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Guys, below I bring you my Roger Mayweather piece from over at The Sporting Blog. Due to the blatant hotness of the woman, there’s a lot of speculation out there about whether the relationship between Rog and “Guard Your Grill” St. Vil (and allow me to add… that is one seriously hot nickname) was, dah, beyond professional. I guess we’ll be hearing about that soon enough.

To sum up, my take is that this incident hurts Floyd the promoter much more than it hurts Floyd the boxer. In my opinion, Floyd needs a compelling 24/7 to get this fight up on the marquee of people’s minds, and when one of the major characters of the ongoing miniseries of his life is out there choking women out and making them spit blood, well, it definitely makes the Evil Empire of the Mayweathers seem almost too evil for prime time. It’s hard to laugh about what a rollicking crazyass character ole Uncle Rog is when you dwell on that shit too much. 24/7 had done a nice job of putting the grandmother abuse in the rear-view mirror, but this thing brings it all back home. Darkness visible, innit?

What do you dudes think? Does this incident have any lasting impact on the Mayweather/Marquez promotion or does it blow over? Or does it (I shudder to write this) maybe even help the promotion?

The Roger Mayweather Incident (The Sporting Blog)
“…you have to wonder if this recent storyline with Uncle Rog isn’t too gruesome for even HBO to want to face head on. The 24/7 series has been built on celebrating the antics of the Mayweathers, but this, choking a woman and making her spit blood, is nothing to celebrate, to put it mildly. The situation at the very least will remove Roger from the light of the cameras, and even more, may cast a pall over the coverage of the whole Mayweather training camp.”

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I like Nate Campbell, I always have. But I have to say that the poetic justice as to the way last night’s fight finished up was staggering. I mean… the Galaxxy Warrior, one of the great headbutt artists of his generation, going out like that and screaming to the heavens about a headbutt? Dear God, it was just too perfect.

The best win of Nate’s career came last year over Juan Diaz, and having watched that fight recently I remain of the opinion that Nate’s victory over Diaz primarily can be attributed to his expert use of his noggin as a weapon. He brutalized Diaz with his head from the first bell, opened the cut that threw Diaz way off his game, and then went after it like a surgeon with his fists and, well, his head. It was headwork of the highest order, basically, and I honestly don’t think he would have won that fight without it. Diaz was prepared to go to war in there, and he’s quite a warrior. He was stepping up his workrate in the second round and Nate was starting to lose steam. No cut, no blood, and I think Diaz would have battled it out and maybe even stopped Nate.

But whatever – cuts are a part of the game, and Diaz obviously doesn’t deal with them very well. Plus, if only Diaz had hired a competent cutman that night he might have been able to get out clean, because his cut wasn’t that bad. In fact, it was strikingly similar to the cut Nate suffered last night – significant, and in a bad place, but in general the type of material that a qualified cut-guy can work with.

Would Nate’s corner have been able to stop his cut from bleeding into his eye? We’ll never know, but I’m prepared to say unequivocally that… yes they would have. Led by trainer John David Jackson, that’s one very pro crew Campbell’s got behind him. When Nate got back to his corner after the third round last night, screaming before he even sat down that he couldn’t see and the fight needed to be stopped and it was a butt, he butted me, I can’t see, where’s the doctor?… the first thing his cornerman said to him was, “you’re all right… it’s not that bad.”

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