Nathan Cleverly interviewed on the BBC website sounding quite candid about Saturday. http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/wales/30186582 "If we're being realistic I'm not a cruiserweight". "In an ideal world we'd have a weight between light-heavy (which goes up to 12½ stones, or 79.378 kg) and cruiserweight, maybe somewhere around the 13½ stones mark, but there's not." Do you think he could recover himself back at LHW? I haven't seen Saturday's fight yet so I can't really comment.
Dont watch it firstly. Terrible fight. I think hes gone, you cant allow bellew with 2% punch accuracy to beat you. shocking fight. That fight werent even european level, i hold european level to a higher standard that ****, it was like 2 clubfighters going at. :-(( cleverly has lost a step and his fighting spirit. i think he really enjoyed the pints of stella, gravy buns and mash diet.
I have a lot of time for Nathan, find him an engaging, intelligent guy, but his heart isn't in the sport. The warning signs were there when instead of training with Gary Lockett, an offer that was publicly open, Nathan decided to promote a conditioning guy to head coach, seemingly purely because he didn't want to travel away from home. The move up to 200 pounds with retrospect was because of the pay-day against Bellew. Nathan and ****** were publicly offering Foch a catch-weight around 170 only 2 years ago. If he has enough money to pursue other things, and if he's not going to fully commit to a professional coach and making 175 again, Cleverly should never fight again.
They also ended up offered to fight Froch at 168ib, glad it never happened, as I always know Froch would have destroyed him
