Pacquiao-Clottey a horrible fight and dreadful undercard
March 14th, 2010
By Chris Williams: I hate to say I told you so, but I did. I knew the Manny Pacquiao vs. Joshua Clottey fight was going to be a total mismatch. And for the many Pacquiao fans, including trainer Freddie Roach, who said that Clottey was the type of opponent that would bring an exciting fight, you were dead wrong. How could Roach be so ignorant of Clottey? I’ve see Clottey fight at least 10 times and I knew all he was capable of doing was just covering up. If Roach didn’t know that too, shame on him.
It would be interesting to note how many actually. I don’t trust the guys that count punches, because they don’t see what goes half the time. Pacquiao was hitting gloves, period. Clottey actually landed the cleaner and harder shots all night long, not Pacquiao. The problem for Clottey is that he wasn’t throwing anything and was content to cover up and do nothing. Basically, Clottey fought the way he always fights, which is why I was astonished to see Roach saying before the fight how it was a good choice for Top Rank to choose Clottey, another Top Rank fighter by the way, as an opponent because Clottey will make a fight of it and bring excitement to fans. What a joke.
I knew this was a pay-per-view worthy fight. Heck, it wasn’t even a good ESPN 2 fight if you ask me. It was total mismatch between a fighter that likes to throw a lot of punches and one that just covers up looking to survive. Clottey was like a poor man’s version of Winky Wright. At least Wright throws jabs. Clottey hardly even did that.
And the undercard was pathetic. I told you it was going to be a bunch of boring mismatches. Middleweight John Duddy defeated Michael Medina by a 10 round split decision. I thought Duddy clearly won the fight, but looked horrible in doing so. I can’t believe that either of these guys is ranked in the top 15 in the middleweight division. I just don’t see any talent there.
It is fitting that Duddy will likely be fighting undefeated Julio Cesar Chavez next. Two fighters with inflated records and rankings. I see both of them as 2nd tier fighters. I can’t believe Duddy was on the undercard. However, his fight with Medina was still the best fight of the entire card, which tells you much of a stinker this card was.
Welterweight contender Alfonso Gomez and Jose Luis Castillo went at it, if that’s what you want to call it. Actually, it was Gomez doing all the punching and Castillo doing absolutely nothing and looking totally shot. I don’t know how either of these guys is ranked in the top 10 in the welterweight division. Both looked 2nd tier to me. Gomez ended up winning the fight when it was stopped after the 5th round, because Castillo didn’t come out for the 6th.
It’s a good thing that the fight was stopped because Castillo was doing nothing. If you look at Castillo’s older fights, he was a nonstop puncher, but now. It’s all Castillo could do last night to throw a jab or two. He literally couldn’t the trigger and when he did, he looked weak and slow.
Castillo needs to retire. But what was really sad was watching Castillo get beat by Gomez, a fighter who I can’t EVER see winning any of the welterweight titles. That’s the sad part. He got beat by a contender. I think this was horrible mismatch on paper going into the fight and sure enough, it turned out to be as bad as I thought would be.
The fight between lightweights Humberto Soto and David Diaz for the vacant WBC lightweight title wasn’t interesting either. Soto, who usually slugs it out, boxed all night long, and seemed to be fighting at half speed. He still ended up knocking Diaz down twice. Diaz, a crude slugger, made Soto look like another Ali. It wasn’t an interesting fight because Soto chose to box.
If he had gone out slugging, I think he would have taken Diaz out within 6 rounds. Instead, he fought a stinker of a fight and made it look really boring.
All in all, the entire card was totally boring and not worth the $49.95 charged for it. Like I said, I knew the main event between Pacquiao and Clottey was going to be a horrible mismatch and I was right. This wasn’t a PPV worthy fight in my view, and the undercard fights lumped with it, certainly wasn’t either. Pacquiao fans are probably in denial about the Clottey fight, thinking Clottey was so boring because Pacquiao made him that way. Wrong!
