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Mikaela Mayer wants nothing but challenging, meaningful fights as she enters the final phase of her career.
The three-division champion hopes to face unified welterweight champ Lauren Price and undisputed heavyweight champ Claressa Shields at middleweight before her career concludes. The first two fights of Mayer’s final run figure to be back-to-back junior middleweight title bouts against Chantelle Cameron, who the WBA/WBC 154-pound champ is set to face August 29 in a unification clash at bp pulse LIVE in Birmingham, England.
Mayer expects to encounter Cameron twice because they have rematch clauses in their contracts for a 10-round main event ESPN+ will stream in the United States and Sky Sports will televise in the United Kingdom.
Mayer (22-2, 5 KOs) thinks she has six fights left before she walks away from boxing because of how difficult training camps are and the length of her promotional contract with Jake Paul’s MVPW.
Facing Cameron, the WBO champ, will provide the third-ranked Mayer with an opportunity to defeat the No. 5 fighter on The Ring’s pound-for-pound list and a chance to win the unclaimed Ring junior middleweight title.
“Then Lauren Price, so I can finish what I started at 147 before I jump up to 160 and go take on Claressa,” Mayer told The Ring of her plans after facing Cameron twice. “That would be ideal for me, but you never know what happens in boxing. I got to take it one fight at a time.”
Shields (18-0, 3 KOs) has become undisputed champion in three divisions and won consecutive Olympic gold medals for the United States in 2012 in London and 2016 in Rio de Janeiro. The five-division titleholder from Flint, Michigan, dropped back down to middleweight to face WBA and WBC titleholder Kaye Scott on August 15 at State Farm Arena in Atlanta (DAZN).
Las Vegas’ Mayer, 36, and Shields, 31, were both members of the 2016 U.S. Olympic team.
A potential clash with Price (10-0, 2 KOs) could crown a unified champion as well. Wales’ Price owns the IBF, WBA and WBC 147-pound titles and Mayer is the WBO champ. Price, however, could face Shields next in their own middleweight match, assuming the heavily favored Shields defeats Scott.
“I think I’ll be at peace after six more fights,” Mayer said, “assuming I get the fights that I want.”
Mayer beat Mary Spencer (10-4, 6 KOs) by unanimous decision October 30 in Montreal to become a unified 154-pound champion.
The win was Mayer’s third in a row. After losing a split decision to England’s Natasha Jonas (16-3-1, 9 KOs) in January 2024, the Woodland Hills, California, native beat Brit Sandy Ryan (9-3-1, 3 KOs) on points in back-to-back bouts in September 2024 and March 2025 to win and defend the WBO welterweight title.
England’s Cameron (22-1, 8 KOs) has won four straight fights since losing her rematch against unified 140-pound titleholder Katie Taylor by majority decision in November 2023. She gave Ireland’s Taylor (25-1, 6 KOs) her lone defeat – a majority-decision win to retain her Ring, IBF, WBA, WBC and WBO 140-pound titles in May 2023.
Cameron, 35, became a two-division champion in her last fight when she beat Michaela Kotaskova (12-1-2, 4 KOs) by unanimous decision to win the then-vacant WBO 154-pound title April 5 in London.
“I’m fighting someone that I’ve always wanted to fight,” Mayer said. “Me and Chantelle, we’ve been on each other’s hit list for a while. We’re both at the time in our career where we’re where we want to make important fights, and this is important for women’s boxing.”

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