Will Mayweather Jr. be facing Nate Campbell next?
January 12th, 2010
By Chris Williams: According to Boxing Talk, former IBF/WBA/WBO lightweight champion Nate Campbell (33-5-1, 25 KO’s) could be the next opponent for unbeaten Floyd Mayweather Jr. for March 13th or whatever date that Golden Boy Promotions decides on making the fight. The question about whether Mayweather would be facing the 37-year-old Campbell was put to Golden Boy CEO Richard Schaefer, who said “No comment.”
The fight was stopped because of a cut that Campbell has suffered due to a head butt. At the time of the stoppage, Campbell wasn’t looking that great, missing with many of his shots and looking slightly sluggish at the new weight class. If Campbell, 5’7”, was to get a shot against Mayweather, it would mean that Campbell would have to put on even more weight to fight Mayweather at welterweight.
One has to wonder whether Campbell would be slowed down at welterweight. Also, Campbell will be turning 38 in March, which is an advanced age for fighters in the lower weight classes. However, if Campbell does get picked, it would be in keeping with Mayweather’s recent trend of fighting smaller opponents than him.
Mayweather is 5’8”, and would have an inch height advantage over Campbell in addition to his huge speed advantage. It’s unclear how boxing fans would take the news of Campbell getting the pick by Mayweather.
Some would wonder why Mayweather is fighting a light welterweight rather than someone from his own weight class, while others might wonder why Mayweather is picking an older fighter to mix it up with. Campbell was great as a lightweight, but he hasn’t proven anything at light welterweight in his one bout. To be sure, the fight against Bradley ended quickly after three rounds, but Campbell wasn’t shining at the time of the stoppage.
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MAYWEATHER IS GOING TO SQUEAK OUT A CLOSE DESCION AGAINST MOSLEY KINDA LIKE THE DLAHOYA FIGHT THEN HE IS GOING TO KNOCK OUT PACMAN LATE LIKE HE DID HATTON STYLE MAKES FIGHTS. AND THE FLIPSIDE IS BOTH MOSLEY AND PAC GOT POWER AND THE ONLY WAY THEY WIN IS BY KO AND FLOYD DOES HAVE A CHIN AND DEFENSE MY PIC IS ON MONEY…
I know this may not matter to anyone…but i know Mr Nate Campbell personally…and he is thee most humble, laid back family oriented man there is.
He is very private and very focused business man and boxer.
I know that may not matter, but, sometimes it is the one that everyone doubts that will come out victorious and SHOCK THE WORLD! DROP JAWS AND CAUSE A MOVEMENT!!
I am soo anxious though to see who gets this card!! And I am really enjoying everyones views…very insightful man!!
WOW! I have been reading up on everyones opinions and views and thought and one stood out the most to me…
from WOWZABEAN: 12/12 AT 5:47PM: But it is BOTH CAMP’s fault that it lead up to shear animosity and hatred on both sides. Nobody wanted to budge, nobody cared about the fans, nobody cared about the sport of boxing.
WOWZABEAN LIKE YOU SAID NOONE CARES ABOUT THE FANS!!!! I mean honestly…aren’t we the ones that make this whole boxing world go round? Arent we the ones that will make Mayweather and these other people BILLIONAIRES!! It is OUR money that will do that. From the tickets to the mafia betz!!!
WHAT ABOUT US! I think Mayweathers camp should put out a poll for THE FANS TO DECIDE WHO FIGHTS HIM!!!
What do you think?
Floyd “I-love-my-donut” Mayweather Jr. is being his usual yellow, cowardly self. Unwilling to put on the line his precious “0″, and instead cherry-picks his opponent. While Paulie “Wants-his-cracker” Malignaggi is green with envy for not being seriously considered as an opponent to Mayweather.
Well, if Mayweather decides to take on Malignaggi instead as his next opponent they should call this fight as “Mayweather-Malignaggi: The battle of peanut M&M’s.” Mayweather is the “Yellow” M&M while Malignaggi is the “Green” M&M. Then maybe they should wear M&M costumes just to make their dancing in the ring more entertaining.
Mayweather has fought two people in the last two years, both of them undersize opponents.
