Is Clottey the sacrificial lamb for Pacquiao?
March 5th, 2010
By Chris Williams: Manny Pacquiao could have had a fight against Floyd Mayweather Jr., but instead because of the random blood tests that Mayweather asked for, Pacquiao turned in another direction and decided to fight former IBF welterweight champion Joshua Clottey. The fight is about as interesting on paper as reading a technical manual. Pacquiao has all the advantages in this fight in that he’s a great fighter taking on guy that you can merely call good in a weak division.
I still don’t understand why Pacquiao and his promoter Bob Arum didn’t stick it out in the negotiations with Mayweather and iron out a huge mega fight. They seemed to give up suddenly just after Mayweather asked for the random blood tests that he wanted to be discontinued at two weeks before their proposed March 13th fight.
Mayweather was left standing there wondering what happened, and it seemed like they could have stuck it out and worked out a deal. Goodness knows, nothing will change in the future if they want to try and line up a fight with Mayweather. They can’t say that they don’t want to fight him because both Pacquiao and Arum have mentioned Mayweather quite a bit in the past month, sometimes talking more about him than Clottey.
But as far as Clottey goes, he just seems like someone that was hastily pulled out of a hat just to have an opponent to throw in with Pacquiao on March 13th. I’d hate to think that Clottey was the whole backup plan to begin with going into the negotiations for the Mayweather fight, because I would think that they could have been a little more inventive than that and gone after someone like Shane Mosley instead.
However, I hear Arum talking about wanting to match Pacquiao with Antonio Margarito in the near future, and leaves me to think that Clottey could have been the one that he had in mind from the get go for an alternative opponent to replace Mayweather.
I think Clottey is being put in an impossible situation by being matched against Pacquiao. I don’t think that Pacquiao is the best welterweight in the division, but I do think he’s better than Clottey. I think the guy doesn’t have the credentials to beat a fighter like Pacquiao, and to me this fight is as good as a tune-up for Pacquiao. I know Arum and Freddie Roach are painting this as good fight, but I don’t really see it that way.
In watching Clottey getting strafed by the huge shots from Miguel Cotto in his last fight, a 12 round loss for Clottey, and looking at how bad Clottey looked at his only other good opponent during his career, Antonio Margarito, I think it’s not even a fight that I can even consider to be competitive fight. It’s a mismatch on paper, and it will very likely be one in the ring. It’s too bad they couldn’t have found a better opponent for Pacquiao to fight.
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@donkey,
this is Manny’s 3rd fight at Welterweight, not 2nd.
Clottey – a sacrificial lamb? NO WAY, he’s a fighter for Manny to consider before FLOYD; the same as MOSLEY for FLOYD!
The worst is FLOYD will lose against MOSLEY! What will happen? – Manny can concentrate on Public Servant – another QUEST for LIFE from CONGRESS to PRESIDENCY, if he could do better than the first TEST. What a DREAM! It’s not really far for MANNY!
The Philippines needs POLITICAL WILL. I’m sure MANNY has it, what he needs are great minds & bright boys, BUT HE TAKE THE DECISION. I will bet for this.
IF MOSLEY wins the fight, then he would be MANNY’s retiring fight.
MANNY & FLOYD, just make no mistake against your “not sacrificial lambs” but to prepare for the “FIGHT OF THE CENTURY.” iF NOT, THEN MOSLEY-CLOTTEY have them all, and probable boxing sports will be in vain.
A lot of us would like to agree with Floyd but his last fight showed a spent fighter. Now at 33 with no title and looked weaker, where is the greatness? In the past probably, but he retired. When he came back several months ago he said he will reclaim the throne. But Pacquaio is still there. Floyd was given a chance to take it the crown from Pacquaio but he got scared and instead settled for Moseley, preferring to fight someone who had a real history of PEds taking than one who was always clean, just because Moseley is safer to fight, being older. With this as his resume where is the greatness of this man?
to this writer:
You sound like you’re having a headache. You’re thinking too much. Let me break it down for you: After they have all agreed in paper and with just their signatures about to be affixed, Floyd suddenly had goose bumps on Texas as venue. So Arum and company agreed despite having agreed earlier on a Texas venue, then suddenly Floyd wanted to add in the agreement random test Olympic Style. This is the point where the global boxing fans doubted Floyd’s sincerity to fight Pacquiao and hence arose the KFC reputation. Relax, Don’t think too much.