Clottey is always boring and never throws a lot of punches. That’s why I couldn’t believe he was picked out of all the opponents for Pacquiao to fight, and I also couldn’t believe how Roach went on about him 24/7, pumping him up and saying how he’s going to make for an entertaining fight. I know some gullible people believed that, but I know Clottey and knew he was going to make a boring fight. This should have been on regular HBO, not PPV. And to have this huge mismatch at the Dallas Cowboy Stadium, in front of 50,000 people is even worse. I can only wonder what all those people are thinking after seeing these one-sided fights.
Tags: Castillo vs. Gomez, Castillo-Gomez, Duddy vs. Medina, Duddy-Medina, Pacquiao vs. Clottey, Soto vs. Diaz, Soto-Diaz ,Humberto Soto, John Duddy, José Luis Castillo, Joshua Clottey, Manny Pacquiao79 Responses to “Pacquiao-Clottey a horrible fight and dreadful undercard”
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totally dancing and turtle in the ring lol
hey diesel, you say clottey was cherry=picked???hahahaha, you either hate pacquiao so much or you are just plain stupid!!! granting he clams up like a shell, but look at what he did to judah, cotto and margarito! if you yhink you know better than these fighters, why don’t you ask them how hard it is to fight clottey! words…words…words…get real diesel!!!!
Man i knew this was gonna be a stinker, feel bad for whoever bought this, stinkfest. Man CLOTTEY lost every round which everyone knew was gonna happen, the thing is I cant believe PAC could not knock out the fighter he cherry-picked. After seeing that fiasco, I am so confident that MONEY-MAY will beat this chump if they were to ever meet, but sadly PAC won’t want that to happen unless he runs the negotiations, but he fails to realize that MONEY is no push-over when it comes to the negotiations, he ain’t no COTTO, so PAC will have to compromise, he cant have all the advantages and thats why there wont be a MONEY-PAC fight. But wow and they called MARQUEZ-MAYWEATHER a stinker.
My friends have decided we are going to jump Clotty if we ever see his py as on the street. Maybe then he will fight back. What a wuss!
ALL MAYWEATHER FIGHTS ARE EVEN MORE BORING THAN THIS!
this boxing event was BORING. not even one fight here was any good. not even hardcore fans could be impressed at all. boxing lost a Great opportunity to bring in casual fans to become boxing fans. Pacman did his job, but Clotteys job seemed to have been to just be a punching bag/sparring partner to insure a Pacquiao vs Mayweather fight to happen. Especially after finding out Clottey is Bob Arums fighter too. This was dissapointing!
Hmmm….I read all the comments here it’s very interesting no doubt about it people. As far as I know boxing died few years ago but lately when PacMan or Manny Pacqiao comealong every fight he give credits to the fans around the world and appreciate it and made them happy that’s the entertainment of boxing. He is the best of the best of the century at this time. Every fight are exciting, I even laugh Lary for his Bang!!!!!Bang!!!!!background sounds…you cant blame clottey I guess , I think he feel the fast and furious punch and he dont want to sleep. I cant wait for Mayweather vs Pacman but he has to win with Mosley first otherwise Mosley will fight Pacman…..Let’s keep the Boxing entertainment alive people….
this fight did not start till about 5:10am this is ridicuelous for the eouropean fans it was light by the time pac finished something needs to be done as for the under card it was bad why does the world always bow to usa with your petrodollar wait till our petroeuro comes along youll all be broke i cant wait iraq tried you killed him but iran is about to do it hold on to your dollar
like i seaid before pacquiao must have not took his steroids for this fight
To Dave,
Manny never said Clottey was an easy fight, he clearly stated that Clottey was very tough and hits hard and where are you getting your sources from? He never once mention that he never been knocked out.. He meant that no one has ever KO or stopped Clottey!! Why don’t you learn to listen and understand the man. If you think he punches weak, then maybe you should take a shot from him. He threw over 1000 punches because if he didn’t then there wouldn’t be much going on at all!! Have you ever stepped in the ring yourself? Don’t blame Clottey for covering up so much either, getting punch hurts and I’m sure if it’s from Paquiao it would hurt even more!
