Chantelle Cameron ('Wham Bam Chan') pugile

Chantelle Cameron (born 14 May 1991) is a British professional boxer. She is a world champion in two weight classes, having held the WBC female light-welterweight title since 2020; the IBF and Ring female light-welterweight titles since October 2021; and the IBO female lightweight title from 2017 to 2019.As an amateur, she won a silver medal in the light-welterweight division at the 2010 EU Championships in Keszthely, Hungary, and a bronze in the lightweight division at the 2011 EU Championships in Katowice, Poland, losing to Ireland's Katie Taylor in the semi-finals.Chantelle Cameron was born on 14 May 1991, in Northampton, England. She credits her love for combat sports to watching films starring Jean-Claude Van Damme and television programme Buffy the Vampire Slayer, stating: "I loved all those fighting films. Kickboxer would have to be my favourite Van Damme film. The fighting in it is unreal. I loved Buffy because of the fight scenes and the fact she was a female role model." Cameron's introduction to combat sports was through kickboxing at the age of 10, moving on to Muay Thai at 16. After a successful amateur career—in which she remained undefeated, winning amateur titles in the IKF and WAKO—she switched to boxing at the age of 18.Cameron won two English women's national championships; the ABA Championships in 2010, and the ABAE Championships in 2015. She reached the quarter-finals of the 2010 AIBA World Championships, losing to eventual silver medalist Vera Slugina of Russia. She also won a silver medal at the 2010 EU Championships, and bronze the following year at the 2011 EU Championships, losing in the semi-finals to eventual winner Katie Taylor of Ireland.