Pacquiao - Clottey Fight Discussion

[NUCLEAR BULL]

you know what i think clottey will be a bit harder to burn down then some poeple think....the guys tough has a granite chin, plenty of cuts and stamina and awkard......i think manny will win but wouldnt be suprised if thinks turn out upside down

[HattonTheHammer]

early on a surprisingly very willing joshua clottey manages to trade out the first 4 rounds, through 5-8 pacquaio`s speed really starts to tell and through 9-12 clottey resorts into defense mode and pacquiao takes a comfortable 12round decision

unanimous decision pacquiao, ive got clottey going the whole 12

[Majesty]

Clottey is a good fighter who can win fights but he isn't a winner.

You have to be able to win, like in basketball Bill Russel is known as the best WINNER hey may not have been the most talented or strongest or fastest but he knew how to WIN.

Clottey is big strong and very talented and fast and he can win fights but he doesn't know how to win. If he knew how to WIN he would have tried to stop Cotto in the final rounds. Clottey needs to learn how to close the show, if he did then I'd pick him against Pacquiao. But Pacquiao if nothing else knows now to "win" he has someone like Roach in his corner teaching him how to do those kind of things.

And seriously after the first episode of the Road To Dallas the chances for Clottey are slimming and slimming again. Clottey has no trainer, and the trainer he wanted couldn't make it , cause of Visa issues, but rather then try to fix them he just hired his cutman. Sounds familiar...

Anyway this guy claims to know Pacquiao and that he is the same and nothing has changed.

Know what trainer Clottey should have gotten? Dan Birmingham, aka Winky Wright's trainer. He could help him beat someone like Pacquiao with the style he has and would improve his jab, all the kinds of things he needs to go with Pacquiao. But if Clottey thinks he can just improvise a training camp and beat Pacquiao he is sorely mistaken.

[Fenster]

Clottey has a height, reach, natural weight advantage, decent power and a good chin. This is the biggest fight of his career.

Pac pulled out of a $50 million dollar super fight with his reputation tainted by drug accusations for this.

It has upset written all over it.

Clottey - TKO.

[HattonTheHammer]

Clottey has a height, reach, natural weight advantage, decent power and a good chin. This is the biggest fight of his career.

Pac pulled out of a $50 million dollar super fight with his reputation tainted by drug accusations for this.

It has upset written all over it.

Clottey - TKO.

come saturday night that`ll make/break my night

not because your right or wrong just that your pretty much the only respected poster on saddos who is backing clottey

im saying pac will win a decision, but if indeed your right, i and the entire forum will be at your mercy...............

[Gandalf]

Clottey has a height, reach, natural weight advantage, decent power and a good chin. This is the biggest fight of his career.

Pac pulled out of a $50 million dollar super fight with his reputation tainted by drug accusations for this.

It has upset written all over it.

Clottey - TKO.

Let's hope so. Come on Clottey!

Hopefully this is stage one in the dismantling of the divas. I've been watching more Clottey interviews this morning and I like the guy, it will be good to see him pull out the win.

Everyone is predicting a Manny win and the arguments are persuasive, but anything can happen in boxing. I want an upset!

[p4pking]

Clottey has a height, reach, natural weight advantage, decent power and a good chin. This is the biggest fight of his career.

Pac pulled out of a $50 million dollar super fight with his reputation tainted by drug accusations for this.

It has upset written all over it.

Clottey - TKO.

Let's hope so. Come on Clottey!

Hopefully this is stage one in the dismantling of the divas. I've been watching more Clottey interviews this morning and I like the guy, it will be good to see him pull out the win.

Everyone is predicting a Manny win and the arguments are persuasive, but anything can happen in boxing. I want an upset!

I would love to see it happen as well, but Clottey was a very carefully selected opponent. The matchmaking is top notch in order to preserve the Mayweather fight down the line while giving Pacquiao a good win on paper in the meantime.
I really don't see why on earth Clottey would be any more fired up for this fight than he was against Cotto? Surely he had to know that fight was the biggest of his career, and possibly his last marquee oppourtunity... And he completely gave the fight away. He let Cotto take the last 2 rounds from him when he was MUCH worse for wear, why? He just doesn't have that higher gear it takes to beat top guys, it would have been lunacy for him to really imagine he had the fight won by the judges..
Pacquiao is way to fast for him, Clottey has no equalizer whatsoever, and he can't begin to match the pace Manny is going to set. I actually expect this to be completely lopsided the more I think about it, Clottey might win a round or two of the first five, then he will just continue to cover up falling further and further behind taking punishment. Maybe Manny stops him maybe not, but he's going to completely run away with it after the mid rounds. It's really dead easy to see why the fight was made when you contrast styles, Manny will be in and out all day and Clottey is going to look like a putz by the end of the fight.

[generalbulldog]

I don't see a James Buster Douglass upset in the making. If Pacquiao can take Cotto's shots like they were nothing, I really don't see him having a problem taking Clottey's shots.