The writer is so right, this was one of the most boring matches I seen
what floyd dont understand is? the 40 million is for fighting in Dallas staduim only ,floyd refuse to fight their,as vagas dont have that kind of cash or seats, as the contract was 45,000 +seats = 40 million each.so why do he keep saying manny dont want that cash/fight. floyd has to also give in to fighting manny at dallas staduim too.
I wonder if when mayweather do fight manny will he still be fighting so open ? keep his left hand at waist level and his right below his jaw. that means he have to duck and weave 1,200 punches. ha,a sure knock out,
pac jabbing was hitting well last night.a new thing to counter floyd jab.then when floyd right hand leads and gets crossed pac uppercutter will be waiting.
knew pac was going to fight cottey from a distance with jabs,he did just that when cottey counter pac duck back and counter a combination right back,he never gave the counter puncher a chance to counter. damm if only cottey open up pac could had have that knock out.the clam was protecting his face,not the face please,ha,a too defensive fighter never give his all.
I blame Clottey for fighting such a stupid fight, but in the end Arum is STILL the problem. This fight never should have happened, period.
We all knew it was a mismatch but we thought it would be exciting atleast. Well that was a bust thanks to Clotteys plan. Maybe it was because he didn’t have his regular trainer, I don’t know but it was a DISASTER.
Pac Man cannot have fights like this and the sport survive. He is known for having entertaining fights and that WAS NOT an entertaining fight.
Arum needs to retire and let Manny fight fighters that are not in Top Rank.
I think the “event” got fixed, just look at clotteys girlfriend how upset she was about something in the locker room. Upset about what? I dunno but I have a gut feeling that some one a very wealthy someone possibly bribe clottey to throw the fight
We all expected Clottey to put up a competitive fight. It isn’t Manny’s fault that Clottey lost his balls on the way to the ring.
hey wiliiams there is only want word in webster’s list that can actually describe you that IDIOT.
you say the fight is a mismatch yet in your blog you seem to imply that clottey was winning it with his more telling blows.
which one is it? a writer like you who cannot even make his idea clear in his writing wouldnt be anything more than just a .. yes you got it an internet blogger, i suggest you use facebook or twitter or any other free bloggin site available, youre ashame to this site.
The undercard I considered them as “collecting the retirement
check” thats Arums way of thanking his aging boxer towards the
the sunset of their career.Theres nothing wrong with that.
It could have been better if Clotty decide to engage in a battle
but all the preps are out of the window once you got punched in the mouth.
I’m no promoter Chris, but I would have paid outlandish fees to get a Marquez-Diaz rematch on the undercard. Given the proximity to Houston and Mexico this would have been a no-brainer.
Agreed!
The promoters and their sorry-ass match-making are killing the sport of boxing. I know people that have been real fans of the sport of boxing for 40 plus years that no longer even watch boxing. To be honest with you the only reason that I paid to see this fight is because my son called and asked me if I was going to watch the fight , because if I was he wanted to come watch it with me. I hate what these greedy-ass promoters have done to the sport that I loved most.
