Roach sees quit in Clottey
March 10th, 2010
By Esteban Garduno: In the latest boxing news, Freddie Roach believes that Joshua Clottey tried to quit in his last fight against Miguel Cotto last June in a fight that Clottey lost by a 12 round split decision. Roach isn’t shy about making himself heard, as you can see.
You could see how tired Clottey was because he was breathing through his mouth and had his mouth open gasping for breaths. Clottey just looked exhausted. This is the same problem he had in his fight with Antonio Margarito in 2006. Clottey faded after the 5th round and ended up losing the fight by a 12 round decision. He fought well in the first five rounds, but then did next to nothing in the 2nd half of the fight.
Clottey is upset with Roach and his constant needling of Clottey, especially with Roach making predictions of Pacquiao knocking Clottey out. This clearly bothers Clottey, because he’s never been stopped before, and Roach is predicting quicker and quicker knockouts as the days draw closer to the fight. If Clottey was smart, he’d ignore Roach and understand what he’s trying to do.
Roach is trying to promote the fight by giving good quotes to the media, but the same time he’s hoping that this minor form of trash talking will anger Clottey and get into his head. It appears to be working, and that’s disappointing for Clottey. By now, he should understand what Roach is doing. After all, Roach does the same thing with every Pacquiao opponent. However, Roach isn’t going to be the one in the ring on Saturday night, so Clottey needs to focus on Pacquiao and shut out Roach and other noise in the background that might distract him from his task.
This is par for the course for him. The proof will be in the pudding. Pacquiao has beaten three straight big named opponents to get to this point, but he’s not beyond criticism because his opponents – Oscar De La Hoya, Ricky Hatton and Miguel Cotto – weren’t at their best at the time that Pacquiao fought them, and this was talked about before he stepped in the ring, not after.
And recently, Pacquiao could have fought Shane Mosley or Floyd Mayweather Jr., but instead bypassed the Mosley bout to fight Cotto, and didn’t fight Mayweather because Pacquiao and his team couldn’t negotiate a fight with Mayweather due to Floyd wanting random blood tests to be taken before he would fight Pacquiao.
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pacman is not good he shouldnt be fighting this big and stronger guys he should stay as a lightweight ,they just give the fight to him because his the smaller guy and they dont want them to beat his ass,his overrated from the very start people are giving their fights away to him because he is poor.i think thats the reason why he keeps on winning.there is no way a smaller fighter like him can beat this guys thats impossible,unbelievable…
Pacman sycophants are so annoying. People, Manny is not god. he’s fallible, flawed, makes mistake and can just as easily be knocked out. The author has made all reasonable claims:
1) oscar was shot
2) cotto had a st trainer, was spending the last week of his training starving himself so he could make weight and was coming off gruelling battles.
3) ricky is the only legit win Pacman had and even that people were pointing towards Ricky being shot. just like cotto (although I disagree)
clottey will get his as kicked by manny with his punch ratio… i can see this being very one sided…then it will be psy mayweathers turn for a woopin!
mr garduno you seemed to be so concerned with pac. what do you exactly trying to point here? roach knows manny very well more than of what you know pac. if there’s one person who knows of what manny are capable of doing, he just says of what he sees, as they are. that’s the greatness of roach as a trainer, that’s his job. simple as that. roach seemed gotten into your head, mr. garduno?
Tha only problem I had on clottey is??… He rely on His dfence 2 much.. N he’s style is standing straight forward… N u cannot do that againts manny.. Or else.. It’s gonna make a rain.. I’m talking about punchess.. Bfore u noticed. U allready drown on it.. (speed killz)
Clottey didn’t quit against Cotto but he had a hurt man in front of him & didn’t take the risk needed to win.
As far as the writer’s comment about Clottey tiring after five rounds; you mention this as if it’s a minor detail Clottey just has to adjust.
Fights are 12 rounds. 5 doesn’t cut it, either does 11.
Clottey’s precision punching can throw off Manny’s timing. Manny plans to be firing off all night. If JC blocks everything first and then fires back, he will probably lose. That’s what Roach has planned for, and what Manny will be expecting. But, if JC comes out of his defensive shell earlier than Pac is expecting, he can turn the tables. If he does this and throws stiff enough counters, he will back Manny up, and put him on the defensive. Manny does not fight well out of defensive posture. If JC can manage to keep Manny on the defensive for a long enough period, he can wear him down with his precision punching, and will be able to set up the KO. Clottey’s body punching should not be discounted either, a KO shot to the body is not likely, but not impossible either.