@lex_fugitive, who are the fighters that Floyd fought after corrales? His last 3 fights sucked. He fought a bloated lightweight coming in the ring 2 pounds heavier. Got a split decision against delaHoya who Manny put to submission in 8 rounds. Made Hatton leave his comfort zone by fighting him in higher weightclass of whom Manny destroyed in just 2 rounds?? Floyd was very good before but now hes just all hype and all he wanted to do is make money! Floyd is simply over rated and just all hype!
People say that mayweather has duck boxers how about pacquiao he didn’t want to fight Marquez,Juan Diaz,and mosley call him out so many times.instead of fighting Joshua clotty why didn’t choose to fight Paul Williams
Manny is going to deny Mayweather the $25 million payday. Mayweather is a clown who tried and failed to change the rules of boxing. Who has Mayweather fought? Margarito? nope. Cotto? nope. Any legit welterweight? nope.
donkey;
Floyd agreed to fight Judah when he was the undisputed welterweight champ. He then beat the guy who beat Judah and was the ring and linear welterweight champ. Next he fought the best champ at 154 and came in 16 pounds lighter than the champ. Next he fought the fighter that was supposed to have the best chance of beating him and had the closest odds since Corrales. Hatton was supposed to be the toughest fight out there and no one would have had better odds at beating Floyd. But i realize when u only fight the best u are “ducking” B, C, and D level fighters. Sure Mayweather could have fought Clottey were he woulda been around a 10-1 favorite but he insisted on fighting the best. He could be fighting a bum like Pacquiao is but instead he’s fighting the top welterweight.
Cotto ducked Mayweather. Show me one source that says Cotto EVER made any offer to Mayweather. Mayweather would have been his biggest payday by far, yet Cotto never made any attempt to fight him. ODLH and Hatton both brought bigger paydays than Cotto would have, ODLH outweighed Mayweather by 16 pounds!! 16 pounds!! Hatton had the best odds since Corrales and was supposed to be the toughest challenge for Mayweather. Why didn’t Cotto ever make any attempt at all to get the biggest payday of his career?!? Mayweather fought the biggest names out there for the most money, and Cotto didn’t want any part of “Money May”. If Mayweather beats Mosley, Pacquiao, and Williams everyone will say he was avoiding Berto or someone else. I guess that’s what comes with being the best pound for pound fighter in the game.
whoa haters, analyze the chain of events, contender lineups. everyone is doing the ’cause cotto beat clottey, pac destroys clottey so why even bother’ analysis when looking at this fight. The truth is nobody wants to fight clottey, clottey has not been a walk in the park for anybody at all. Someone name a welter besides floyd, berto and mosley he should have fought. No jr welters(bradley) or middleweights(williams) etc. Enjoy the fight and hopefully we get what we pay for.
Man Manny is a coward. fighting clottey this is worst than mayweather-marquez. the only reason i dont feel that bad for clottey is because he is getting his biggest payday just to put another loss on his record. and manny is trying to look good, but anyone who knows boxing knows this fight is a joke and Clottey is just the sacrificial lamb, but all the PAC fans will think this is good and PAC is so great, he is a joke cant believe he is p4p, at least mayweather only fought one cherry picked opponent, unlike PAC.
zoomX,
sorry I didn’t see your comment.
“the mayweather cannot show a SINGLE PROOF” – that’s why they do these drug tests in sport, otherwise you will never know if the guy is clean or not.
“mood swings,picture of a syringe,drug cannester” – believe me if it was as easy as that then know one would be doing these drug tests.
“why they dont hire a private investigator” – I am glad they are not doing that because this is nothing personal against Pacquiao, and asking for an olympic-style random blood test was a fair way of going about it, simply because the test can be applied to anyone.
“petition to NSAC”? – If these guys wanted to change the tests they could do it tomorrow, they don’t need to be told what to do. One other thing, did you know Pacquiao is not undergoing any tests for drugs in his next fight in Texas, not even a urine test.
“manny will be crucify by his own country” – NO NO NO don’t do that. If Pacquiao were to be found taking PEDs, I would NOT encourage violence against him. Let me make this clear I AM TOTALLY AGAINST VIOLENCE.
irish boy,
No, am talking about Pacquiao refusing to take a simple blood test. Why did he do it? Is he hiding something? Is he using PEDs?