Hatton; Though undefeated @ 140, allready showed he couldn’t handle true welter weights in the fights leading up to Floyd.
Marquez; Very gifted but a much smaller man, not even a real Jr. Welter.
I know Floyd has impeccable skills, but is this the record of someone who should be rated #2 p4p?
Until Floyd fights a credible opponenet @ welter or above he’s not even worthy of discussion any more.
Oh c’mon Floyd.. You’re cherry pickin again. Are you relly figthin nate campbell next? Your crazy!
Oh goody goody! Another old, undersized and underweight fighter to blow up to 147 for Floydie. Then he comes in 2 lbs over the limit and just pays the fine . HA HA HA HA
Floyd to fight Campbell(37 year old), Malinaggi(no power, 2nd class fighter, & an airhead), Cintron(demolished by Margarito twice)? Floyd not in same level of the 3 above. I wanna see him fight either Mosley, Cotto, Bradley, or Margarito. But Cotto though my first choice for Floyd.
floyd announcement this morning:
to all boxing fans watch out this coming march 13 the mega fight would happen at dallas cowboys.no need for blood testing.this is very interesting fight that never happened in boxing history. the name for this event is 2 in 1 pound for pound king. the main bout is MANNY PACQUIAO VS. FLOYD MAYWEATHER AND JOSUA CLOTTY. DON’T MISS IT.
BREAKING NEWS:
floyd and golden boy promotion withdraws the random blood test via e-mail thru teddy atlas to fight manny this coming march 13 cuz manny was already scheduled to fight clotty.
who ever mayweather jr will doesn’t matter. wish get knockout like the tyson vs douglas match. heavy favorite tyson lose to douglas.
Kermit Cintron! to compete with Pac./Clotty
Duke
Didn’t you get the e-mail from Teddy Atlas that PBF mistakenly type 14 instead of 24. Ask for a copy
you claim to be unbias but wonder why i like floyd. that doesn’t make sense. neither does the line about if floyd didn’t talk about being p4p champ, you wouldn’t care what he does. you are contridicting what you claim to be. floyd talks a lot of trash. he’s been doing it since 98. aint nothing new. yet your surprise that he’s claiming to be the best? what you should be thinking about is how much alike floyd and manny are. they have been cherry picking ever since moving up towards welter. manny followed the exact same route to claim floyd’s former spot by beating oscar and ricky. cotto was done in by margarito. i’m glad that manny is facing clottey who isn’t damaged but he should have sucked it up and signed the fight with floyd. too bad he knew he couldn’t win but thankfully that eliminated manny being outboxed for all you manny lovers.
wowzabean
i need a college degree to do what? spend the day writing crap on the net. what a waste of your parents money. it doesn’t matter who would have won the fight but you would pay a grand to see floyd laid out. stop trying to ride the fence and fess up to being a floyd hater. what did he do to you? you probably don’t like his big mouth. i on the hand seperate the talk from the action in the ring. i guess they don’t teach everything in college.
wowzabean
if manny wants to fight at 147, he should be fighting with 10 ounce gloves like the rest of them. not pillows as you think they are. manny wants to keep this image of the little power puncher that could and he’s gonna demand 8 ounce gloves against clottey. if you wanna fight with 8 ounce, go back down to 140 and face bradley. manny gets a whole lotta slack for not agreeing to the random blood testing. i guess it pays to be a nice guy. the fact is that floyd was all bad for manny. manny has never dominated a pure puncher. ask marquez! all these manny lovers can rejoice cause floyd would have stunk out the joint by boxing manny’s block off.
Most of you are so stupid I dont why I am bothering to comment. Mayweather and Manny are 2 totally different fighters. If Mayweather fought Cotto he would do what he has done nearly every fight and just out class him so if it did happen its pointless comparing the fights & pointless comparing any fight to predict who would win if they fought eachother.
