Nate Campbell Has Bad Karma with Weight Issues

Lightweight Champion Nate Campbell just lost all three of his title belts Friday afternoon by not making the weight limit for his Lightweight Championship fight with Ali Funeka.

Campbell weighed in the first time at 138 pounds, three over the weight limit. The second attempt, two hours later, he weighed in at 137 1/2. Ali Funeka weighed in under the Lightweight limit at 133 1/2 on his first attempt.

Both camps agreed to go ahead with the fight. If Funeka happens to win the fight, he will obtain all three of Campbell's belts and if Campbell happens to win the fight he will not be able to win his belts back.

Nate Campbell has tasted a bit of bad karma for blasting Joan Guzman for not making the weight last September for their highly anticipated fight, thus causing Campbell to go bankrupt for the fight being canceled.

Joan Guzman was in such desperate need to make weight he over dehydrated himself to the point where he was reportedly vomiting blood and needed to be rushed to the hospital just to make the 135-pound lightweight limit.

It is quite ironic that now five months later Campbell is the one who can not make weight and lost his three belts now.

Campbell might be best known for a couple of things. Hopefully he would like to be known for giving Juan "the Baby Bull" Diaz his first loss and taking Diaz's Lightweight belts that night.

He probably would not want to be known for what he is most notoriously known for: being the fighter who showboated in front of Robbie Peden just a tad bit too long with his hands down, only to get knocked out. 

Usually when one showboats, they do it in a manner that shows off to their opponent that you are too slow to hit me, but they then cover right back up or they have great enough reflexes to evade or slip any punches that may follow the showboating gesture.

But in Campbell's case he showboated just a tad bit too long and once Peden realized this, he knocked him out with one punch.

Campbell looks to move up in weight to 140 pounds after Saturday's fight with Ali Funeka, for he feels he can no longer make 135.

In this day and age, when we have access to new technology, sports medicine, nutritionists, and body conditioners, there is no excuse to not make weight.

True champions always make the weight, at least the greatest ones always do. If you are fighting at a weight class that is simply too low for you to fight at, then move up!

Campbell, whatever you do, try to remember the No. 1 rule of the sweet science, and that is: PROTECT YOURSELF AT ALL TIMES!