Clottey is a coward and a phony just looking for paydays he did the same thing versus Margarito and tried to make excuses he’s good against average competition like Judah but Pacquiao is the greatest of all time ask Mayweather–
Mayweather = only person that wouldn’t take a fight without blood testing for 40 million dollars in the entire world
Manny vs whoever? = 51,000 record breaking attendance (3rd)
floyd vs superstars?(marquez,moseley) = couldnt fill up a 16,000 seat in vegas. They need some WWE wrestler as undercard. And “dancing with the stars” as intermission in each fight to sell out. LMAO
in order to punch with power you have to invest in ground,hold your ground ,drop down to flatfoot and crank up, that leaves you open.
also going forward,not backward. also you cant throw right hand leads as its leaves you crossed, (2 second opening holding) in close.all of these are floyd weakness.
thats what happened if manny fought a defensive fighter like clottey, they will just defend all night because if they punch back they will get knock out, and look at manny he never get tired even he punched a thousand. its a complete DOMINATION!. Manny always make good fighters look bad. And if manny face floyd PEOPLE! ALL FLOYD WILL DO IS DEFEND ALL NIGHT LONG! GUESS WHAT, MANNY WILL AGREE TO 14 DAYS BLOOD TEST BUT FLOYD WILL HAVE ANOTHER EXCUSE, NO WAY HE FIGHT MANNY NOW AFTER WHAT MANNY DID TO A DEFENSIVE FIGHTER!
dam*n wowzabean on the money. i suspected the fight would turn out that way but i still bought it cuz MAYBE IT WOULDNT BE. isn’t that why people buy fights? serious, dont say i told u so after you admitted to buying the fight.
Clottey did not throw, cause he was afraid to get hit. He even said it himself in the post fight…End of story, move on.
Are you implying that you are the messiah in boxing? BTW,are you a former boxer like Freddie Roach?Lay down your profile as a boxer so that we know.All I know is that you and Esteban Garduno,David Lahr are members of the so called blobber-know everything club against Manny Pacquiao.Come to the Philippines and will teach you what is the meaning of your word ignorant.
I like how Josh starts off complaining about the pac-clottey fight and quickly turns it into a Mayweather bashing session. Calling Mayweather the worst fighter of all time. You my friend need to be banned from ever watching a boxing match again. When you get in that ring it’s not only to win but it’s to protect yourself because these guys can end up with some serious problems when they get older. Problems caused by taking so many blows in boxing to statisfy “the fans” I think that’s a lil selfish on the part of the fans. Noone has ever forced a fan to buy any fight. If you don’t like a certain fighter then don’t buy or watch their fights it’s that simple. But to come on here and say Mayweather is the worst fighter of all time it’s just classless and NOONE will agree with you. Not any REAL boxing fans. And by the way MMA puts on a lot of boring fights as well. Randy Couture vs Mark Coleman MAIN EVENT? That was real exciting huh? Rich Franklin vs Vitor Belfort MAIN EVENT even more exciting! Just STFU
like i been saying all along,top rank gone protect their golden egg,clotty threw that fight,they dumb cause manny would have destroyed him anyway from the way he fights,an people actually believe manny has even a shot to beat floyd? they must be crazy or loyal either one will blur your vision an that is manny is a good fighter but floyd is great whether you rush him or stand there can hit hard or throw a lot of punches he has seen them all an has shown the abiltiy to adapt to any style,he has fought from 106 all the way to 154 against the elite fighters an won his title p4p not got it because it was vacated like a belt the way manny got it. I love manny but he has way to many holes in his armor for me to lose my money betting on him against anybody that that has any movement,i will bet the house on him if he keeps fighting fighters who stand in front of him hell the whole world knows where theyre gonna be for the whole 12 rounds right in front of manny.U can say what ever about bob an freddy but never say theyre stupid they choose wisly an get to keep all the profits
Yea Chris Williams you’re absolutely correct. If you had such clairvoyance why did you purchase the fight? You’re such a good boxing analyst, hell, why watch fights at all since you know what’s going to happen.
You’re a joke. Hindsight is 20/20 it’s great how it makes some people look like geniuses. I wouldn’t doubt that Williams and Lahr are the same f*ckn people writing 2 opposing articles. Go two separate directions and always be right. It’s like betting on black and red on the roulette table, you always win, except for the 00 which clearly landed for you, @sshole.
