Pacquiao vs. Clottey to take place at Cowboy stadium – News
January 10th, 2010
By Dave Lahr: According to Dan Rafael of ESPN, the bout between World Boxing Organization welterweight champion Manny Pacquiao and challenger Joshua Clottey will be taking place at the Dallas Cowboy stadium, in Arlington, Texas. Jerry Jones, the owner of the Dallas Cowboy football team and Dallas Cowboy stadium, was very eager to land the Pacquiao-Clottey fight for his large stadium in Texas. Jones reportedly offered up $25 million site fee for the bout.
The Dallas Cowboy stadium would have been perfect for the Pacquiao vs. Mayweather fight, but it’s unclear whether they will be able sell it out or even come close to selling it out with the Pacquiao-Clottey match up. The stadium seats 100,000. Arum, however, thinks it’s going to be a huge event, even though Clottey isn’t a big star.
“This is going to be one of the biggest events in the history of boxing,” Arum says. It also might be a disappointment. Pacquiao has done well recently with big pay per view bouts, but he’s been blessed by a big name star opposing him. Clottey, good but flawed fighter, isn’t well known to casual boxing fans of the sport. He’s not an Oscar De La Hoya or Floyd Mayweather.
This fight will be a good test to see how popular Pacquiao is. If he can sell out the Dallas Cowboy stadium against Clottey, there would be no reason for Pacquiao to waste time fighting a big named star like Mayweather in the future, even if Mayweather is agreeable to fighting Pacquiao without blood tests for PEDs. Pacquiao could then pick and choose and fight anyone in the top 10, and still do well.
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It will be a good fight, clottey is also a good boxer.
But i think the PACMAN gonna get this one >:) GO FOR THE KILL! MANNY!
Tisk tisk Bob Arum! He obviously knows what he is doing but for f**k sakes this guy can talk the biggest amounts of nonsense. Permanently talking. Wait,Bill Hicks said it best:” Anyone here in advertising?… Kill yourself! no seriously Kill yourself.”
THE PACQUIO-CLOTTEY FIGHT IS NOT BAD, CLOTTEY IS ONE TOUGH FIGHTER,although he lost to Cotto,it showed that he can fight. Mayweather vs Malignaggi? Hahhha..Lol…it will be a joke. Floyd has to fight an opponent that has at least a chance of beating him, not Paulie. Floyd should fight Bradley or Cintron this march, no one else. I don’t think we should put Paul Williams on the list, because we all know Mayweather doesn’t want to fight him. I hope Mayweather vs. Bradley. At least Bradley will give Floyd a good fight for the fans to see, otherwise boxing fans will only be watching the Pacquio-Clottey fight.
paulie again blasted pac, and he call out mayweather,but …………….. he said I respect mayweather as one of the greatest, and I would like to test myself against him. ha……
second times I heard a fighter say this to floyd,when boxing as in the top 10 you need to give 110%. that 10% decide it,
that is like saying, I will try my best,but if I see myself over my head, I know you are the greatest so please don’t humiliate me,I only box part time ,I other job is a loud mouth NY taxi driver,and I need the money.
FLOYD IS DEMANDING HIS RULES TO BE FOLLOWED AND THINKS HE IS SMARTER THAN THE DOCTORS OF THE NEVADA ATHLETIC COMMISSION. IT IS EXPECTED THAT MANNY WOULD NOT COMPROMISE ON FLOYD’S DEMANDS…WHY WOULD MANNY GIVE HIM HIS WAY ANYWAY?? FLOYD IS NOT FROM THE COMMISSION.
All manny’s fights are exciting to watch. You’ll never know. Because he’s always fighting boxers bigger than him!
Good luck with Clottey! Win or lose, Manny is still our Hero!
Floyd doesnt deserve the big payday he would have got with pac,this man is scared to death of pac man,if it wasnt the testing thing it would have been something else.Does anybody out there think that roys chin would have a chance against pacs style,no way.Roy has lost the chance to ever say he fought the best.Clotty is more of a man then roy jones anyway,u dont here him cryin.
It doesn’t matter how many fights Manny takes, Floyd don’t want none of that. Why would he want to fight in the fall? Freddy Roach said, the rules will be the same then as it is now. So do us a favor and retire again Floyd.
Manny will keep fighting the best ones, while May Chicken will pick a fight with the kids so he can keep his zero loss. At the end, for Manny, win or loss, you are the better fighter.
