F*cking Clottey.

Thread starter is right on

 

Cotto has never recovered from Margarito. Clotteys performance against Cotto therefore was good but, verse vintage Cotto I'd say that the man gets beat soundly.


Now lets acknowledge the reality that hes the top 10 WW and were just internet fanboys.

That out of the way.. the valid criticism is that he is a routine underperformer and this was his penultimate underperformance.

Clottey could have done so much more and was landing on Pac at will. When Clottey was the aggressor it looked like he could take Pac to war and maybe out muscle him (of course thats not his style).... problem is he only willed himself to do so a couple times a round.


I'm not impressed with his ability to take this kind of punishment because by now its been established that with his build and (and appropriate work ethic to maintain it) being built like a tank, the punches at this weight just do not effect him. He could fight at middleweight easily and his chin could probably stand up to men from heavier weight classes then that.


So yes, Pac gets his due he did what Pac does and gave a typical excellent performance. But this moment the focus should be on Clottey and the complete squandering of the opportunity he had, which was predictable because that has been his approach in the past (against men that fall under the very good/elite category).

Because Clottey gets by on a consistently/ defensive + comfort-zone style approach.. and has absoultely the perfect genes to do so and have effective success.