Joshua Clottey vs Gabriel Rosado Dec 19th

Clottey moving up and trying to make some noise at middleweight?

Clottey is too tight and to accurate for Rosado. But he has a tendency to get injured but that also might be because he was cutting so much weight in the past. This is a more natural weight for him though and if he does well in this fight ... the MW division just got a little juicier for 2016

 

Hes older, not sure hes past it though. Clotteys talent was always been underrated, but its also because he needs to control the pace or else disappears in fights and goes defensive for far to long.

 

Wow i need to start following your predictions, because i think i can win a lot of money off the complete opposite results of what you foresee

 

I dont think Clottey stops him, possibly kd, but i think he definitively wins a wide UD. Clottey very accurate, very good counter puncher, poised and underrated speed with a very tight D, built like a tank, he'd probably even be nice sized at middleweight. Rosado could have a chance at victory with a veryhigh work rate. But it has not been his style of fighting. A high work rate causes Clottey dissappears behind that shell, ala margarito/pacquiao.

 

I never mentioned Mundine bro, try not to invent threads of the convo that don't exist.

Clottey used to rehydrate 15-20 lbs at welterweight, not sure what your talking about

 

He took care of business and basically shut those guys out and KOing Mundine. It would be like in the NBA if the warriors beating the sixers. Are you gonna be impressed? No but the fact they are taking business and winning by 60 points shows that hes doing what hes supposed to.

Not recently but he won on my card vs Cotto. I've always rated Clottey highly as a fighter, he has a lot of strengths. He gives any fighter include an elite one a tough night, unless you come at him with a high work rate and don't get affected by his crisp counters. Because then he will disappear.

Styles make fights. Rosado is not really a slick boxer and not really a big puncher. But fights like hes a boxer puncher. He doesn't commit enough to throwing with bad intentions and he doesn't throw enough combos or have especially tight defense. On top of that he picks his spots to fight with this style. That is a style made for Clottey to dismantle.

Clottey is a better fighter then Rosado. He's fighting at his natural weight class. His chin is Granite. He doesn't have the power to stop Rosado. Only by accumulation, but more likely he will just fight to a decision.

I can only hope Vegas thinks like you do and makes him an underdog so i can makeup for not putting down the 1000 dollars i intended to do when i logged into bovada.lv to bet on Jacobs the night before the Quillin fight but then *****ed out of. I also seem to recall you were the same guy that called Quillen blowing him out in my thread breaking down that fight, which i called correctly.

 

Ok give the anlysis of the fighters, why you think you'd be making a good pick.