Arlington, Texas- 51,000 attendees at Dallas Cowboys Stadium and those watching via pay per view almost had to check if there wasn’t a chain hanging from behind Joshua Clottey’s back as he played the role of heavy bag to Manny Pacquiao on Saturday in their bout for Pacquiao’s WBO welterweight title.
The bout was pretty much fought at the same pace throughout with Pacquiao (51-3-2, 38 KOs) darting in and throwing quick shots at a Joshua Clottey (35-4, 20 KOs) who seemed more than content to block those shots with hands held high while throwing nothing in return.
Most vexing about the fight was that, on the rare occasions where Clottey did let his hands go, he had success and seemed more than able to do some real damage to the Filipino. Unfortunately for Clottey and his fans, the fighter from Ghana never really chose to put in the work to take the welterweight crown from defending champion, Pacquiao.
Final scorecards correctly represented the one-sided nature of the bout: 120-108, 119-109, 119-109 all for Manny Pacquiao. The BTBC also had it scored 119-109.
On the undercard, Humberto Soto (51-7-2, 32KOs) displayed class and skill by outpointing David Diaz (35-3-1, 17 KOs) to take the WBC lightweight title via unanimous decision.
Humberto scored two knockdowns in the bout, one in the first and one in the twelfth to seal the deal.
Scores were 115-111, 117-109, 117-109. The BTBC had it scored 116-110, also for Soto.
Also, on the card, Alfonso Gomez (22-4-2, 11KOs) beat former champ, Jose Luis Castillo (60-10-1, 52 KOs) via RTD 5 as Castillo opted not to come out of his corner before the sixth round.
In the opening telecast of the ppv telecast, John Duddy (29-1, 18KOs) put in a workmanlike effort to beat a game, but slightly behind the curve, Michael Medina (22-2-2, 17KOs) via unanimous decision. Judges scores were: 96-93 all the way around.
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I was there. As that fight wore on, we were thinking, “Clottey is just happy to be here.” Like you said, when he punched, he found success and he marked up Manny a bit. If he threw more, he could’ve done more damage and possibly have gotten him out of there. I scored it 117-110 based on Clottey’s punches connecting because his were more effective. Manny won on pure volume punching.
There were a few delusional Clottey fans who screamed in protest after the fight that they thought Clottey WON!
Everyone was like, “Are you kidding? He barely punched back AND he admitted he lost!”
Clottey was reluctant to threw punches since he kept himself busy defending himself against Pacquiao. He just covered his face the whole rounds because he could be knocked out if he doesn’t. During the first round, Clottey already felt pacman’s power when Clotttey been punched straight to his face and almost closed in loosing his senses.
If Clottey opened-up and tried to fight, he will surely had been defeated just like Cotto. The premise that Clottey was not hurt is not true. Why then did he not breezed through Pacquiao if he was not hurt. He felt the power of Pacquiao that’s why he was scared to open-up. He thought that he will end-up like Cotto. Lenny de Jesus has said it all when he was interviewed by Kellerman. He said that Clottey might have felt the power of Pacquiao that’s why he doesn’t like to exchange.
I truly believed that Clottey got hurt by Manny. Imagine, why would he keep on covering himself up from round 1 through 12? I’ve also noticed that both of Clottey’s cheek bone are a bit swollen up. Of course we can’t noticed anything on Clottey’s face because of the color of his skin.