"Look, I'ma tell you like this, styles make fights and Pacquiao is running rampant right now in all these divisions, 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 at the weight of the guy he came up to. There's a problem with the weight. That two pounds makes a difference," stated former lightweight champion Nate Campbell as he shared his thoughts on Manny Pacquiao's dominant win over Miguel Cotto this past Saturday. Campbell was a guest on the OnTheGrind Boxing Radio podcast yesterday and shared his thoughts on a number of subjects, including a potential clash between Pacqiao and Floyd Mayweather, his own future plans and much more.
On his future plans...
"It is what it is. Don King and I haven't been seeing eye to eye and you know how Don is. When you don't do what Don wants you to do, you gotta pay. For me, I'm just waiting. I'm in talks right now with Kendall Holt early in the year next year."
"I still want to fight. I'm not so short-sided that I don't understand what I'm here for. I'm a good boxer. That's what I do and as long as I can do that, I can make everything else work. I just want to fight."
"I'm definitely a free agent after May, but I mean, I want to fight before then. I want to fight before then. If things can get done, I'm hoping me and Kendall Holt can get it on."
On Guzman vs. Funeka...
"I'm telling you right now, Funeka is a beast. Funeka is a beast and that's all I have to say about that. That fight...Funeka is the kind of guy that will end a guy's career."
On a potential Mayweather vs. Pacquiao clash...
"I think that fight should be made. If Pacquiao is the greatest, a lot of you say he's the greatest, the best, and Mayweather is undefeated, it should be made. That fight should be made, bar none!"
On Pacquiao's performance against Cotto...
"He fought a good fight. He fought a really good fight. Cotto, he didn't...I don't know what's wrong with Cotto. That's not the Cotto that I'm used to seeing fight. It really isn't because I thought Cotto was going to win the fight...he fought very flat."
"After I saw the fight, I said that pound and a half or two pounds to get down to 145 must have really hurt him. A lot of people don't understand that...what happens is, in the lower weight classes, these weight classes like that, 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 Pacquiao is running rampant right now in all these divisions, 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 at the weight of the guy he came up to. There's a problem with the weight. That two pounds makes a difference."
"What the fuck is a catchweight...if you want to fight the welterweight champion of the world, you gotta fight him at 147 max. Otherwise, as far as I'm concerned, you're not the champion because now you unfairly took advantage over the other guy on the scale. That's what they're doing when they complain about weight. They're doing the guys just the opposite of what Gatti did to Gamache...that's some new age bullshit they done started."
"I feel like until he fights at 147, come on man. Fight a guy at 147 and beat a guy at 147...Pacquiao ain't fighting none of those guys at their actual weight. Pacquiao isn't being made to fight these guys at their weight, why should Floyd be made to fight these guys at their weight? See, it's okay for Manny to get a pass, but it's not okay for Floyd to get a pass. It's not okay for neither one, but what I'm simply saying is no one should get a pass. No one should get a pass. The weight is 47, the fight should be at 47!"
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