This looks like a great fight Clothey makes everyone look crappy!
i agree that clottey cannot be written off. it was a split decision w/ against cotto right?
on the other, it’s funny coz big-mouth-wannabe paulie expects to get his payday against pacquiao by riding on the accusation. now he’s getting mayweather…heheh. as george w. bush has said “everybody just wants to see pacquiao anyway”.
manny will weight 149 to 150lb cottey will be 165 to 174lb manny giving over twenty lb ,manny will defend ww cotto belt at the low min, 147.lb+ .it will be a actions war.
Well I never said all Floyd does is run. Running doesn’t win fights, and the guy has 40 wins to say otherwise. I will say though his fighting style is not an entertaining as Pacquiao’s (IMHO) but that’s just me. Floyd doesn’t run, he boxes, just from really far away, while moving backwards……
wowzabean…does it matter if its a KO or TKO?? Fact is 63% of Floyd’s opponents have not seen the final bell PERIOD!! My point is if Floyd only “runs” why is it that 63% of his opponents haven’t seen the final bell??
Also Manny has double actual K.O.’s than Floyd. Rest of Floyd’s were T.K.O. Manny puts them to bed.
motown hitman,
Pacquiao also has 15 more fights, and most of those knockouts came in AS HE GAINED WEIGHT. Added punching power. Mayweather’s been in the WW division a lot longer with a lot fewer K.O.’s. Just compare the K.O.’s, Manny’s are because of power, Mayweather’s are wear and tear. It’s completely different.
angbobo nyo…arum a great promoter??? Dude are you kdding me? Arum was able to get the Clottey fight so quickly because he promotes Clottey also..DUH!!! It makes business sense for Arum to have the two fight since they are both in the Top Rank stable..just like Cotto!!
Boxeerrrr you are not a “true boxing fan” and just because you call yourself one doesn’t make you one. If Floyd does nothing but “dance” why is it that Manny only has a 7% higher KO rate than him???
For one thing, Manny has the greatest promoter in the boxing world. Arum wasted no time moving on and sealing a deal with Clottey. Keeping him busy boxing and wealthy. As for monggoloyd, nobody cares anymore about what he says.
Mayweather do us a favor retire and live in a dumpster
True boxing fans watch exciting fights and are willing to pay for it.
People who wan’t to watch a person dance in the ring is just wasting their savings.
Spend your savings well like a good investment.
Watch a legend or watch a WANABE.
i think clottey was the best choice for pac seeing that mosley/berto had gone by and margarito banned and pbf not taking the fight on the 13th who else could he had took on?
clottey “is” an obstacle well i think so and a very tough 1
good luck manny keep on the good work you might keep boxing alive and 4 mayweather you could be a part of history take the fight
it;s funny how everyone is trying to make clottey sound like he’s the best boxer out there…please people base your judgements on boxing skills not on your love of pacman’s personality..Im a pacman fan aswell but clottey won’t be an obstacle
Everyone is makin questionin by manny let go 40 mill n fightin floyd but floyd let go maybe an additional 10 mill not wantin the fight in dallas!!
Pac has put Floyd on the fence. If Floyd claims to be great try fighting an actual welterweight for a change. Floyd can’t come out vs M Hatton of Magic Man anymore. He needs to step up to a real welterweight like Mosley/Berto or P Williams. Margo and Cotto are Top Rank fighters, so that won’t happen.
Wowzabean,
Where did you get that info? can you pls give me the link? If thats true then that 40-0 is nothing but trash. I cant stand floyd!
this is a good fight 4 people who love not like boxing
Mayweather vs. Pacquiao would not take place in Texas because supposedly Money May is taking Xylocaine. A pain killer that is illegal in boxing in all states except……….you guessed it, Nevada.
man these guys aren’t wasting no time..
now its cemented…..now going be fun to watch cottey utubes fights.
All respect to Manny, clottey is a tough fighter hes big strong and fast and in my mind he beat Miguel Cotto but was robbed by the judges. If pacman takes his eye of the ball he could get beat. Manny is consistently taking on tough competition while floyd mayweather is taking on smaller men and thinking abt fighting the pathetic MATTHEW HATTON.
I really like this fight and if pacquiao wins by KO its just adds to his legacy because he beats anoher top welterweight! But this is not the fight we want to see or makes any money sense compared to floyd, unless the plan is for mayweather and pacquiao to win and then face each other in the fall?