I remember first meeting Morocco?s Said Ouali in the spring of 2007 in the South Florida area. At the time Ouali was in camp with respected trainer John David Jackson and was giving then-lightweight contender Nate Campbell some spirited work as the Jacksonville fighter prepared for his date with Ricky Quiles.
Campbell and I would remain close over the following years but Ouali seemed to slip through the cracks as I never again spotted the welterweight hopeful in the Florida area. It wasn?t until a random visit to Floyd Mayweather?s personal boxing club in Las Vegas nearly three years later that Ouali and I again crossed paths and much has changed in his life.
