Chantelle Cameron looks to teach toughest lesson yet to Jessica McCaskill

Chantelle Cameron erstwhile thought she would prosecute a vocation arsenic a teacher, but alternatively she became a nonrecreational boxer. On Saturday, she'll get the accidental to spell apical of the people successful the women's inferior welterweight division.

Cameron defends her WBC and IBF belts, with the vacant WBA and WBO titles besides connected the line, erstwhile she faces Jessica McCaskill astatine the Etihad Arena, Abu Dhabi, arsenic main enactment to the airy heavyweight rubric combat betwixt Dmitry Bivol and Gilberto Ramirez.

It is the biggest combat of Cameron's five-year nonrecreational career, but McCaskill has been present before. The Chicago-based boxer defeated Cecilia Braekhus to go undisputed satellite welterweight champion 2 years agone and has since made 3 defences of the 4 large titles since.

Cameron (16-0, 8 KOs), 31, has been calling for a combat against 1 of the biggest names of the part and gets her privation this play connected a signifier she erstwhile thought was beyond her dreams.

"As an amateur boxer, nonrecreational boxing wasn't truly an enactment for me," Cameron told ESPN. "[Reigning undisputed lightweight champion] Katie Taylor and [reigning undisputed ace middleweight champion] Claressa Shields truly opened the doorway for america all. I didn't adjacent deliberation I was going to beryllium a pro boxer. When I didn't suffice for the 2016 Olympics, I thought I would conscionable ore connected my studying, spell to university, and go a teacher. Now I've got this accidental which is simply a imagination travel true.

"Women's boxing is booming," she continued. "There was an all-women's boxing lawsuit successful England precocious with a packed arena and large fights, it looked great. Everyone is funny successful women's boxing and we are starting to get recognition now, wherever it's boxing, alternatively than conscionable a women's boxing fight.

"This combat is simply a imagination travel existent for me, not galore boxers get this accidental to combat for each 4 titles and it's a bequest presumption opportunity. It's thing I tin ever look backmost on. It's what each boxer dreams of, antheral oregon female, being successful an undisputed rubric fight, and that's wherefore I don't consciousness immoderate unit going into Saturday due to the fact that I conscionable spot it arsenic an opportunity. I've been much motivated for this combat than immoderate different before. I've pushed myself to the limits."

Saturday's combat volition make a 4th undisputed satellite champion -- proprietor of each 4 large belts -- successful women's boxing, with Franchon Crews-Dezurn astatine ace middleweight, Claressa Shields astatine middleweight, McCaskill astatine welterweight and Taylor astatine lightweight.

McCaskill (12-2, 5 KOs), 38, has the acquisition of doubly beating 1 of the biggest stars of women's boxing successful Braekhaus, and she has won her past 2 fights by stoppage.

But Cameron, from Northampton successful England, is assured of inflicting McCaskill's archetypal decision since Taylor bushed her unanimously connected points astatine lightweight astir 5 years ago.

Cameron, who arrived successful Abu Dhabi connected Sunday, told ESPN: "She's my toughest combat truthful far, she's undisputed welterweight champion for a crushed and she's improved since Katie Taylor bushed her. But I wouldn't accidental she's a level supra my different opponents.

"She's tough, stubborn and she's unorthodox, awkward. We person a crippled program and if it's not moving we're going to bash thing else. We person options but I deliberation she's 1 dimensional and our program should work.

"All round, I deliberation I'm stronger, faster and sharper than her, and adjacent if it gets into a toe-to-toe fight, I'm good with that. She throws backmost hands from obscurity and she's unorthodox, she conscionable comes guardant and doesn't cognize however to determination astir the ring.

"But what she does works, and she does the aforesaid happening implicit and over. I conflict to ticker her, her benignant is not casual connected the eye, it's precise messy, but she's ever pugnacious and game. I'll person to nutrient my best."