GET OF HIS CASE ALREADY! clottey fought a good brave fight!

these people calling Clottey a coward aren't even worth a response

 

We all know who the naysayers are.
Same dudes with the same opinions as before, but they just need a twist.

 

He fought the only fight he could fight. That's his style. People who don't watch boxing probably wouldn't realize this.

He could have been a little more active at times, but he really had no chance to win. Pac was too good and had a perfect gameplan coming in. All those body shots were bothering Clottey, and the constant movement was confusing him.

This is just another case of a very good fighter being dominated by Manny Pacquiao.

 

Whatever. A man goes out on his shield. Morales did it. Twice. True warrior. So what if he got sparked out within 3 in the third fight...He still gave it his all. Cotto gave it his all despite being dominated. I would say even Barrera who fought scared in the rematch with Pac still showed more heart in his 'survival' effort. Man, **** Clottey. Defend his ass all you want. Remember though, he did enough defending for the entire world to have a rightful fire burning under their ass for having paid for such incompetence, and there are more than enough flames to go around.

 

Ive been on and off this site for years, and although I rarely post in the general, I do read threads, especially after big fights.......and the reaction to clottey is typical oof this forum whenever a well known fighter loses......remember pavlik caught all kinds of hell after his hopkins loss.
I was also dissappointed that clottey seemed just to be there to survive and collect his check, but like someone said earlier, its hard to be active against someone with pac's punch output

 

Bull****. The old timers are rolling in their graves. Clottey took virtually zero chances in trying to win the biggest fight of his life. If that doesn't deserve criticism, then what does? Down the stretch Pac was more desperate to knock him out/down and to entertain the crowd than Clottey was to win. That says something...

 

Pac's punch output would have dropped if Clottey had done ANYTHING to dissuade him. He didn't throw that much against Cotto because Cotto actually came back with something. Pac could throw 110 punches a round because Clottey was only throwing 30.

Clottey made no adjustments from round 1 through round 12. As you said, he just wanted to survive and pick up a check. He wasn't willing to risk anything, even when it became obvious that there was NO way he could win unless he took a chance. Maybe he's not a coward, but I have a hard time coming up with another word to describe a boxer who spends 12 rounds refusing to take even a single risk to win a fight.

 

it was an embarassing affair and underwhelming to say the least. there was nothing "brave" at all about that performance.

there was little to no effort to win. hatton, cotto, (save perhaps oscar) etc. all looked better in defeat.

 

More brave than the dude who was so scared he was on steroids he literally had to tarnish the guy's credibility with made up accusations.

Clottey signed to fight.
Mayweather asked his dad what a-side meth is.

 

The wannabe net toughs who know all about boxing fail to see Pac's volume played a MAJOR part in Clottey's inactivity. It was almost a sort of replay of Williams vs. Wright.

 

This is what happens when you are trained by a cutman and take a big fight on ''short'' notice ... I HOPE THIS WAS THE CASE .

 

I agree but Clottey has always kinda lacked heart. And that's really just the way he fights.

I think Manny's body punching and movement was bothering him quite a bit. He got discouraged. But I agree that he should have shown more of himself.