Clottey-Mosley: “I Will Win” – Joshua

By Boxing News - 09/07/2009 - Comments

clottey3434By Jason Kim: Welterweight contender Joshua Clottey (35-3, 20 KO’s) is confident about his chances to beat World Boxing Association welterweight champion Shane Mosley (46-5, 39 KO’s) and take his title away from him on December 26th at the Staples Center, in Los Angeles, California.

Clottey, 32, feels that he’ll win the fight, but likely not by a knockout. ” I will win. I will be ready to go all 12 rounds, but if a KO does come, it will come,” Clottey says. This will be one of the biggest tests for the 38-year-old Mosley in quite some time. Mosley had things pretty much had own way in his last fight almost a year ago against Antonio Margarito.

Mosley was able to use his speed, clinching and in and out attacks to beat up the slower Margarito. This tactic won’t likely work against Clottey, because he has much faster hands than Mosley and will be ready for him when he comes in range trying to throw his combinations. More than that, Clottey has excellent power and is capable of delivering it in threes by tripling up on many of his hooks to the head and body.

Apart from Mosley’s fight against Miguel Cotto in 2007, Mosley hasn’t faced anyone with near the capabilities to throw combinations like Clottey in the past two years. Mosley has fought Luis Collazo, Cotto, Ricardo Mayorga and Margarito in the past couple of years, none of them as good as Clottey and firing off punches in rapid fire succession.

This isn’t going to be an easy fight for Mosley, and he’s going to get hit a lot more than he has since his fight against Cotto. Mosley got lumped up pretty good in that fight, but probably not as much as Mosley will against Clottey. Mosley is two years older now and is facing a fighter that likes to brawl at close range.

Mosley might was to use an in and out attack to win this fight, but it probably won’t work well due to the speed, timing and power of Clottey. Things won’t be as cut and dried as it was in his fight with Margarito and Mosley will find that he has to get dirty to get this win.

Clottey almost beat Cotto in his last fight in June, narrowly losing by a controversial 12 round split decision. That tells you that Clottey has the talent to make a fight against Mosley very tough for Shane.



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