1 inch bigger and a bigger frame in my book thats bigger which is what i said moron duh and how many times has the guy with the punchers chance caused the big upset moron lol
@graham
Are you a member of Mayweather’s cult ‘cuz you seem to believe everything you hear from this voodoo clan.
@ graham
Are you talking about the A-side meth?
All these PED issues started from the A-side meth theory of Floyd sr. and Roger.
If you believe them or support them, well all of you can flock together, and duck and quack together.
two years ago pacquaio was fighting at 130. Give the guy a little credit will ya. Look at boxing history and find anything comparable. If you count on your fingers you wont get to the other hand.
pac-clottey fight is so near that many writers (this one included) finds ways to criticize manny, obviously biased. the pending destruction of clottey in the hands of pac is now perceived as a mismatch (despite being ranked no.1 and has good credentials in welter). who will pac fight next and then will be criticized after? who’s at fault and who’s to blame? manny? you never imagined that pac goes this far, so boxers fear him and so many writers hates him. is it just fair for manny to show his skills and slaughtered every fighter in front of him? we are in boxing, right?
zoomX,
Since Pacquiao refused an olympic-style random blood test, we don’t know if he’s on anything, or what type of stuff he could be taking. They are probably guessing just like everybody else.
You morons, Clottey isn’t as big as u try 2 make him out 2 be. He’s only 5’7 1inch bigger than Pac. Yea his frame is bigger but that doesn’t make him scary. This is boxing you boxing novice. Pac has all the important advantages. He’s faster, he hits harder, has power in both hands, he has much better foot-work and all Clottey has is basically a punchers chance! Pac is gonna murder Clottey! Mayweather will be Pacs biggest and toughest fight!
If he(Clottey)is what you say is the sacrificial lamb, he’s $1.5M richer and given a huge chance by Manny if he can beat him to make more money in the future. Sac lambs don’t get that chance. I’ll say the bull (Clottey) against the Matador (Manny). Ole!
clottey is pac’s mandatory. no.1 contender for the wbo. end of.
mr t couldnt have said it better delusional fool haha
here here lol
Clottey has a better resume then Mayweather. At least Clottey has been fighting top ranked welterweights. Mayweather hasn’t fought any of the top boxers Clottey has faced. Wonder WHY?
no way is this goin to be a straight forward fight for manny have you seen the shape clottey is in clottey is a very large men for this weight im praying that manny wins so he can then shut mayweather up too but dont look past clottey that uppercut of his is a very good punch in freddie we trust lol
irish boy,
“Manny tko’d Cotto”
That’s the problem you see, we don’t know if Pacquiao was clean or not when he did this to Cotto. It is possible that he could have been on PEDs.
Mayweather fans never saw the Clottey-Cotto fight.
Even Floyd didn’t even want to fight Clottey.
Floyd ducked Cotto, Manny tko’d Cotto, Floyd Sr. and Roger cried A-side meth, Floyd jr. cried and ran away from the fight.
When PAC/Floyd ddnt happend.. PAC look at tha nxt ww list n saw berto n mosley r not available cuz they going 2 fight each other.. N that’s why he choose clottey 2 fight.. Tha nxt available n top #5 ww.. N a dicent fighter.. That’s what happend
besides mosley, berto, or floyd, no one is ranked as highly as clottey is in the welter division? 2 of those guys were unavailable. Even if he fought a no. 2 or 3 contender, its still a legit fight as this is only his 2nd true welterweight fight. the dlh fight was 147 but that was a promotional bout with nothing really on the line but bragging rights. yeah, mosley wanted to fight pacquiao right after the hatton fight, but that was at 140, thats why roach wanted mosley to come down to do the fight. And yes, roach respects mosley too much as a welter to put his guy in at such an early stage in the division. Remember, even arum was disappointed when mosley put the fight together with berto, as this was a possible opportunity that could have been. which could have prevented the money-pac debacle, or held it off.
all who agree with him!the mere fact the clottey is rank #1,never been knock out,winning against cotto,slug it out with margarito and a bigger fighter coming to this fight are reasons that this fight is as exciting as any other pacquiao fights!clottey also has good win-loss record…no wonder 40,000 boxing fans are lining for this fight!i order ppv myself and million more!
I see Clottey walking into this fight confident, taking the beating of his life (not even competitive), then saying that Pac is the best fighter he fought. His next fight will be at a higher weight. Sounds familiar?
