Pacquiao-Clottey

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.

By Dave Lahr: Manny Pacquiao is in for a big surprise on Saturday night when he attempts to go on the attack against former IBF welterweight champion Joshua Clottey. Pacquiao is used to having his way against a recent rag tag variety of beaten up and aging fighters but on March 13th, Pacquiao is going [...]

By Dave Lahr: Trainer Freddie Roach is wary of his fighter Manny Pacquiao getting hit with head butts and uppercuts from challenger Joshua Clottey, and to prevent from Pacquiao getting hit with either, Roach says he’s going to have Pacquiao fight from the outside. In an article at TVNZ, Roach says “Sometimes he [Clottey] uses [...]

By Eric Thomas: As of the last count, there have been a total of 41,000 tickets sold for the March 13th fight between Manny Pacquiao and Joshua Clottey at the Dallas Cowboy Stadium, in Arlington, Texas. Top Rank promoter Bob Arum expects another 4000 tickets to be sold by the end of the week, which [...]

By Chris Williams: Joshua Clottey (35-3, 20 KO’s) is counting on Manny Pacquiao to be throwing a lot of punches when he fights him on Saturday night at the Dallas Cowboy Stadium. Clottey is ready for anything that Pacquiao will be bringing to the ring, and he won’t be catching Clottey off guard if he [...]

By Dave Lahr: Freddie Roach, the brilliant trainer for Manny Pacquiao (50-3-2, 38 KO’s), says that they will be trying to get a knockout win over the usually steel-chinned Joshua Clottey on March 13th. Roach says in article at Sport.stv.tv, “We’re going to throw [Clottey] off in the first four rounds. He has never been [...]

By Dave Lahr: Freddie Roach, the trainer that likes to make predictions, is now predicting for his fighter Manny Pacquiao to stop Joshua Clottey in the 6th 7th rounds on March 13th. Roach likes to start high with his knockout predictions and then come down in the rounds as the fights draw nearer. In this [...]

By Andrew Hall: Its only a week away. Fight fans everywhere are in a state of high anticipation. The training schedules of both fighters is slowly being tapered off in order to conserve energy. Both fighters are apprehensive. They feel tight. Nervous. Their minds are racing with all the various scenarios this fight could bring. [...]

By Eric Thomas: World Boxing Organization welterweight champion Manny Pacquiao pummeled his trainer Freddie Roach during a recent sparring session while the 50-year-old Roach wore body armor and hand mitts to block the shots of Pacquiao. According to Abc- Cbn News, some of the shots that Pacquiao threw grazed the chin of Roach. Pacquiao apologized [...]

By Chris Williams: World Boxing Organization welterweight champion Manny Pacquiao supposedly has created a new fighting technique to use in his fight against former IBF welterweight champion Joshua Clottey when they meet up at the Dallas Cowboy Stadium. In an article at Abs- cbn news Pacquiao says “We’ve created a new technique. It’s going to [...]

By Sean McDaniel: Freddie Roach is predicting a knockout win for his fighter World Boxing Organization welterweight champion Manny Pacquiao against Joshua Clottey (35-3, 20 KO’s) for their March 13th fight at the Dallas Cowboy Stadium. In an article at GMA News, Roach says “A knockout in the 9th is likely.” Pacquiao has the right [...]

By Gary E G: No I’m not trying to contradict myself, I would just like to respond to some comments that were left on an article I wrote yesterday. Some commentators seemed to believe that I thought Mayweather was overlooking Mosley and only had his mind on a Pacquiao super bout. Others believed that Mayweather [...]

By Sean McDaniel: Freddie Roach as usual is predicting a knockout for his fighter WBO welterweight champion Manny Pacquiao, saying in an article at the Manila Times, “He’s [Pacquiao] going to overwhelm him” [Clottey]. With Manny’s speed and his combinations, I do believe he will be the first person to stop Clottey before the 12th [...]

By Ryan Dunn: Joshua Clottey is a bruiser. He’s a solid fighter with a tight stance, and a tendency to bull rush his opponents with intentions of body shots and uppercuts. Sometimes this style yields opportunities to land his power shots, but other times it can set up his blind hooks that cause head butts. [...]

By Dave Lahr: With all the bragging and predictions that trainer Freddie Roach has been making about Manny Pacquiao beating Joshua Clottey by a knockout, Roach is going to have some serious egg on his face should Pacquiao get taken out or otherwise beaten by Clottey on March 13th at the Dallas Cowboy Stadium. Roach [...]