Its a pretty pointless fight if he picks Campbell and I know which fight I will be watching on March 13th if he does. He needs to fight a good Welterweight or an undefeated one not some washed up Lightweight. He always brings up fighters defeats and Campbell has lost to 5 nobodys.
wowzabean
floyd given into manny’s demands. stiff penalties for coming in overweight and 8 ounce gloves. boxing people know its costumary to wear 10 ounce gloves for welters and up. so floyd wasn’t afraid of manny’s power. but he wanted to make sure manny didn’t have more of an advantage. that was floyd only demand during negotiations. is that too much to ask for? just because manny is a nice guy doesn’t mean he’s not juiced. there is only one way to prove he’s not and its random testing up to the event. that’s how advance these drugs are nowadays.
regarding the random blood tests deadline, manny wanted 30 days before mediation and comprimise to 24 days. floyd offered 14 days to meet in the middle and manny refused. then you have freddie roach talking on espn saying that manny doesn’t feel good 3 days after a blood test so he would have at least 11 days to get back to optimal condition. point being, manny didn’t want the fight. because he like floyd picks fights they know they can win.
I agree that if Pac destroys Clottey….mayweather will never fight him. I want to see Mayweather against Cotto or P. Williams.
campbell quit against bradley and he’s in the running to fight floyd? i know floyd wants to fight PPV and the only fighter out there that can make it PPV worthy is bradley. if it aint bradley on march 13, just wait for the mosely vs berto winner.
LOL….haha these comments are hilarious guys. I am a TRUE boxing fan. Pacquiao is my fav fighter to watch right now but I watch all fights. Some comments make sense. Others are simply comedy. If pacquiao camp sent emails about possible penalities for juicing. Where are the actual emails? Also, in his lawsuit, that is one of the things listed as a reason for lawsuit. That GBP and Mayweathers stated to a news media outlet that pac mans people sent him emails about said penalties if found positive. Why sue in the first place if there are actual emails of this nature?? pure comedy.
This will shed a light on everythinng.
youtube.com/watch?v=xsaAo1RC_aI
News flash–Teddy Atlas has just done interviewing Floyd. Floyd has decided to move out into Mexico where he said and I quote, “…where I’m appreciated and loved”. He will never fight here in the USA anymore.
Floyd may wither as he is running out of options, d’ya really think this nate campbell is a good fighter or will it be another MISMATCH! dumb, coward and loose mouthed Floyd, next time should you wish to be treated with respect, be gracious and watch your loose mouth as they go so much astray as you would have to chase it now…
Teddy Atlas confirmed via E-mail that PBF accepted the 24 day blood test today but Pacman just laughed at it. Now, that’s what you call a second round knock-out by my boy.
I tell all my friends not to watch any Mayweather fights. We’re so tired of his nonsense demand. This is professional boxing. Rule is rule. If you want your rules go to other places china, korea, jpan, thailand, or in the Philippines, not in Neveda.
Call me crazy, but even with Pacquiao around I still think that Mohammed Ali is the best of all time and I am Filipino. Mohammed Ali was/is the best, but I do not know his record. I bet neither do you. But I know he beat some of the best names in Boxing such as Sonny Liston, George Foreman, Fraizer, Norton, etc. So heres my point. Its not the Record, its the opponents whom he beat that sets the best boxers apart from the rest. And heres one more thing, Tyson, Ali, Pacquiao are some of the best perhaps its because they did not duck any formidable challengers. That is why Mayweather is doubtfully one of the elites even with 40-0 recored. So who wants to call me crazy?
Teddy Atlas confirmed via E-mail that PBF accepted the 24 day blood test today and it was accepted by PAC but his schedule is booked on March 13
blah im a fan of both pac and may but if this is the counter option to pac/clottey then bob arum just made 60 bux. It was clear that bradley was beating campbell after 3 and he is begging for this fight why not choose him? It doesnt do much to help the ducker label.
This cant be true. How much more respect does Mayweather want to lose. If he wants to pick a smaller fighter then he hould fight Bradley who was givig cambell a clinic. You can even say Bradley made Cambell quit.
as a true fan of boxing i would like to appeal to all the
fans out there to support the cause of our beloved champion that olympic style blood testing should be
strictly imposed to all mayweathers opponents. so as to
protect our beloved floyd and to make sure that all his
opponent is not under some influence of drugs and other
banned substances and to have undue advantage come fight night… we cared so much.
