Campbell-Ortiz, Khan-Marquez – News
February 2nd, 2010
By Dan Ambrose: ESPN writer Dan Rafael is reporting that Golden Boy Promotions is looking to put together a fight between light welterweight contender Victor Ortiz and former lightweight champion Nate Campbell for a bout that would take place on May 15th. The idea here is to put the Campbell-Ortiz fight on the undercard of a light welterweight bout between 36-year-old Juan Manuel Marquez and World Boxing Association light welterweight champion Amir Khan.
Putting young relatively unknown fighters against older better known ones has become the quick – and safe – way for promoters to get a name for their fighters without the risk of putting them in against a contender than might actually beat them. As we saw with Ortiz, he failed miserably when he was put in with Maidana and it looks like they don’t want to take chances by matching him too hard again.
Campbell was an excellent lightweight, but since moving up to light welterweight, he didn’t look nearly as impressive in his last fight, a 3 round no contest against Timothy Bradley. That fight may have been just a fluke, but if Campbell ends up struggling against Ortiz, he may need to consider trying to somehow move back down to lightweight if he can still make the weight class.
Ortiz, 5’9”, will have a two inch height advantage over Campbell and likely a considerable speed and power advantage as well. Campbell was a good puncher at lightweight, but he doesn’t look nearly as powerful at light welterweight.
As for Khan, Golden Boy is counting on a win over the great Marquez as making a name for Amir. It’s unfortunate that they don’t want to match Khan up against WBA light welterweight interim champion Maidana, who the WBA has ordered Khan to fight. Golden Boy Promotions CEO Richard Schaefer says that he wants to have Maidana get more exposure in the United States before matching him and Khan up against each other.
However, some people don’t buy that, and think that Khan is being kept purposely away from Maidana because of the very real potential that Maidana could knock Khan out. Khan was already destroyed in one brutal round when he attempted to go up against another big puncher in Breidis Prescott in 2008. While some people say that Khan’s chin has improved since he moved up in weight last year to the light welterweight division, there’s no way of testing that theory because Khan hasn’t faced any big punchers since being knocked out by Prescott.
It’s still unknown if Marquez will even take the fight with Khan. Nothing has been confirmed with this fight yet. From the looks of it, Marquez appears to be serving as the trial horse for Khan and that seems rather strange because Marquez is still a champion, is much better known than the British fighter, and Khan is someone who may never pan out. He already failed in his one test against a big puncher. He could fail again once he’s put in with someone that can punch with any power.
There are many boxing fans who feel that Khan could end up being exposed again when/if he finally is matched up against a good fighter like Maidana, Timothy Bradley, Devon Alexander, Kendall Holt, Ortiz or Ricardo Torres, to name just a few of the fighters in the light welterweight division that could potentially give Khan troubles. Schaefer recently mentioned wanting to match Khan against the following fighters in order: Marquez, Zab Judah and Floyd Mayweather Jr.
If Khan was to take those fights, he could potentially make a ton of money before facing other threats in the division. In doing so, if Khan ends up getting exposed again and again by those fighters later on, it won’t matter anymore because Khan will have made a ton of money in fights against Marquez, Judah and Mayweather.
Tags: Campbell vs. Ortiz, Khan vs. Marquez ,Amir Khan, Juan Manuel Marquez, Nate Campbell, Victor Ortiz18 Responses to “Campbell-Ortiz, Khan-Marquez – News”
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This is ridiculous.. KHAN IS NOT AVOIDING MAIDANA… he has to debut in USA first and Marquez or Malinaggi would give Khan an exciting fight…Think!
Khan will fight him, he has to, cuz he ant giving up the belt and shaefer, freddie, khan all saying lets build the fight it could be huge….Think!
Marquez is only done if he loses badly to Khan. This guy is good don’t be fooled by his performance against Floyd ( although i must say Marquez did look to struggle with the new weight he put on ). I think its possible that Floyd can make anyone look bad on the night because of his style. Khan will have a fight on his hands and he is a little taller than Marquez. So if Khan wants to play the moving game in the ring we should be asking,” can he outbox Marquez?” I’ll wait for the bell to find out.
i hope marquez knocks out Khan~!
