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.


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