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By Lyle Fitzsimmons - World championships and newlywed status didn’t change Nate Campbell.
So it’s not too surprising that assorted financial nonsense hasn’t done it either.
Last seen in a ring - alone - after being stood up a few months back by an unwilling Joan Guzman, the three-pronged king of the lightweights has spent many subsequent days trying to undo the monetary mess created by that failure to launch in Mississippi.
But his ability to fill up a reporter’s notebook hasn’t changed a bit.
“It’s frustrating, but it’s just something that had to happen,” said Campbell, who holds the IBF, WBA and WBO belts at 135 pounds. “I’m a prize fighter, and sometimes when you’re a prize fighter the ball bounces in strange directions for you. For me, this is one of those strange directions.”
Prompted when Guzman weighed in over the limit and later reneged at the last minute on a pledge to go through with a non-title bout, Campbell said the bout’s cancellation denied him nearly $500,000 of purse and “performance bonus” monies from promoter Don King. [details]
So it’s not too surprising that assorted financial nonsense hasn’t done it either.
Last seen in a ring - alone - after being stood up a few months back by an unwilling Joan Guzman, the three-pronged king of the lightweights has spent many subsequent days trying to undo the monetary mess created by that failure to launch in Mississippi.
But his ability to fill up a reporter’s notebook hasn’t changed a bit.
“It’s frustrating, but it’s just something that had to happen,” said Campbell, who holds the IBF, WBA and WBO belts at 135 pounds. “I’m a prize fighter, and sometimes when you’re a prize fighter the ball bounces in strange directions for you. For me, this is one of those strange directions.”
Prompted when Guzman weighed in over the limit and later reneged at the last minute on a pledge to go through with a non-title bout, Campbell said the bout’s cancellation denied him nearly $500,000 of purse and “performance bonus” monies from promoter Don King. [details]
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