylor.
The WBC previously ordered a Taylor-Cameron rubber match, a condition for permitting Taylor to enter a third fight with Amanda Serrano earlier this summer which the Irishwoman won via unanimous decision. Cameron, 21-1 (8 KOs) claimed an interim version of the WBC 140lbs title on that July 11 card, with the promise that she’d get a crack at the winner.
Taylor and Cameron are responsible for the lone defeat on each other’s record, both which occurred in 2023. However, Taylor and her team never seriously considered a rubber match, as the focus instead shifted to her renewed in-ring rivalry with Serrano.
Cameron was back in Taylor’s sights once the WBC intervened with their ruling earlier this summer. Their own negotiation period included an extension, only for Taylor, 25-1 (6 KOs) to ultimately vacate the title while keeping the rest of her unified 140lbs championship reign intact.
The movement saw Cameron elevated to full WBC titleholder, only for the sanctioning body to immediately call for her next fight.
All told, Cameron has won three straight since her narrow defeat to Taylor. She fully unified the 140lbs titles within a five-fight span from October 2020-November 2022 and then successfully defended against Taylor in May 2023 before she lost in their November 2023 rematch.
Ryan was granted the number one position upon her alerting the WBC of her intention to drop down from welterweight. The 32-year-old Derby native suffered a pair of defeats to Mikaela Mayer, the first which ended her WBO 147lbs title reign last September.
Their March 29 rematch was more decisive, after which Ryan rebounded with a 10-round, unanimous decision over unbeaten Jade Grierson on September 6 in Houghton-le-Spring. Ryan weighed 145lbs for the bout, though her team informed the WBC immediately thereafter of their plans to campaign at junior welterweight.