Like I said before the fight even happened unless clottey Knocked manny out he wasn’t going to win even if clottey fought the fight of his life last night if the fight went to the judges manny would still walk away the winner no matter what..
If Clottey, a big tough welterweight with a chin who has never been knocked out was afraid of Manny Pacquiao’s punches, what do you think a cowardly man feels who fights lightweight boxers instead of a legit welterweight like Clottey (unless of course you’re trapped of fighting Mosley because Pacquiao challenge leave you no other choice). Clottey is in his prime while Mosley is a grandfather. Clottey I think is more dangerous than Mosley.
“Josh I disagree about saying a fight with mayweather will be the same because while it is true that Mayweather is a defensive fighter, he has nver fought not to win……..that is the biggest difference between him and Clottey……….Clottey just wants to survive……Mayweather wants to win. Can yoou or ANY body here please pointt to a series of fights to show that Mayweather is a “boring fighter”.”
http://www. youtube. com /watch?v=FYA49V_P4qs
I dont know why some people are still hating on the pacman. he did what he needed to do by throwing 1231 punches for crying out loud. He tried to at least knock him out but failed. But at least he tried. Just proves once again that it takes two to tangle.
You know hat’s truly amazing, on the lead up to the fight Arum can’t tell fans enough what a tough opponent Clottey is and how this is going to be Pacs biggest challenge. And the all the Pactards join in talking about how big, strong he is; what a great fight.
Now Arum tells us there was no way Clottey was going to beat Pac, not even if they take the gloves off and fight bare-handed. Count the money Bob, you a helluva guy.
It is BREATHTAKING what Pac has achieved over the last 4 fights – whatever his detractors want to throw at him sounds more and more desperate by the minute. I think any fair minded person would have to say what he has done has put other fighters in the shade – including Mayweather.
Josh I disagree about saying a fight with mayweather will be the same because while it is true that Mayweather is a defensive fighter, he has nver fought not to win……..that is the biggest difference between him and Clottey……….Clottey just wants to survive……Mayweather wants to win. Can yoou or ANY body here please pointt to a series of fights to show that Mayweather is a “boring fighter”.
People say Mayweather is boring but by no means would Mayweather run block and not throw a punch in return clottey did nothing to even try to make manny think twice the more I think about that fight and replay I start to think they paid him to take a dive he didn’t look nothing like he did in his other fights he actually tried to win his other big fights this one he was just there and that’s all he showed up that’s it..
If clottey would’ve at least tried to win I would be happy but his best round he threw 39 punches wtf?? That’s not even the average for a ww fight the average is 56 when he did land he rocked pacman back so I thought he would do more after he seen he was moving pacman back but he still just covered up its a shame that a fight is given to pacman just for being busy he didn’t connect with anything clean he landed a few body shots but overall all pacman did was throw a lot of punches that just hit arms and gloves they should’ve just stopped the fight..
All roads lead to maywheather lol only a matter of time like he keeps saying no mAtter what any other fighter does after he beats sugar n a very tough fight he will have options to fight who ever he wants and where he want all u other fighters boss up it’s your blood sweat why the promoter getting more money then the fighters Floyd does things his way don’t like him don’t watch him but you haters will max kellermens, Jim lampley, bob arums, stewarts, main stream media , Lol
That fight is the main reason why boxing has gone down the tubes, no doubt about it. If you don’t bring in both fighters that are willing to actually fight, then the match is and always will be a snooze fest. Now please don’t jump on me for saying this, but this is the reason why MMA is pulling huge attention away from boxing. I don’t like watching MMA personally because I enjoy the class and strategy of boxing, but when you have fighters like Clottey that go in just to survive instead of fight, MMA is only going to get stronger and more popular.
I would take those short 2 rounds of Hatton/Pacquiao over 50 rounds of Pacquiao/Clottey anyday, not because of the way Hatton got knocked out but because of Hatton’s hunger to win. He got knocked out but who cares, he put on a great fight and I give him way more credit than I do Clottey.
