By Dennis Broadhurst: Well, I just saw the fight and admit that it was not the most exciting of fights, however, I think that people should lay off Manny Pacquiao. Pacquiao did amazingly well, landing many more punches on Joshua Clottey than he was hit with, most of them were body shots but still shots.

Pacquiao was not busted up too badly by Clottey apart from a little bruising, the fight should not have taken too much out of Pacquiao, at least not as much as people expected.. I think Pacquiao did remarkably well against Clottey, avoiding being hit too much, apart from the odd straight right hand and uppercut.

Pacquiao landed to the body all night long and Clottey was just not busy enough to compete, as we knew he wouldn’t be, Clottey did not put enough offense together and seemed to be fighting for survival for most of the fight

This fight did show us some things though, the first is that Pacquiao is not invincible and the second is that he should not even consider moving up in weight. We saw that when Clottey hit Pacquiao it did push him back and that is nothing for Pacquiao to be ashamed of as Clottey is a very big guy, however, the fast that Pacquiao got hit by the fairly slow Clottey shows that he would need to improve a little defensively before fighting a fast Mayweather or Mosley. I do not think Pacuqiao should go up in weight because we saw that Clottey, a very big, tough guy was not hurt by Pacquiao’s shots, and seemed to hurt Pacquiao a little when he went on the offence, for this reason I think Pacquiao should saty at welterweight or perhaps put some catch-weight fights together with the light-welterweights.

I do believe that Pacquiao can beat both Mayweather and Mosley with his speed and power if he fights them but I also think that they can beat him, Mayweather with his defence and speed and Mosley with his power and speed. Mosley may have deteriorated badly by the time he possibly fights Pacquiao but his size and power would still be dangerous. I think Mayweather-Pacquiao is a 50-50 fight as Pacquiao would struggle with Mayweather’s defence and counter punching but Mayweather would struggle with Manny’s power and pressure. I think Pacquiao-Mosley would be 70-30 for Pacquiao because he is in his prime just now and Mosley is past it but I do still think that his size, speed and power poses a threat.

I would like to say well done to Manny for proving himself against another legitimate welterwight, well a guy the size of a light-middle-weight, something that Mayweather has never really done (except for against Judah and soon Mosley). I don’t think that Pacquiao should even consider retirement, I think he should have at least 6 more fights, so that he does not feel the urge to come back when he is past it, if he stays around for a couple more years then he could very well retire at the top and not need to ever make a comeback.
Well done to both fighters, Pacquiao for his usual show of skill and Clottey for lasting the distance.