She seriously considered walking away from boxing, having always suffered with self doubt she found her confidence at an all-time low.
“Boxing is a tough sport with a lot of ups and downs,” Cameron says, keen not to be drawn into a discussion about the acrimonious split.
Early retirement however was shelved when she linked up with coaches Jamie Moore and Nigel Travis.
Fast forward three years and Cameron was on the brink of fighting for the undisputed crown after beating Mary McGee in April 2021, but a fight with then-rival champion Kali Reiss never materialised and Cameron found herself on the sidelines for seven months.
It was another dark chapter of her career, a “mental battle” in which she felt she virtually “disappeared” from boxing.
After a keep busy fight against Argentina’s Victoria Bustos in May 2022, Cameron challenged for the undisputed title six months later, outclassing Jessica McCaskill in Abu Dhabi.
However, that achievement occurred some 5,000km away from home and to a fanfare that paled in comparison to the attention that circled Taylor’s epic against Serrano at Madison Square Garden in New York earlier that year, or to Marshall’s unsuccessful undisputed tilt against Shields in London just a month earlier.
“As much as there have been ups and downs it’s all going to make a better story in the end,” Cameron says.
