seriously peeps WHAT was clottey supposed to do??

Yeah, you and every other keyboard owner.

 

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.

 

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.

 

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.

 

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.

 

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?

 

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.

 

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

 

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?

 

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.

 

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.

 

Including the expository LukeO. The enlightened one.

:bowdown

 

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****?