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Bradley defended his WBO junior welterweight title before a sellout crowd at The Show at Agua Caliente Casino Resort Spa, scoring a technical knockout after the third round.
Campbell said he couldn't see after the round, claiming an accidental head-butt by Bradley injured his left eye. The doctor called the fight, and referee David Mendoza ruled that a punch caused the gash and eye injury, resulting in the TKO.
Campbell and his corner claim the fight should have been ruled a no-contest because Bradley's incidental head-butt was to blame for the injury, and four rounds hadn't been completed.
According to Terry Trekas, one of Campbell's promoters, the fighter went to the hospital after the fight. His injury was diagnosed as a vitreous hemorrhage, bleeding into the eye that blocks light from reaching the retina. The doctors said Campbell's vision should clear up by the end of week at the latest, Trekas said.
“The most important thing was there was no permanent injury to the eye,” Trekas said in a phone interview Monday.
As for the appeal, Trekas said he retained an attorney Monday to handle it. Campbell and his camp will present their case to the California State Athletic Commission that the TKO should be changed to a no-contest.
“It's not even debatable, in my opinion,” Trekas said.
The CSAC will likely make a decision at its next meeting on Aug. 24, said spokesman Luis Farias.
“At the end of day, the commission will do what they think is best,” Trekas said, “and we'll trust that process.”
At the end of the fight Saturday, Bradley said the head-butt was inconsequential.
“I was just doing my job. It didn't matter what was going to happen with the head-butt,” Bradley said. “He was getting older and older throughout the fight.”
Bradley won all three rounds on each of the three judges' scorecards, and he promised that would have continued.
“If it wasn't stopped in the third, you were going to see a beatdown,” Bradley said. “I was just getting started. It was going to get better.”
Trekas said Campbell would have rebounded.
“In a 12-round fight, it's really premature to say how it goes after three,” he said. “Nate's a veteran fighter that does his best work in the middle to late rounds, so it's like saying who's going to win the Daytona 500 after 10 laps.”
Campbell would like to prove himself against Bradley again, but the chance of a rematch is remote.
“As much as we want it, I don't see this rematch happening any time soon,” Trekas said, “so we'll probably have to go in another direction.”
Note: For a video recap of the fight, including discussion of the head-butt see mydesert.com
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