@ graham
Why would pac submit to mayweather terms when he is just a fighter his job is to fight and not to make the policy or procedure thats the boxing committee responsibility. Why change the rules when he is to fight manny?
I would like to see a fight for this two outside nevada and manny taking the blood test. This is some fight to watch but this will never happen as KFC will not fight outside of nevada and manny will not take the drug test.
lets just wait for the manny vs mosley fight that is something worth watching as Mosley will drop KFC on the canvass by 10th round.
Yeah this fight stinks. There is no way Clottey is suppose to win this. Just another example of Pac cherry picking his opponents, and ducking true equal talent like Floyd and Shane.
Has anybody seen or heard of the random test for Floyd and Shane?
run chicken,
That excuse won’t work any more.
Mayweather has asked two boxers to take olympic-style random blood tests. One of them (Mosley) has accept, the other one (Pacquiao) refused and ran away. So what are we supposed to think? Is Pacquiao really clean? Is Pacquiao using PEDs?
@Limey: That’s funny because Mayweather has been fighting in the welterweight division for how long now?? Mayweather has only fought how many welterweights. Pacquiao just came into the division and is fighting his second fight in less then a year and a half. How come Mayweather has not fought Clottey yet being in the division for that long?
Comments against Manny Pacquiao will simply fade away in time.
HISTORY WILL SHOW, In the END the RECORD STANDS CLEAR.
Manny Pacquiao CHAMPION in 7 Weight Division. One of the GREATEST OF ALL TIME. 326 consecutive weeks and counting as the TOP POUND FOR POUND fighter of this modern world.
And there is absolutely NOTHING that can take all of this away from him. UNLESS YOU BEAT HIS RECORD.
kfc will run run from mosley during the fight!! kfc is so scared of pacman that’s why he wants to drain him before the fight!!! did he asked the drug testing all his 40 fights!!! big no!!! why now!!! because he is a chicken!!!
Will Pac fight a worthy opponent fair and square ever again? Doubtful. This prima donna midget and his slick trainer have been cherry-picking washed-out fighters for a long time now, they made their name shamelessly doing so. And now they chose Clottey, another stand-in-your-front, snail-footed, overrated, past-his-prime cannon-fodder. Arum is selling this as a hard fight for Pac? LoL. Oh, the comedy never ends.
Only daft blokes think Floyd is scared of Pac. It is the other way around, fools.
boxingsense making nonsense!
How can a drug test be to Mayweather’s advantage if he’s taking the same test? Pacquiao has no excuse. Pacquiao’s camp has changed stories so many times they can’t be trusted anymore. In any case everybody knows that a simple blood test is harmless, so why did Pacquiao refuse to do the olympic-style random blood test?
It appears the guy is hiding something, and I wouldn’t be surprised if it was PEDs.
PAC is a joke…take the blood test and fight…
Fact is Mosley wanted to fight Pacquiao straight after he destroyed Hatton but Manny and Roach wanted nothing to do with him
Opinion from blogs goes like this:
Pacquiao vs Clottey – Clottey is a sacrificial lamb.
Mayweather vs Clottey – Clottey loses by points.
Who’s the better boxer then? Mayweather did not even consider Clottey, he wanted Matthew Hatton!
@Chris Williams
Mayweather requests a test that is to his advantage because he knows it affects Pacquiao. Then he calls Pacquiao a cheat to pressure Pacquiao into it. Pacquiao says I don’t need this fight. It’s not like he’s aiming to be number two P4P, because he’s already number one. Pacquiao picks the next contender in line, Clottey, the number one welterweight contender. What else do people want?
Of course, every welterweight boxer pitted against Pacquiao will look like a sacrificial lamb. He’s number one. Mayweather, who’s number two, and Mosley, number three, will give him a good fight but they are already fighting. So who else do you expect? Tell us.
How about you wait for the winner of Mosley-Mayweather fight? Then Pacquiao will fight the winner. How about that?
In fact, it is in the interest of thousands of matchmakers and bookkeepers that Clottey wins because they will rake a fortune on bets. So cospiracy theory says, an upset is possible because money makes it possible, especially since Pacquiao is announcing retirement and there is no more money to make from him. Pacquiao is only worth their time and money if he fights the winner of Mosley-Mayweather.
gr8boxer,
You got it backwards. He agreed to all of Pacquiao’s terms, it’s Pacquiao who did not agree to Mayweather’s request (just one request).