I’m quite sure when the Mayweather/Pacquiao fight happens, its going to be more of the same we saw last night. There is a reason why boxing has lost lots of its attention in the past ten years and its because of overly defensive fighters like Floyd Mayweather and those like him. All point wins and no real fights. Floyd says hes the greatest fighter that ever lived, no hes the worst fighter that ever lived, and one of the most boring. Ali could have lost 35 fights and he would still be a better fighter than Floyd.
clottey is old weight drained amd non talented
SARCASM
lolol…like someone said below, I think that the most exciting thing about last night was hearing Jim Lampley…….BANG……BANG……BANG!!!!…..lolo. He really sounded like a desperate old man.
Another flat footed BUM! Typical Pacquiao… Whats new people?
That was litterally…. quite possibly, the absolute worse card of PPV fights EVER, considering that it was a showcase to something as spectacular as the Dallas Stadium. The glitz and glamour of the stadium, and the stars that attended were much more interesting than watcning ANY of those fights. Jerry Jones will probaly NEVER listen to Bob Arum again…lolol…..because Jones’s “Taj Mahal” will forever be associated with that fiasco last night…..ONLY a fight of the magnatude of a Floyd vs Pac should be used to showcase a stadium such as Jone’s, but it was a total waste to use it for Clottey vs Pac…..lolol…..a fight with a 7-1 underdog….this will go down as one of the most overhyped billings for a PPV fight EVER.
Maybe Clottey just didn’t want to be KTFO. Maybe he wants to keep more brain cells active after his boxing career is over. Maybe he didn’t want to mess up his purty face. One thing is certain… that dude can strut. Other boxers should pay him to walk down to the ring for them. Easily the most impressive part of Clottey’s night.
I think It’ll end up being Pac vs Mosley. I was at the Mosley vs Margarito fight @ Staples Center, & if that same guy I saw that night shows up on Ma1 1st… It’ll be pac vs sugar.
Clottey didn’t even try to win.. If his gameplan was to let Pacquiao get tired, then once he seen that Pacquiao wasn’t about to tire he should’ve at least made it look like he wasn’t paid to stand there and take punishment even when pacman would cover up and block Clottey would only throw 3 punches and start blocking he was telling his corner no when they told him to take a chance.. People can say what they want about Floyd but I bet anything you will never here Roger tell him he’s losing and to take a chance Clottey did not want to win I thought he would fight hard he was only paid 1.5 million if he would’ve pulled the upset he would’ve made millions no matter if it was a rematch or another fight he blew his shot he should not be in the picture again with that performance he gave last night..
Manny took everything Clotty offered,isn’t it enough? He took a couple of good shot from Clotty too.Some people criticize Clotty
like they can take him in the ring,he is a good boxer,he has beaten few good ones,and his loses are close.Manny just made him
look really bad.
Mayweather was not on the fightcard last night,still he is mentioned in some comments here.He get his handful from the old guy comes May 1…If— EVER—- its going to materialize without hmmmm…injury or anything to cancel the fight.
CHRIS WILLIAMS WRITER ANALYSIS SUCKS..GO BACK TO COLLEGE, HEY THERE IS AN EMPTY SEAT NEXT TO JUAN DIAZ(LAW SCHOOL),YOUR NOT A PROFESSIONAL YET, JUST AN INTERN WRITER CAPABLE OF MAKING FUNDAMENTAL ANALYTICAL MISTAKES.
IMPERIAL FACT VS WISHFUL THINKING (CHRIS THE NOVICE WRITER)
CLOTTEY IS RANK 5/6 WALTER WEIGHT, BEHIND BERTO. SO PACQUIAO STILL HAS TO GO THROUGH HIM..ONLY MOSLEY, MAYWEATHER, BERTO NOT AVAILABLE, SO IS HE GOING TO WAIT OR FIGHT? DUH!!!!!