As far as what the author said about Clottey’s loss to Margarito, being due to Clottey running out of gas, that’s not, entirely, true. Clottey broke his left hand, sometime between rounds 3-5. Up to round five he was winning the fight. After round 5, he started favoring the injury, and could not, effectively, use his left hand. So,he started losing rounds to Margarito.
Clottey is going to surprise a lot of people in this fight (even if he fights like he regularly does).
Also, I’m not sure why people say Clottey gave up the last 2 rounds against Cotto.
In round 11:
Clottey 17/47 punches (40%)
Cotto 17/54 punches (35%)
It just isn’t true. What did happen was he didn’t press as hard as he should have, but he still should have won the round (and the fight).
Quitting is a safe option for Clottey. Sometimes you just have to accept reality and in this case, the reality is Clottey has no chance to win in this fight. Why prolong the agony when quitting is just a stall away.
Just because a boxer(ODLH,Hatton,Cotto) have lost a couple of fights that doesn’t make them not a good boxer anymore.
Pacquiao lost a little more than a couple of fights before the Awards and 7th belt,and now he’s one of the best if not the best.
Clottey needs to hurt Minny MCGuire early. Should he slow Minny down and continues to catch him 5 or six times EACH round Clottey stand a good chance.
We all need to see:
1) Has Clottey fixed his stamina issue
2) How will Minny react to Clotteys heavy punching
3) Will Clottey be affected by Minny’s power…or not
4) Can Minny stand up to 12 SOLID HARD PUNCHING ROUNDS FROM A GENUINE WELTERWEIGHT if Clottey has fixed his gas tank…
Let Roach talk all he wants! Just a few more sleep and its gonna be fight night!!!
GO PACQUIAO!!!
GO CLOTTEY!!!
clottey has toooooooo much hard muscle on his body. he needs to stop liftin, do pushups , pull up thatkind of stuff all that muscle your body cramps up. no oxygen in your body. thats why he always wears down in the later rounds. he needs to loose some of that muscle. clottey is slow and can not corner you. if you get hurt by him all you have to do is move and jab, win on point. ala cotto. manny knows this, thats why he is fightin him. manny has yet to match up with someone on the upswing in the last 2 years. delahoya, hatton, cotto, all on the downswing now clottey who lost to cotto. people are just not buying it anymore.
this is crazy. floyd talks and he is the worst most evil person in the world. roach and abrum talk all the same crazy nonsence and its called tryin to mess with clotteys head. whats up with the double standards. roach talks a lot of b.s and no one says anythin about it but floyd is drowned with bad press for doin the same. at least roach is edmitin they are only matchin up with flawed boxers. didnt want to match up with mosley and no one said anythin. this is crazy.
i just watched clottey/judah and i wasnt impressed with clottey at all…the only thing good about him is his ear muff defense…clottey is a slow puncher, low out put of punches, come sraight forward type of fighter…i can see pac/clottey going the distance unless clottey really goes for broke…pac will win easy by his high out put of punches..clottey seems very durable and hard to ko..being durable aint gonna win this fight cause pac is not affected at all by any ones punches..some call mayweather boring…omg
The Roach is just being “silly” at this point! Boxing; In my opinion is a serious contact sport where these athletes run the risk of permanent injury or even death! All of these ridiculous articles and statements from The Roach are nothing more than an attempt at breaking Clottey’s focus! But why waste time there when you’re positive you have the better fighter? Why? When you’re sure you have the better conditioned athlete? When you’re sure your guy is gonna “overwhelm” his opponent? Maybe it’s just me but; I make time to play with and fool around with my children, Other than that I’m a serious man and I don’t have patience for silly man games with The Roach.
IMO Clottey is getting paid to lose…He could even train with is usual trainer…Wonder if Arum had something to do with that..?
Lamotta_91 I agree, I too respect Roach, but this is utter nonsense just all part of the gamesmanship. I see a points decision for PAC…but Clottey will not quit.
Mosley signed a contract with someone else so Pacquiao couldn’t set up a fight with him.
Although i respect Freddie Roach, i cant see where hes coming from clottely is a true warrior, he wouldnt quit on his stool in 100 years. I see pacquiao winning a lopsided ud or even a late tko if he brings his A-game.