Chantelle Cameron: ‘Boys in the gym looked at me like I was an alien – but I sparred them and held my own’
Chantelle Cameron breathes rarefied air. There are just 12 women on Earth who have reigned as undisputed world champions in boxing, and Cameron is one of them – though the boys she fought as a teenager would have told you she was not of this planet at all.
“The first time I walked into a boxing gym, I was the only female. All the boys were looking at me like I was an alien,” Cameron told , ahead of International Women’s Day. “The coach was like, ‘What are you doing here?’