@Tweezy
You are really blinded by your admiration to Mayweather! How this fight can be a joke? How can Clottey be a sacrificial lamb? Clottey is the true welterweight among the two boxers. Pacquiao fought only 2 boxers in this division. One to a fading boxer and the other is on catchweight. This is Clottey division, not catchweight and he is never been knock out by anyone. He has only 3 losses which are questionable up to now. Remember, Clottey is the bigger and heavier man who knows how to fight dirty. Pacquiao ducked Mayweather? Wow! you are really hallucinating! I recommend you to watch all those videos you´re referring to. It seems you misunderstood and missed a lot of your idol demands and trashy talks.
It seems that the author of this article is biased towards Pacman and his team. KFC is the one that indicated that Pac is only a dimensional fighter and if he strongly believes that it is so, he could have agreed to Pac’s term. I still believe that it is out of fear of losing his 0 record that made Floyd to stick to his demands of unlimited random blood testing. I like both Floyd and Manny because of their conflicting styles that is why I also want to see them fight but since it didn’t materialize, there is really no sense to still speculate on what really happened. All of us fans, were not there while those 2 great boxers were negotiating the exact terms of the fight so there is really anything for us to understand. Finally this is old news and it is history so we can’t change it anymore. All we can do is hope that somehow, they can revisit it in the future and agree to fight. Have a great hope for the future fight of those two.
Folks, i agree to all of you. But here’s mine – I dont care what people said and think about Manny, whether using PED or not, but what really matters is the winner of the fight. Just like old times, a warrior turned into their Gods, Goddesses, prophecy, prayers, amulet, good preparations & trainings -even deadly war games, deadly head-butt and low-blow tactics, loading up with inspirations, and everything a gladiator would ever think, but in the end, it is always the decision that counts.
Good luck to both gladiators, they have their reasons to win.
For me, Manny wins by TKO before 9th round!!!
A weak division!!!! Lets face it, if you put a statement like that up front in an article regarding the welterwieght division you just know the rest of the article’s going to be poor. The division has more talent than any other by a mile. If Clottey can make the weight ok he’ll give pacquiao a tough fight. He counters well – watch his first 4 round vs Margarito. Manny struggles with good counterpunchers like Marquez. The most likely scenario is that Manny will go to the body, slow Clottey down, bring his guard down a little and stop Clottey on the ropes in the later rounds. But it won’t be easy and he’s likely to be hit more often on the way. To call it a mismatch is harsh on Clottey – he had the better of Cotto and Margarito in the first half of both fights.
Before, Pacquiao’s opponents was old, weight-drained, no defense, and past their prime cause of the beating Pacquiao did. After the Mayweather clan comments, Pacquiao’s on drugs cause of the way he dominated the last 3 years. What’s next? Pacquiao’s an alien like Clark Kent.
If Pacquiao is not taking any PEDs then Clottey has a chance of not getting embarrassed. His strategy of wearing his opponents down did not work against Cotto so how can he survive 12 rounds of roid rage? It will be like Pacquiao vs Barrera again.
An “UPSET” is in the making! All of the Pacquiao hype will be put to rest! Should Pacquiao squeak out a win, he will get hurt really bad in the process. There is no BS catchweight of 145 here!
Oscar offered Manny a fight @ 147, which required Manny to come up two divisions & Oscar to drop one. Manny took it Money talks & Oscar was The MONEY at the time for sure. Unfortunately for Oscar he underestimated the effect dropping that much weight would have on his older body. He also underestimated how Pac could perform @ 147, as did most boxig professionals. That’s not a catch weight, that’s just meeting in the middle, or close to it.
Cotto was a catch weight fight (145) but that’s weigh in weight, it doesn’t stop a fighter from rehydrating to 150 or wherever he’s comfortable.
Would a 147 weigh in have helped Cotto? In my opinion, not enough.
Calling Clottey a ‘lamb’ is a bit of a stretch, but I see Pac by TKO in 10.