By Esteban Garduno: In the teleconference call yesterday, World Boxing Organization welterweight champion Manny Pacquiao said the following: “I believe I don’t really need to fight Mayweather because what I have actually done in boxing right now, I think is good enough for me.” But is Pacquiao’s career really complete if he doesn’t fight Mayweather? [...]

By Sean McDaniel: WBO welterweight champion Manny Pacquiao said today in a teleconference that he believes that Floyd Mayweather Jr. doesn’t want to fight with him at this time. “Maybe he’s afraid of me or maybe he’s afraid for this fight.” Pacquiao is talking about how Mayweather asked for random blood tests to be taken [...]

By Sean McDaniel: Freddie Roach thinks that Manny Pacquiao will score a knockout over Joshua Clottey on March 13th. In an article at the Manila Bulletin, Roach says “He’s [Clottey] got a good chin but we’ll make him quit sometime late in the fight.” If Roach’s prediction comes true, it would be the first time [...]

By Dave Lahr: Trainer Freddie Roach is feeling good about the chances for his fighter World Boxing Organization welterweight champion Manny Pacquiao against former IBF welterweight champion Joshua Clottey on March 13th. In a teleconference today, Roach said “Clottey’s a very strong guy, he’s a good puncher. I think his best punch is the uppercuts. [...]

By Chris Williams: Look for Manny Pacquiao to fold under the heavy pressure from Joshua Clottey on March 13th. When this fight was first signed, I thought this would be simple cut and dried case of Pacquiao being too good for Clottey. But after seeing how good Clottey is looking in training and doing some [...]

By Kirk Jackson: The fight between Pacquiao and Clottey on the 13th of march is a waste of time. The fight shouldn’t even be happening. To start off, no one really cares about this fight. The only real fight everyone wants to see is Pacquiao vs. Mayweather, which arguably would be one of the biggest [...]

By Esteban Garduno: Too many boxing fans are giving WBO welterweight champion Manny Pacquiao way too much credit for his recent wins over Miguel Cotto, Oscar De La Hoya and Ricky Hatton, and seem to be using those wins as reasons for why Pacquiao will beat challenger Joshua Clottey on March 13th when they meet [...]

By Ryan Dunn: Okay, I’ve been waiting to put this article out for a while now but decided I would do my research first, gather the facts, compare my analysis, and verify my findings. Think of this as a dossier intended to illuminate some truths about anti-doping testing, and a way to address the thousand [...]

By Dave Lahr: There are reports that Manny Pacquiao suffered some leg pains in training for his March 13th fight against Joshua Clottey. Could it be that at 31, Pacquiao is starting to show the ugly ravages of age? It would be the first fighter that got old all of a sudden. Small fighters like [...]

By Eric Thomas: For boxing fans worrying about WBO welterweight champion Manny Pacquiao’s conditioning, they need not fret about it. Pacquiao’s strength and conditioning coach Alex Ariza says in an article at the Manila Bulletin “His [Pacquiao] weight is in check. We didn’t do anything to change what’s been proven. We are in fact ahead [...]

By Dave Lahr: Former IBF welterweight champion Joshua Clottey isn’t impressed with World Boxing Organization Manny Pacquiao and sees him like any other fighter that he’s fought during his career. In an article at the Boxing.fanhouse, Clottey said “I can’t tell you my strategy. I can’t and will not tell you what I’m going to [...]

By Dave Lahr: Not much has been said about the possibility that WBO welterweight champion Manny Pacquiao could lose and lose big to former IBF welterweight champion Joshua Clottey. After all, Pacquiao is little, and has been put in with a number of fading fighters in the past five years. And even recently, Pacquiao’s opponents [...]

By Chris Williams: In reading some of the comments of Manny Pacquiao’s fans, it seems many of them could careless whether he fights a good opponent or a crappy one. Many of them openly say they don’t care. That is so hard me to understand as a boxing writer. How can you not care? Is [...]

By Armando Paz: After the Soap Opera better known as the Pacquaio-Mayweather negotiations ended the question aroused who should be the next opponent for both fighters? For Pacquaio, names such as Paulie Malignaggi, Yuri Foreman, and Timothy Bradley all came up. Foreman the World Boxing Association junior middleweight champion a fellow Top Rank fighter was [...]

By Jason Kim: Manny Pacquiao (50-3-2, 38 KO’s) says he’s not afraid of taking blood tests in an interview at Fightfan. This kind of flies in the face of what many boxing fans feel about the Filipino star. Some people think that Pacquiao was the reason why his fight against Floyd Mayweather Jr. didn’t materialize [...]