After watching last night, I can’t see neither Floyd or Shane winning against Manny now. How do you stop a guy who won’t tire? He’s got a granite chin & he’ll throw 1200+ bombs at you. And after all that the guy looks like he can go another 12. Unbelievable. I’ve never seen anything like it. On top of it all, he finds time during the fight to crack jokes and laugh at you. Playing around with that 2 fist pat. I just can’t see anyone beating this guy…
I think everyone is overlooking the obvious. Clottey laid down in this fight plain and simple. Not because he was scared or a defensive fighter. I think it has more to do with his Top Rank affiliation. Remember, Margarito throws over a 100 punches a round and Clottey arguably beat him. Margarito is bigger, stronger and more imposing than Pac. When Clottey did throw, he connected and did so effectively. So the question that people must start asking is simple: Did Clottey take a dive for Top Rank’s main star? If you look at his statistical punch output the answer to that question is simple. The post-fight interview was one of the strangest I have ever seen. It was Mayweather / Pac promo. Shame on Bob Arum, Freddie Roach and Joshua Clottey. I was a Clottey fan until yesterday.
Lol at the double punch! That was funny!
here they are, showing up one by one with their own excuses, i told you so. it’s now hating time, blame-on-pac attitude coming from pac haters-writers (including this one) who still ignore the greatness of manny pac. what options for pac next, only ONE, that’s FLOYD to shut up this non-believers. mosley, if that fight with pac happens will be old by the time since there’s a rematch clause for floyd (in case mosley wins may 1st). after beating FLOYD, the excuse will be, pacquaioa is indeed on ROIDS. come on people, it’s confirmed, you look and judge pac not by his workrate, skills and talent anymore, it’s the CRAB thing! SHAME ON YOU!
“I knew this was a pay-per-view worthy fight.”
Freud!!!
yea, it was a boring fight. although clottey landed clean punches, he didnt do more of them.
pacquiao landed 20% out of 1200 punches he thrown becuz what are you gonna hit with a guy who hides all 12 rounds?
you can see pacquiao’s frustration when he did the double punch lol I would have done the same if i’m fighting a guy who keeps covering his front 90% of the time.
clottey should just have listened to his trainer and take chances. it would have been a much more entertaining fight. he might just pull an upset or get KO, but seriously, hiding all of 12 rounds? he needs to grow a pair.
What’s all this talk about Pac vs Mayweather. There’s a strong chance he may not get past Shane…
Manny beat who he was told to beat end of now lets see if nob head can do the same theres only 1 fight that the public wants but floyd will make up another reason not 2 face the pacman when even stevie wonder can see hes scared of manny
And 4 good reason manny a better man inside and outside the ring
What can I say Chris? Either you’re still a non-believer or Pac-hater….Poor you.
Chris, are you blind? Didn’t you see the number of body punches of Pac that connected? You must be a real sore hater of Pac. Get real. Get a freakin life.
@ MANNY FANS I ain’t no Manny hater.I think he’s good.BUT he ain’t all around good cause he has no defense.MAYWEATHER is great cause he GOT GREAT defense,pinpoint counter punching, and he can mix it up on the inside.If Manny fights like that with mayweather alot of them punches finna hit AIR and just case yall don’t know hitting nothing is more tiring then making CONTACT.Plus we talking bout Mayweather who strikes back like a cobra. Go to youtube and look how fast his punches are.Don’t get me wrong manny is fast to but nowhere near mayweathers fast. BUT HE THROWS ALOT of more combos then Mayweather.
bigger dissapointment than the NBA All Star Game….Jerry Jones is somewhere shakin his head….but countin his stacks all the while
I dont’ want to see pacquiao fight any more scared ass niggas,,, tha’ts all they do is hide like lil beeyatches.