Eli,
“fighting dudes that been in one to many wars, on top of that there’s always a catch weigh”
Get your facts straight man. Pacquiao had only ONE, I’ll say it again, ONE catch weight fight. That was against Cotto and it was at 145lb. Just shows how little people know. Plus Pacquiao didn’t bring ODLH down in weight. ODLH made the proposal to bring Pacquiao up in weight, again, use facts please.
ok here’s how I see it. pacquaio has done alot in boxing. no doubt about that. the one thing I cant leave out is that pac- man has become a legend by fighting dudes that been in one to many wars, on top of that there’s always a catch weight. i thought pound 4 pound meant fighting at the normal weight and if your victorious in all your battles then your considered the best p4p. that hasn’t been the case with the people champ. let me make it clear that i’m not bashing manny in anyway. I like him, he has a lot of personality, he does a lot for his country, and he seems like a pretty stand up fella. but facts are facts, and if you stop being a fan for two minutes and look at it from my perspective you’ll see that my words retain weight. people are talkin about clottey like he’s gonna be a walk in the park for pac, but i see this being pacquaio’s toughest challenge yet. joshua is a strong dude that can take shots.. i see pacquaio being slick and swift come fight night, however if he lets clottey land it’s gonna be lights out for the people champ. lets see what happens. good luck to both fighters. later
All of the pac haters out there should get your facts straight including this so called boxing writer. This site cracks me up! Doesn’t anyone realize that mayweather doesn’t make policy the commision does. I don’t care how many ppv buys you sell that’s what the commision is for not you. Mayweather has ducked every top fighter of his era minus odlh. Pac haters should be thanking him now because if he wasn’t fighting clottey mayweather would be fighting m hatton or paulie mag or someone else who isn’t a threat. People say why didn’t fight mosley, he was still signed to fight berto , idiots. I give mayweather credit though for finally stepping, for the second time, and fighting someone legitin moseley.
I am sure no matter who Manny fights the author of this article and the whole boxing community will watch the fight and the main reason for that are the following Manny is the P4P king, Manny is still creating history 7th division world champ, and every one wants to know whats going to happen next.
I just dont know with KFC, if he tries to fight a no name fighter some people would think that they are just wasting their value for their money watching a boring fight.
In one of Mayweather’s latest interviews, he stated that for him to fight Pacquiao his new demands are unlimited random blood tests and a much bigger share of the money, He knows very well that Pacquiao will never agree to his terms, especially the bigger share of the money, so this means that there will be no Pacquiao-Mayweather fight. The rest of the year will be a name-calling contest between the supporters of the 2 fighters. One side calls the Pacquiao Pacduck or Pacroid, the other side calls Floyd Fraud or KFC (short for Kentucky Floyd Chicken) with a picture of Floyd’s head on a dressed chicken with boxing gloves, very funny indeed. I think Pacquiao fans are winning in this contest.
oh and lex fugitive is the most deluded fool in the world. Pac has beaten, Barrera, morales , marquez, de la hoya ,hatton and cotto and you say he needs to step up and fight the big dogs. Mabye he should call out ali? obviously all these names hes beaten arent big names in your retareded opinion.
@Lex
Welcome back, Pac #1 hater! Nice to see you haven’t given up on hating the fighter who helps give the sport a blood pulse. When Pac does retire, most imagine boxing not being as good as it once was. Pac outsold Floyd on his last fight and this upcoming fight will be the best gate sales in history without Pac needing to fight a big name. Floyd and Shane have a massive following on both sides. Pac just has his name and it would be sad see the numbers are comparable and equal on both fights. I like Pac but I like watching other fights too. I will watch both fights. Im a fan of boxing not hating…maybe you should try it..
Clotty is an extremely large, strong and skillfull welterweight with a chin of steel. The big name welterweights are pac, mayweather, mosley and cotto. Pac already beat cotto, Mosley was scheduled to fight Berto, Mayweather is affaid to pac without changing commision rules. So whos the next best? its clottey. His size, chin and defensive skills could even cause a problem for pacquaio, however i beleive pac will be far too explosive and fast for clottey. Clottys only negative is his passive patches and laziness or else hed be right up there with the others and its these times when pac will outwork him.
Are you serious? Up until now you still don’t understand why? It was already approaching mid-January and Floyd wouldn’t budge. Pacquiao wanted to get a fight in before elections. What, they should have waited until the end of January, so Pacquiao could have a 4 week training schedule? His schedule was already shorter for Clottey.
What’s the difference between now and the future? Time. Time they didn’t have the first time around.
