Clottey ready to attack against Pacquiao
by Scott Christ on Feb 24, 2010 8:07 PM EST
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Joshua Clottey doesn't plan to run or hide when he gets into the ring at Cowboys Stadium against Manny Pacquiao on March 13.
"I plan to go right at him. There's no way he's chasing me around the ring," said Clottey from his Florida training camp. "I already know what he's all about. He's a great champion. This is a difficult fight. But I am going for the win right away, as soon as the bell rings."
He also believes Pacquiao is worried about facing him. "I know personally he talks about me all of the time and there is a lot of concern in his camp."
Clottey also says they have zero video footage of Pacquiao in camp. I don't know if that's just become the hip thing to say or what, because it seems like every time someone in a major fight is asked, at least one guy is watching no film of the other guy.
It really just struck me tonight that Pacquiao and Clottey are only about two weeks away from getting it on. To be perfectly honest, as big as Pacquiao is and as awesome as it is that they're fighting at Cowboys Stadium, and as totally credible as Clottey is, this really doesn't feel like a "mega fight." There's really not a ton of buzz about this one, and at least part of that has to be the fact that the Mosley-Mayweather fight is, for most people, so much more interesting.
Then again, maybe this'll pick up huge steam in the final week, the way Mayweather-Marquez did. If Jerry Jones and Bob Arum can get this fight featured on SportsCenter for a week or so before that Saturday night, everything should turn out great.
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I’ll be in the front row of the stadium seats…..I hear they have sold 30,000 seats. Damn….I wish this was Mayweather-Pacman! There would have been 100,000 people jammed into Jerry’s Death Star.
$300 each…highest tickets were priced at $700. The week after I bought them, a friend called me an offered me two tickets, for nothing, on the 50 yd line that he wasn’t going to use! He was a season ticket holder and got them free.
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by Drunken cutman on Feb 25, 2010 5:53 AM EST up reply actions
It is strange that there doesn’t seem to be much hype surrounding this fight. Mosely-Mayweather I can understand, but it seems as if the dual between HBO’s dynamic duo and Showtime’s Super Six doubleheader is getting more press than this fight.
Neither fighter was at the NBA allstar game…but Mayweather WAS in the house! I wasn’t at the game, but I saw nothing in the papers or on TV about the fight in the week prior to the allstar game.
huge missed opportunity
Especially when you consider that Manny is a big basketball fan. I’m surprised Jerry Jones didn’t at least try to plug it during his many interviews as well.
by steak_knife on Feb 24, 2010 10:23 PM EST up reply actions
Of course it’s not a mega-fight. How is Clottey going to land anything, really? The punch stats in favor of Pacquiao after this fight are going to make his overwhelming numbers against Cotto look like a pittance. Clottey will be pressed to get anything at all off in this fight. I give him zero chance.
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Nobody gave Marquez any chance and that fight sold a million. That was a mega-fight. Of course Marquez had a fanbase and Clottey, uh, doesn’t.
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by Scott Christ on Feb 24, 2010 11:27 PM EST up reply actions
Of course name value is critical in making a mega-fight
But a competitive match is important too.
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by Matt Miller on Feb 25, 2010 12:06 PM EST up reply actions
How so?
Personally I think that comment is completely unjustified given the difficulty of the opposition Pacquiao is taking on here. The tactical and physical factors in this bout make it nothing less than intriguing.
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by Drunken cutman on Feb 25, 2010 11:53 AM EST up reply actions
really?
I see Clottey just shutting down behind that turtle shell defense before the Pacquiao onslaught. And I don’t think he has the power to worry Manny much. What am I missing?
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by Matt Miller on Feb 25, 2010 12:08 PM EST up reply actions
Clottey has a big right hand
Everyone else he’s faced since Diaz has been left hand dominant, and that’s been by design.
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I do find it hard to see the fight as appealing based on Clottey’s hyper defensive style, but beyond that I think he has a chance to make Pacquiao struggle to be effective, and it will be very interesting to see what pacquiao does to overcome Clottey’s strong gurard.
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by Drunken cutman on Feb 25, 2010 6:06 PM EST up reply actions
I beg to differ
Look at his KO rate recently and reconsider that “big right hand.”
One KO is his last 11 fights.
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by Matt Miller on Feb 26, 2010 12:17 PM EST up reply actions
you can tell how comparatively weak it is by the absolute lack of information about it and PBF vs Mosley. in building that one up…..they both now f’d up their follow up fight sales.
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by theworldsoldestsport on Feb 25, 2010 10:37 AM EST reply actions
Clottey is a
big welterweight and has caught people’s attention with his shots before. I’ll believe that he’s going to go after Manny for any sustained length of time when I see it, but this doesn’t seem to me to = a walkover for MP. If it is, I’ll be impressed—
Even if no one else is.
If Clottey comes into that fight with that forward pressure tactic like Hatton, this could be over really quick. His shell defense punch, punch,and then block will serve him no purpose in this fight. You can’t hit what you can’t see. Besides he to immobile in the ring compared to Pacman but who knows what can happen… Shit, USA beat Canada in hockey.
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