BOB ARUM MADE HIMSELF LOOK LIKE AN ASS BY SAYING WHAT HE SAID ABOUT CLOTTEY. IF YOU KNEW THIS & SO DID ANYONE WHO KNOWS ANYTHING ABOUT BOXING, WHY PUT THIS CRAP TOGETHER. I GUESS I COULD UNDERSTAND FIGHTING A DEFENSIVE FIGHTER IN PREP. FOR FLOYD, BUT THAT IS NOTHING LIKE FLOYD’S DEFENSE. TO ME THIS WAS NOT A GOOD LOOK FOR PAC BECAUSE IT SHOWS HE HAS PROBLEMS HITTING A DEFENSIVE FIGHTER. THROW IN SOME LATERAL MOVEMENT & HEAD MOVEMENT, NOT TO MENTION PERFECT TIMING W/ COUNTER PUNCHES & I SEE PAC LOSING TO FLOYD. TOP RANK SHOULD BE ASHAMED OF THEMSELVES.
Clottey is ranked fifth by the Ring, beat Judah and Corrales, and inflicted heavy damage on both of them, fought Margarito competitively and got a highly disputed SD with Cotto. Now suddenly he’s a bum. This is one of the sorriest boxing sites on the Web mainly because it uses sorry writers like you.
Bob Arum fixed this fight.
How can he say that! Like i said 80 % of Pacquiao fans know nothing about boxing.
Bob Arum has been protecting Manny Pacquiao after Pacquiao escaped with a decision over Marquez.
Putting PAcquiao in with guys who dont have the style to beat PAcquiao.
in 24/7 Coto vs PAcquiao Freddie Roach “Cotto is not the same fighter he used to be, after the Margarito fight he isnt the same”
If Pacquiao fights Mosley or Mayweather both fighters who can implement the things Marquez was able to do against PAcquiao. Pacquiao will get handled easily.
Diaz, Hatton, an old Del La Hoya a damaged goods Cotto and a punching bag Clottey!
LOL very impressive!
Bang Bang Bang LOL at Jim Lampley
I thought it was quite a good fight. It would of been interesting if clottey had fought the way he did in the 11th round all fight. Thank god for sky sports. It was free! And we get mayweather mosely free too!
Jabber, what exactly is there for Floyd to be scared about???
yo jabber
whats floyd got to b scared of, of all the punches manny throws and misses? that jus falls into floyds plans let the guy throw n floyd will pick em apart. if he only landed 20 percent on clottey how much u think he gon land on money. u seriouse?.
Clottey was a big black punching bag.
u kno wats funny. after the fight bob arum sayed.”theres no way this guy was goin to beat manny. even if he took his gloves off n fought him bare handed.”. now heres what i say if u knew there was no way y did u set up this fight. answer. because pacfans know nuthin bout boxing and will lissen to nething tam pacman tells em. im a huge boxingfan i watch everything thats on tv and ppv. i even go to local shows. but i decided to skip this one out. becaus ei knew the outcome.
Yes… yes it was a boring fight but I think it was interesting to watch, played out exactly like boxing fans thought it would!
So true I unfortunately bought the event in hd so I paid more big mistake I will only watch a pacquaio fight unless he goes up against either mosley or mayweather and as for clottey; dude needs to reinvent himself cause I’m never paying to see him again
It was the boxing equivalent of one of football’s international friendly fixtures when no major tournament is in sight: the only benefits are fiscal.
Good tune up fight for Pac in prep for Flo’s defense. Flo will even be more scared now.
Not a happy bunny are u Chris In the uk we got to watch it for free.lol Possibly agree with u about it not being the greatest fight, but thats not mannys fault. Clottey is just boring.
listening to all the pactards for the past month , this was going to be a great fight !! why not just hang a heavy bag in the center of the ring !! bob could have saved the money he paid clottey to stand in front of manny !! these same pactards will watch mayweather vs. mosley (the two best welters) and say floyds boring ?? espn has had much better fights all year so far !!