Chantelle Cameron knew there was more to achieve even after she fully unified the junior welterweight division.

How exactly the unbeaten Brit would surpass that moment wasn’t exactly clear at the time of her win over Jessica McCaskill last November 5 in Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates.

Then came the chance of a lifetime.

Cameron (17-0, 8KOs) saw a mandatory title defense fall through and wasn’t entirely sure of her next move when a dream assignment became available. Boxing royalty Katie Taylor (22-0, 6KOs) needed a new opponent for her long overdue homecoming to Ireland after Amanda Serrano (44-2-1, 30KOs) didn’t fully heal from lingering injuries in time to proceed with their scheduled May 20 rematch in Dublin.

Taylor took the bold step of calling for Cameron by name, to which the unbeaten 140-pound queen immediately answered the call.

“It feels like it was yesterday I was in Abu Dhabi and became undisputed champion,” Cameron noted during Thursday’s final pre-fight press conference. “I felt like it couldn’t get any bigger. The next day, I asked Jamie what’s next. What can I achieve now? I became undisputed, that was my goal.

“Now I got Katie Taylor. For me that’s bigger than becoming undisputed.”

Cameron-Taylor headlines a DAZN show this weekend from a sold-out 3Arena in Dublin. The bout marks the first ever meeting between unbeaten, undisputed champions—male or female—in the multi-belt era, in addition to Taylor’s first ever pro fight in her home country.

Somewhat lost in the conversation is that Cameron enters this weekend as the defending and fully unified champion, white Taylor is the challenger for the first time since November 2019. Ironically, that moment also came in a 140-pound title fight, when Taylor moved up to face and beat then-WBO titlist Christina Linardatou in Manchester, England.

Cameron was one week away from her 12th pro fight—fittingly versus Anahi Ester Sanchez, who Taylor beat for her first major title in 2017. Cameron won the bout by ten-round shutout and went on to challenge for her first title one fight later, where she shut out unbeaten WBC 140-pound titlist Adriana dos Santos Araujo over ten rounds in October 2020.

From there came a thrilling but decisive win over Mary McGee in their October 2021 WBC/IBF unification bout and then her well-earned points victory over McCaskill—the undisputed welterweight champ who moved down in weight—to add the WBA and WBO belts to her collection.

It was always a dream of Cameron’s to one day face Taylor, though a part of her felt it would always remain limited to just that—a dream.

An uncharacteristic callout by Taylor through social media changed all of that in an instant.

“Anyone in this division or around this division wants to fight Katie Taylor,” noted Cameron. “She’s a pound-for-pound champion. You want to challenge yourself.

“I never thought I’d get to fight Katie Taylor but now we’re here.”

Cameron is a +162 underdog according to bet365, despite entering as the bigger fighter who attempts the fifth defense of at least one major title. Taylor is listed as a -200 favorite by the same sportsbook.

Jake Donovan is a senior writer for BoxingScene.com. Twitter: @JakeNDaBox