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Cardiff-Lad1 wrote:Nathan Cleverly has relinquished the EBU light heavyweight title to concentrate on a world title shot. It will be former WBA king Gabriel Campillo and French veteran Thierry Karl that fight for the vacant title.

Is there much point in winning these titles these days? :)

will he be giving up the british title also??

Jesus wrote:will he be giving up the british title also??

Yes

ducking Campillo?

i did say on another thread i couldn't see him facing campillo, a world class opponent for "just" an EBU title and maybe a harder fight than the world title holder he's eyeing up (braehmer).

Autobarn wrote:i did say on another thread i couldn't see him facing campillo, a world class opponent for "just" an EBU title and maybe a harder fight than the world title holder he's eyeing up (braehmer).

the same campillo that got beat by murat clev smashed murat, braehmer is alot harder fight IMO he has a big big punch on him.

campillo lost a controversial decision to murat and was never any good until he moved up to light heavyweight.

at 175 he's beaten WBA champ shumenov and outclassed him in a rematch.

all fighters match up differently.

for instance, uzelkov KO'd campillo. and campillo got the better of shumenov. and yet shumenov easily beat uzelkov.

don't think any of this tells us how cleverly would fare v campillo. i think he could do without the matchup.

Autobarn wrote:i did say on another thread i couldn't see him facing campillo, a world class opponent for "just" an EBU title and maybe a harder fight than the world title holder he's eyeing up (braehmer).

thats a no brainer to me!

fight a better fighter, for a lesser title. or a lesser fighter for a better title.

if campilo is a world class operator as you say, then cleverly could meet him if/when he's a world champion (which he should if, as you say, breahmer isn't as hard a fight) and if/when campillo makes the step up to world level (which he should if, as you say, he is a world class opponent).