Nate Campbell: ”Pacquiao aint beating these guys at their actual weight”

By Boxing News - 11/24/2009 - Comments

pac5553By Liam Santiago: Thank you Nate Campbell. Finally, someone with some sense. Manny Pacquiao has really been boiling my kettle lately with his wins over fighter’s who were either shot, weight drained, or shot and weight drained. However, I am certainly not alone in my thinking, lightweight legend Nate Campbell sides with me. Speaking to fight hype Campbell said, ”that two pounds to get down to 145 must have really hurt him”.

He went on to say, ”A lot of people don’t really understand that…what happens is, in the lower weight classes, it really does a lot to you when you have to take off one pound. Why do you think the weight classes from flyweight to junior bantamweight is three pounds?

”Look, I’ma tell you like this, styles make fights and Pac is running rampant now in all weight classes, but he’s not fighting the full division. All these people are saying ‘aw, man, he’s greater than Henry Armstrong’. No he’s not!! Henry Armstrong fought in a time when there was no middle weight classes, for one, and he fought the weight of the guy he came up to. That two pounds makes a difference. ”

”Fight a guy at 147 and beat a guy at 147. Pacquiao aint fighting any of these guys at their actual weight. Why should Floyd be made to fight these guys at their weight? See, it’s ok for Manny to get a pass, but it’s not ok for Floyd to get a pass. The weight is 47, the fight should be 47!”.

True words from an expert. Not only is it wrong to be fighting these guys at energy draining catch weights, it is even more wrong to fight the champion at that weight and demand he puts his title on the line. Anyone who knows Miguel Cotto or has seen him fight before will understand he was weight dead in that ring against Pacquiao. He was flat and had no snap in his punches. His punches had zero power, he was not even using his legs to punch. Why? Because he was so damn tired and drained.



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