Golden Boy needs to dump this chump before he brings down this empire. Who ever fights Mayweather should have the Pain killer clause. Floyd with out numbing his hands won’t beat Campbell
Mayweather better not go that rout…He needs to face someone at 154 or a solid 147 fighter in my opinion…Campbell wouldn’t land a punch…maybe thats a good thing…it would be more like a open sparring session…could be fun to watch…
Is the Philippines known for making the best ‘roids?
Is the E-mail a set-up for his big lawsuit? I would be very careful if I were floyd’s camp/GBP.
hey how about mayweather vs amir khan? what do you think?
Tim Smith reported that pacman appeared to be juicing. Pac may not know this himself but why would his camp send an e-mail to floyd’s camp asking about the penalty if caught juicing? Teddy Atlas reported the same news.
Campbell is an old man and too small. I would rather see Floyd fight Malinaggi. When will floys fight someone his own size? How about Kermit Cintron at least – someone with one punch KO power. Floyd’s got no guts. While we’re at it, I would rather see Floyd fight Mosley than Pac. Pac is smaller than Floyd too. I did here the fight might be in April on HBO. If they move off the same date as Pac, that’s great and if the fight is on HBO even better. Floyd is probably afraid to compete with Pac’s PPV #s. Plus if he’s on HBO the complaints about his opponent will be lessened.
if mayweather fights campbell. Do you think its exciting as pacman vs clotty at the same date? if mayweather continues his style of handpicking opponent. this will not be a sellout. it will helps the pac vs clotty fight. i want to see the pacman vs clotty fight and a added bonus is the dallas cowboy cheerleaders hurrayy!!!
I love Money but if he fights this chump iam going to be mad.Why not fight Timothy Bradley or Citron
Why not Valero? He’s a lightweight and available, the only problem is he’s a Top Rank prodigy and he knocks out everyone that he fought.
How about him FM and GBP?
Another lightweight like JMM moving up 2 weight divisions. When is this going to end? Pathetic.
MGM’s capacity is 18,000 seats. It will be configured for 600 for Mayweather vs Campbell fight. GBP will be throwing away 600 complimentary tickets!
li’l floyd will still be scared of campbell.
another small fighter?
If he wants to match the Pac/Clottey fight, he should fight PWill or Margarito or Cotto. If he can’t then don’t fight on the 13th.
It’s better to face Sergio Martinez rather than the old and not on the same level fighter like nate campbell which will be bloated on the day of the fight.He has been beaten by Bradley and noting spectacular or exciting.Floyd pls don’t engineer again a sure win.Make a better choice give the fans a great fight not be obsess on your ZERO lost.It will be a boring fight since Nate is on 140 and going up just for you just to make his biggest payday.Dont duck the best fighters.You cannot be great like Ali,Fraizer,Tyson,Holyfield,Foreman.Sugar ray even if they have Lost record they are still the greatest of all time.
Mayweather is a complete and utter joke.
Teddy Atlas confirmed today in his interview of Floyd that Mayweather seriously considers Bobby Pacquiao as his next fight on March 13, 2010.
Mortyz, Ivan Calderon punches way to hard for Floyd… he has a few TKO victories at his name only a few years back. And he’s to big and heavy for Floyd
As they go on their separate ways, it dampens the appetite of the non-boxing fans and the the die hards who whetted their appetite at the thought of Pac/Mayweather demolition derby. Truly, it’s the PPV that will suffer the most. How will force yourself to buy into a far less exciting fight? Why don’t they just offer these fight on free channels? That will destroy PPV altogether.
News Flash…Floyd on his interview this morning said that he considers Ivan calderon as his next opponent on March 13, 2010. This seems a better match against Nate Campbell!
I suggest Mayweather to fight his father and likewise request his father to take a blood test to determine whether he is clean. I would also suggest Mayweather Sr. to get DLH as his trainer. This will be a very good fight come March the 13th. ALL IN THE FAMILY.
Why does everyone call Mayweather a ducker? Pacquiao decided to duck Yuri Foreman cos he’s too tall. And he’s ducking Paul Williams, Margarito and Mosely by fighting Clottey
I heard somewhere he’s gonna fight Hector Camacho Sr. next! LOL
No, even Floyd has his pride… I can only believe that somebody who really hates Floyd would put this story in the world.
