Nate Campbell Gets CASC To Change Results
But Did it really change the outcome?
By. Andrew Lapachet
Primer Round Magazine
www.Profightnetwork.com
This week the California Athletic State Comission for whatever reasons took it upon themselves to change the results of Bradley vs. Campbell from a TKO victory for Bradley, to a no-decision. Their excuse for throwing referee David Mendoza under the bus is based on video shot that night showing a head-butt during a Bradley flurry, a head-butt but no blood. The reason you don’t have a chance to see blood is because Bradley lands a perfect right uppercut when Campbell leans forward after the clash of heads. The uppercut then staggers the former lightweight champion into the ropes, where Bradley tags him with many other right and left hand shots. For the next two minutes, Campbell fought on with the cut never showing signs of being blind or even asking the referee to stop the fight. The only question Campbell had was if Mendoza had ruled the cut by head-butt.
It wasn’t until the end of the round that Campbell decides he did not want to continue, with 28 seconds left in the round, the WBC champion staggered Campbell into the ropes then preceded to beat the aging veteran until the bell rang. As soon as the bell rang the man once known as Galaxy Warrior walks back to his corner and ask over ten times for the fight to be stopped with out the doctor even looking at his eye yet.
At one point Campbell yelled at his corner-man, “Jimmy I can’t see” and when his corner-man didn’t pay any attention to him, Campbell yelled at him louder, “Jimmy!! Stop the fight!”
All this was said before the doctor had even looked at his eye, and when the doctor did look at his eye, Campbell tells him the same thing he was telling his team, “I can’t see, I can’t see out this eye I see spots in it!” So, the doctor tells him, “If you can’t see out of this eye at all we have to stop the fight. Campbell responds, “I see spots in it.” Doctor then tells him, “ If you can’t see out of this eye were done.”
Meaning he never made a decision on the cut because he never even looked at the cut, the fighter ducked out before he could.
So how did Campbell win a court case on a cut that was never determined by the ringside physician unable to proceed? Where was the proof that the head-butt caused the spots in the eyes, which made him quit the fight? He did say spots and not blood? Anyone else think Campbell knew if he would of said blood they could of and would of patched his you know what up and sent him back in there for another three minutes. Campbell was smart said spots and looked for the easiest way to an exit sign.
It wasn’t until after the fights over you see Campbell interested in what David Mendoza called the accidental clash of heads. Nate knew if he would of asked first before ducking out, he would have had to continue fighting. So, he bailed out first and asked questions after. Smart move by the former champion to get a TKO loss off the record thru the courts but it’s not a move he’s going to benefit from; seriously, anyone who watched the fight knows what happened. The CSAC of course didn’t watch the fight or hear referee David Mendoza’s argument on why he stopped the fight. They just seen a clip of the head butt (maybe), probably a picture, and made a decision.
In this case its probably going to end up being the wrong decisions because instead of making Campbell prove his argument on why he quit that fight, they let him change it right on camera and didn’t challenge it once. Then rewarded him by changing the ruling of the referee from TKO to No-Decision, just imagine how many fighters are going to open up cases feeling the referee did something wrong, or didn’t catch something that the cameras did.
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