Cant be any worse a joke than Mayweather Marquez
Wow it appears Pac’s haters don’t ever quit. Its like a 24/7 special on hating him. Don’t haters have any other fighters to hate on besides, the fighter of the decade? Haters need something else to occupy they’re minds with. I guess the writers have nothing else better to do. Play some video games where Pac is getting beat down. Stop making worthless comments and articles. Its gets real old…this will cheer you haters up. Pac will fight the winner! And chances are, it will be Floyd! Shane isn’t primed anymore, not to say he doesn’t have a chance but more or less to say he would’ve destroyed Floyd a decade ago. Every fighter ducks some other fighter and usually its because there is more money to be made facing a bigger name.
hell yeah.. it was published on the worldwide broadsheets the reaction of floyd sr. during the hatton and cotto fights of how terrified they are against the pakman that is why they resort into cleaning the sports??? same plan, morales-pak 1??? and by the way, fredie have seen their flaws during ODLH-floydjr fight up close and personnal…think?????
either you undermined Manny in all his fight or you sarcastically conceed on Manny’s greatness. Either way you (and all that hates Manny) cannot understand that what Manny has been doing is something not easy to do otherwise many would have don’t it! Chill-out folks, for Manny is here to stay and will only make your life miserable! You cannot appreciate that Manny has already tried to fight bigger larger and stronger fighters since JMM. You want Manny to fight even larger fighters (the like of Paul Williams, etc) where Manny will have a huge disadvantage before you can accept him in you perverted minds. Floyd fought a smaller man the last time and even cheated with the weight! prejudice is really a blade that disfigure you guise and I say this to your shame!
@ Tweezy316
you can’t let go of the issue now can you. Pacquiao-Clottey is one week away, while Mayweather-Mosley is on May 1. it is very simple to just enjoy these incoming fights. enough with the ranting, or probably hating.
the same goes with the author of this article. you’re underestimating Clottey too much. while anything can happen in the ring at fight night, post your negative remarks after the event.
If Pacquiao had fought a top fighter, the amazing hype train would come to a screeching halt. Arum and Roach and Manny are milking this hype job for as much money as they can before throwing Pacquiao in with the big dogs. Pacquiao generates solid PPV numbers (even though they are still no where close to the kind Mayweather gets) and it seems everyone involved in making money from Pacquiao wants to get as much as they can, before having his stock plummet from a beating at the hands of someone like Mayweather or Mosley. With talk of Pacquiao retiring, hopefully he gets in the ring with the best for the first time in his career. If it will be his last fight anyway, then it won’t affect their future earnings. But if Pacquiao fought Mayweather or Mosley or Williams right now, any future fights with Manny wouldn’t draw nearly the same money as he does right now. Clottey is definitely sacrificing his body for a big paycheck. Anyone that called Mayweather a ducker for fighting an opponent that he came in as a 4-1 favorite over as to admit Pacduck is even guiltier by rushing to fight Clottey, who is a 6-1 underdog. But this way Manny looks great and Arum tells us Clottey is great, so if no one pays attention to the fact Clottey isn’t that good, the hype train doesn’t lose any steam. I know Clottey has a tough chin and has never been knocked out, but by facing a second tier guy Pacquiao really has to knock him out. If this fight goes the distance and gets less than a million PPVs and Mayweather dominates Mosley and draws over 2 million PPVs Pacquiao will have no leverage in negotations and can forget about a 50/50 split. The same would apply if Mayweather fought someone who he was a 6-1 favorite against and Manny fought the #1 welterweight and Manny overdoubled PPV buys. Thats really common sense. But i would be shocked if Manny fought the winner of May 1, it would go against his entire history of choosing opponents. He could fight Mosley if Mayweather dominates him, but no way does Manny fight the winner. I see the winner of May 1 offering Pacduck a fight, Pacduck refusing, and Mayweather or Mosley moving on to either the Williams-Cintron winner or possibly Berto if he wins on April 10. Pacquiao will fight another sacrificial lamb the public has never heard of.
All the Pactards know that this is a easy win for Pacquiao. They will say that Clottey is tough and dangerous and this wont be easy for Pac. But they always say I hope Mosley beats Mayweather so we can see Mosley vs Pac later on in the year. They are already giving Pacquiao the fight! This fight is a joke. Pacquiao ducked Mayweather. Initially he agreed to the test and then back tracked. And there’s a video on youtube for proof of that statement.