seriously peeps WHAT was clottey supposed to do??

Discussion in 'World Boxing Forum' started by Relentless, Mar 14, 2010.


  1. LukeO

    LukeO Erik Morales is God Full Member

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    Yeah, you and every other keyboard owner.
     
  2. Relentless

    Relentless VIP Member banned

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    then you should know well how it is like being in the ring with someone superior and not being able to pull the trigger.
     
  3. u13

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    He should have given himself the chance to win the fight, I don't think that's too much to ask.

    If people are saying that is the best Clottey could do then he simply shouldn't have been in the ring with Pac.
     
  4. lefthook31

    lefthook31 Obsessed with Boxing banned

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    He could have tried to win. How many shots do you have to get to the elite level in boxing? If your losing you have to go to plan b, c, d, whatever it takes to win. He even said he was afraid of getting countered if he threw more punches, so that right there says he was basically ok with losing by decision if he didnt get hurt. Thats the difference between a great fighter and a good one.
     
  5. nipplefloss

    nipplefloss Boxing Addict Full Member

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    I'm not a professional boxer, fighting on the biggest stage of my life, for millions of dollars. And even then I've still managed to get whupped by guys who were better than me and done it without shelling up and refusing to throw punches. You see gutsier performances by outmatched fighters every week on Friday Night Fights, or Boxing After Dark.

    Clottey showed NO heart. If there's one thing you'd hope to see in a supposedly world class fighter it's heart.

    If Clottey gets a pass for a gutless performance then I don't think you can criticize any fighter, ever.
     
  6. lefthook31

    lefthook31 Obsessed with Boxing banned

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    This is different. You owe it to the fans and sport when youre fighting on the highest level of boxing to try and win. That fight resembled a sparring session. All the glove touching and hugging made me feel like I got cheated out of 60 bucks. That was no fight.
     
  7. nipplefloss

    nipplefloss Boxing Addict Full Member

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    Is it shocking to think that a guy who enjoys boxing enough to frequent a boxing enthusiast website also enjoys it enough to do a little bit of it?
     
  8. nipplefloss

    nipplefloss Boxing Addict Full Member

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    Amusingly, the HBO commentary team was saying much the same things about Clottey, and I don't think it was because they have pro-Floyd bias, or because they secretly hate Pac.
     
  9. LukeO

    LukeO Erik Morales is God Full Member

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    I wasn't suggesting the boxing part.
    I was commenting on every one with a computer being an expert.
     
  10. Relentless

    Relentless VIP Member banned

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    you all forget pro fighters are people too.
     
  11. Sweet Jones

    Sweet Jones Boxing Addict Full Member

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    This thread is hilarious. A couple of months ago, we all watched Kevin 'Kingpin' Johnson implement basically the same strategy as Clottey did: a defense-first plan with minimum offensive output that obviously gave away every round.

    Afterwards, the front page of this forum was full of anti-Kingpin threads, calling the man and his mama every name in the book. And 98% of those threads and/or posts were aimed at Johnson's 'lack of effort', 'desire to win', and 'ineffectiveness', not some testament to Klitschko's greatness.

    So why exactly shouldn't Clottey be subjected to the same scorn, for basically turning in the same effort?
     
  12. Atlanta

    Atlanta Obsessed with Boxing Full Member

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    Because in the ******* handbook, page 43 paragraph 2 line 4, to attack Mayweather every fighter Pacquiao faces has to be a 10 foot tall giant with the skills of Ali, Tyson, Robinson, Leonard, and Hagler rolled into one.
     
  13. Hatesrats

    Hatesrats "I'm NOT Suprised..." Full Member

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    Clottey should have fought like this was his last shot ever...
    This was the fight he and every other Boxer dream of..... This/That was the BIG one.

    At least have the balls to go out on your back, Take a ****en chance.
    If Pac knock's you out oh well!

    You lost either way.
    IMO, Clottey losing a No-Hitter UD is worse than getting K.O.'d like Hatton did Vs. Pacquaio.
     
  14. PetethePrince

    PetethePrince Slick & Redheaded Full Member

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    Including the expository LukeO. The enlightened one.

    :bowdown
     
  15. nipplefloss

    nipplefloss Boxing Addict Full Member

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    Firemen are people too, but we still expect them to run into burning buildings when we wouldn't. Policemen are people too, but we still expect them to protect us at risk to themselves.

    Some people have risky jobs. Professional boxers are a group of just such people. Their jobs are, by nature, dangerous. You expect them to take risks, otherwise you wonder why they are in the line of work they are in. When a boxer is unwilling to take any risks to win a fight then he probably ought not to be a boxer.

    And, hell, Clottey wasn't even beaten up. Pac looked worse at the end of the fight than he did. Clottey suffered nothing worse than a bloody nose. If he'd opened up and caught a beating maybe you could understand his tentativeness. But he left the ring in about the same physical shape as he entered it. How is that excusable from a guy who is supposedly world class and teak tough and all of this other bull****?