By Esteban Garduno: Joshua Clottey says he was suffering from another type of bout the night he fought Manny Pacquiao last Saturday night, this one involving his backside. Clottey apparently had a bout of diarrhea, a bad case where after eating a stew consisting of Banku and Okra, it caused Clottey to fly to the toilet 10 times between the night before the fight and the day of the fight. Going with your backside that many times had to have depleted water from Clottey’s system, making him weaker than he might have been otherwise.

In an article at Myjoyonline, Clottey says “When I ate after the weigh in, I was running [he was going with his back side]. The midnight I went to the toilet almost like four times, in the morning I went to the toilet like three times, and when I went to the dressing room I went to the toilet like three times.” As you can see, Clottey was hardly fit to fight the night of the fight.

It’s too bad the fight couldn’t have been called off, because there’s no way a fighter can go with their backsides that many times and still be in good enough condition to put in a grueling 12 round fight. I noticed that Clottey looked horrible the night of the fight. He had this withdraw, drained look about him. Now that I realize that he had emptied almost entire body of liquid because of his backside problem, it explains why Clottey didn’t throw more punches.

You can count on Clottey to normally fight like a demon for 12 rounds. But not on Saturday night. He only threw a few punches and spent most of the fight looking sick covering up on the ropes. I don’t know about you, but this taints Pacquiao’s win over Clottey in my view.