Luke Campbell next opponent

Anything with a pulse would be an improvement

 

Campbell despite his age is a rookie in the pro game, everyone always highlights how different the pro game is to the amateurs yet when an amatuer turns pro like Campbell they seem to forget the difference and expect them to be rushed.
Turning pro at any level takes some ad******g to, if we want future world champions then we need to give them time to develop in the pro game if not we will be known simply as providing journeymen world challengers like Murray and Macklin. (Rate both but thrown in as fodder in my opinion especially Murray)

 

Totally agree mate and the way this has worked with frankie Gavin billy jo Saunders and deglae speaks volume for its succes

 

True but if you look at other olympians like Usyk, Murata, Lomachenko they have all been matched competitively from the word go. Im not saying Campbell should be thrown in the deep end but he should be put in with tough opposition that will challenge him.

And before you use the argument that Lomachenko lost it was a ver close fight which could have gone either way and he learned more in that one fight than most pro's would learn in there first 15-20 fights

Look at Naoya Inoue was good amatuer , 20 years old ,6 fights and his already a world champion

 

Murata or naoya inoue didnt have any WSB experience and there still matched hard from the start.

Same with Callum Smith he had a few easy fights then in his last two the tried to challenge him, and his 3 years younger than Campbell and doesnt have anywhere near his amateur pedigree

They just need to up the level of competition so his challenged and his not just going through the motions in their and learning nothing

 

Yes but Campbell was a top amateur ,Smith wasnt and is 3 years younger.

Im not saying he should be thrown in with former world champions but he should be put in with a good level of oposition that can challenge him

Back to inoue and Murata in with good competion from the get go and its doing them the world of good

 

The difference with Campbell is that he is 27, not 20. At his age he will get one shot, he can't afford 2 or 3 defeats before reaching world level. A much younger fighter has the luxury of taking a few tougher fights early on and a loss isn't the end of the career as there are plenty years left in the tank. Campbell has 5 to 6 years to reach the top before retiring. Guide him to world champion by 30 (3 years at 3 or 4 fights a year meaning on top
of his 5 already, challenging for a world title with 17 fights behind him which still isn't a lot. He can't risk moving to quickly as one defeat would set him back at least a year.

 

Murata's 28 and their moving quickly with him and he wasnt as good an amateur as Campbell imo. So whats the differance?

 

No mate I ws being sarcastic ,the point I was making is that our way of bringing this fighters on slowly in poorly matched fights where they learn nothin has not worked for Gavin bjs or deglae infect after 6 years they are still not champions ,

 

Simple really, money.

Murata isn't earning unless he his on the world stage hence the move quickly. Campbell can afford to take his time, earn some decent purses and take less risks.