If he really fights Campbell nobody would take him seriously again (or only a guy named EMILIO obviously… LOL), and Floyd knows that.
I don’t think it’s true… I think he fights featherfisted Paulie and that’s it.
if floyd fights bradley i think it will be good as pac is going to beat clottey hands down i dont rate clottey floyd will beat bradley too and if he fights mosley mosley will be made to look like the old man he is
This is absolutely a bad decision by Mayweather to put together this fight. It will further render him into ridicule among the fans.
He need to step up and take on a figher with a marquee name. Tim Bradley or the Punisher. Or maybe even Margarito!
Or do something crazy and move up and fight a middleweight or Super middleweight on a 2nd tier level.
He is doing irrevocable damgage to his reputation.
I think Mayweather should fight Sergio martinez. that would be an entertaining fight. but then again he may a too big of a risk for Mayweather.
MAYWEATHER is the best fighter, and l will watch him fight against anybody.
IF MANNY WANTS HIS NAME BACK HE WILL HAVE TO TAKE THE TEST
if floyd accept nate to be his next opponent i think he needs some advice that nate campbell is not a wrestler, his not in wwe.
can someone tell me of an available welter on march the 13th?berto vs mosley fight is end of jan too soon for them,pac is fighting clottey same date.cotto wont be fighting for a while it seems plus hes a bob arum fighter and marg…well he is fighting on the same cad as pac vs clottey for some reason.
the only guys i can think of are quintana or collazo,but at the end of the day if he doesnt fight mosley vs berto winner even tho its 6 weeks from their fight hel still get called a ducker.
even if he fights and beats bradly people wil say he only beat a light welter…cant win wit ignorant boxing fans
oh cmon people! let’s all pretend we like to see this fight hahaha
Nate Campbell? When was the last time we heard about this guy? This is not a good fight for the fans. I thought Paul Williams and Timothy Bradley are ready to face Floyd? I guess Floyd Mayweather jr does not want to face either of this two boxers, because he knows there is a chance of him losing. Hahha…what a cherry picker!!!
many people are right here. this fight doesnt do any good. this sucks for boxing. time to go watch some ufc now
Typical MAYWEATHER move fight smaller and older men.
Wow if Mayweather really fights Campbell then I suggest Mayweather just retire. This fight is useless and will not get anyone to watch it. If Mayweather really wants to compete with Pacquiao on PPV salesthen he has to fight a bigger name and a fighter that could pose a problem to him making it a fight to watch. But we all know Mayweather will most likely not do that. If he does fight Campbell, can we just all agree that Mayweather is the best P4P ducker of all time who mostly fights fighters in lower weight classes than him then makes them get fat just to fight him? I won’t be watching this fight. I’ll be watching the Pacquiao vs. Clottey fight. Mayweather, this is just pathetic!
Wouldn’t watch this fight. I’m a big mayweather fan but he needs to fight mosley, no doubt about it. I reckon he will beat mosley quite easily plus he will get a load of respect back, he needs to do it
Go home and tell Sr. take a drug test by blood. Shame of you!
This fight is Waste of time!
It is a rediculous fight!
why not fight calderon!!
Mayweather would lose even more respect than what’s already lost. He needs a fighter with a bigger name, buit low risk (so definitely No Punisher Williams)
Why not Timothy Bradley?
Mayweather v Marquez couldn’t even sell out the MGM Grand but did get 1M PPVs with that $25 Tecate rebate promo aimed squarely at the huge US Hispanic market ( 1 of 4 in CA, 1 of 7 nationwide.) Mayweather v Campbell will probably stink out the MGM Grand even more AND not do 1M PPVs even with a $25 Tecate rebate. Schaefer will probably be better off going for Mayweather v Mosley during the Cinco De Mayo weekend.
But of course, that will mean that GBP and the Mayweathers will be conceding that Pacquiao v Clottey will be the better draw , a bitter pill for these jokers!
I hope he doesnt fight Campbell!!! Mayweather will easily beat him, maybe in 4-5 rounds. He should fight either Mosley/Berto, Paul Williams or Tim Bradley. I think he would proberly beat them all though
Let him fight Cambell then winner of Mosley / Berto – Mosley in my opinion