Goods fights good fights.go ortiz and Marquez!!
FOR WHAT I SEE IN YOU GUYS,I THINK THAT MARQUEZ IS DONE , BUT I DON’T THINK SO, BUT IF YOU HAVE THE CHANCE TO WATCH THE FIGHT. WE WILL SEE KNOCK OUT A LITTLE BRITISH FROM A MEXICAN WARRIOR.DON’T FORGET WHAT MARQUEZ DID TO YOUR PACTEROID NOW PICTURE HOW IS GOING TO FINISH THAT FIGHT I SEEING KHAN CRYING AND REGRETTED FOR HAVING THAT FIGHT AGAINST MARQUEZ
im guesing you didnt see mitchell take prescot to school, hes not a great boxer, the biggest name on his record is khan 2 years ago, he’s not even worth thinking about. He does seem to be avoiding maidanna ill give you that. As for your coment on him using his head butting tactics to beat old legends, that was 1 fight with unintentional head buts
Khan does have the ability to become a superstar, i do believe that. His speed coupled with his offensive ability is second to none. He could take out many big names over the next few years, starting with Marquez. Khan has such good power that it is off-putting to attack him and you cannot back off because thats just playing into his hands.
No more slip-ups Amir and you will be the next big thing.
Khan vs marquez? wow he fighting the guy mayweather just beat so he gets my vote for this one! id rather pay to watch this than him give maidana or princess malignaggi a boxing lesson!
joey
khan will wipe the floor with dezert storm
hes another over hyped american.
I think Khan will not fight Marquez I heard he wants to fight Paulie Malinaggi and I think he should stick to that fight so he can lose a decision unless he wants to lose gettting knocked out then he should fight Marquez. Marquez is still strong and has experience something you have to build. Khan says he will beat all the bums in the U.S. I agree Khan you would beat bums but not boxers. Khan was Ko’d in 1 round cmon let’s be serious here. Timothy Bradley would take Khan to school and everyone knows it. But he won’t fight Bradley so I doubt he will fight Marquez.
xAUGUSTUSx, if you think Marquez (even Campbell) will give up their boxing futures by taking a fall, even with 1 to 3 years left, you don’t know boxing.
Marquez is gonna knock out khan with that glass jaw of his. I think ortiz cambell will be good exchange of punches
GBP go and sign fighters so they can pay them to lose. They are fixing fights and manufacturing fighters. Campbell will come out of shape against Ortiz just to make Ortiz look good. Marquez will come in out of shape or just not bring his A game against Khan. Ruiz will take a dive to Haye and go down early just raise Haye’s stock. Mark my words this will happen.
Given the youth of Ortiz and Khan, these are good fights in that they’ll fight proven fighters in Campbell and Marquez while they still have some fight in them. Campbell is a good test for Ortiz, solid fighter overall and not a big puncher, which is what Ortiz needs to test his defensive progress. I pick Ortiz by decision, possibly a KO in the middle to late rounds. Marquez lasted 12 rounds with Mayweather, who’s every bit as fast and stronger than Khan, together with Marquez being one of the best counterpunchers in boxing, not to mention giving Pacquiao all he could handle , so my vote goes to Marquez.
Khan vs Marquez will be a major sell out fight!
people are acting like marquez is done, as if he needs to be handled with felt gloves. last time i checked this is boxing and khan is a young champion. last time marquez was in that situation he came out with a win in the fight of the year against diaz.
Whoa Victor, Nate Campbell, better not loose your heart in the ring with this guy, because he is all heart ask the “baby bull”. Nate got ripped off with a head butt in his last outting with Bradley, unfortunetly he is getting older. He’ll be there, all the same for at least the next 2 years, I believe. Kahn or Marquez would be a better choice, Victor. It’s going to be up hill any which way, but you need to get past a top fighter to reach the championship.
Amere Con is still fighting aging boxing legends that are too small for him. He fights them with his cheating headbutt tactics. The thing that is stupid is the fact that Amere Con does not know why people hate him. Amere Con is too scared to fight someone who is still in their prime like Breidis Prescott or Marcos Maidana.