Clottey won't beat Margo in a rematch.

Clottey knows what he has to do to beat Margarito and will do it in the rematch.

It was Clottey with the advantage and the set back in the fight, not Margarito.

 

Clottey does only fight 1 way as a defensive counter-puncher, but he did make an interesting adjustment to Judah. He said he learned from the Mayweather fight that Judah could be hit with the lead straight right and he utilized this repeatedly against Judah which is the biggest reason Judah's face was so racked up. I do think if Clottey would have focused on Judah's body more (namely the left hook downstairs), he would have gotten a stoppage by the 9th round. He went with a different strategy that still worked but made the fight more competitive.

Also, if you re-watch their first fight, you will see Clottey telling his corner early (rd 4 or 5) that his left hand was badly hurt. This is far before Margarito started to land much of anything significant to the body or elsewhere. This being said, I seriously doubt that Clottey was feeling hard punches and pressure from Margarito and decided to fake an injury.

I do not put a lot into the talk of Margarito's injury or long layoff because the guy threw over 1600 punches! If he was so rusty and injured then I kind of doubt that he would have had this kind of output.

All I know is that Clottey was dominating him with his left hand to the body and head, then he says his left hand is badly hurt, stops throwing the left for most of the rest of the fight and loses a decision to a guy who throws 1600 punches at him. At the end of the fight, Clottey's face showed little sign of being hit at all. I do not think Margarito will find him suddenly much easier to hit if they have a rematch. If Clottey keeps his workrate up and doesn't throw away rounds, I give him the edge to beat Margarito.

 

:good :good

 

I see a lot of you not being able to refute what I said about their first fight. One of my ifs that you refer to is " if you would re-watch" their first fight. Let me re-word this for you: You really need to re-watch their first fight. This may help jog your memory a little bit.

I am sure you will come back at this with expletives, but try and control yourself and refute my points, not unleash verbal diarrhea.

Regardless, I guarantee Margarito is not very excited about fighting Clottey again, regardless of how big or little the payout would be and I don't think many people like the prospect of fighting Margarito (except Paul Williams).

 

Going to pick Margarito by UD this time.

 

Here comes the classic frustrated rant. It comes down to this, Clottey doesn't hurt his left hand, he wins. There are no other ifs about Clottey/Margarito. You haven't refuted ****. Clottey isn't even close to my favorite fighter, but Margarito is even further down the list. Margarito is a taller Baldomir with power. Maybe you should take Margarito's dick out of your mouth and try and be a little objective about him. Without his granite chin he would be a journeyman with 15 loses by now. Using your chin as defense is not very skillful. If you don't want people to respond to your threads with intelligent analysis, then get off the forums, sit your ass back down on your couch and keep jerking off to your favorite Margarito fights.

 

what are you stupid? marg not that dumb to not learn from their first fight? dude, pay attention, marg has one style AND ONE STYLE ONLY THAT HE CANNOT CHANGE DUE TO THE FACE THE MAN HAS NO FINESSE IN THERE. So he has no choice but to use the same gamplean from the first fight in which he was getting owned. And clottey had one hand the 2nd half of the fight. You need to watch more boxing man.

 

bull**** with the marg injuries, him and his butt buddy bob arum fabricated that whole cockamamie bull**** to save face to the fact that they almost lost to a dude who had one hand. If he was injured, as in really injured, why was he throwing with both hands like everything was fine? cmon freddy you know that **** was bull****.

 

One hand and an empty gas tank. :yep

 

I think if you can use that injury in a case for margarito. You have to be durable in boxing when you are getting hit and when you are hitting someone. If he's not durable enough to hit Margarito and injures his hand on Margarito's head than that's a bad sign for Clottey and who knows maybe he injures himself if they ever rematch. It's not a good idea to say if somebody doesn't injure their hand they would win. That's kind of like saying if my fighter didn't get hit in the jaw and knocked out he would win. It happened and he lost.

 

Don't believe you have to have been a boxer to be a good boxing analyst and huge fan of the sport. I don't think John Clayton of ESPN ever played football, but he is very well respected as a football analyst and commentator. Conversely, there are many many boxers who don't know **** about boxing. Maybe you took a few too many shots to the head if you really did box. Were you a journeyman or just a club fighter? By the way, I have been watching boxing since Sugar Ray Leonard fought Roberto Duran in the "No Mas Fight". Sorry you can't handle the fact that someone disagrees with your opinion, but I am not some newbie to the sport.