BOXING: Pacquiao VS Clottey
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lol, yes round 8 commentary was just, bang.... bang, bang, bang... bang., bang, bang, bang.
For a good minute thats all he said for every punch
Awful, truly awful fight, I want to think Clottey was praying for a massive drop in workrate from Pacman as he tires fighting at such a higher punch rate with a pretty poor punch landed rate. Maybe he just came for the paycheck and not to get too hurt, not sure.
Thing is they were saying he was landing the cleaner punches, CLottey that is, but thats what happens when you defend completely and force the other guy to be all out offence. Problem is fighting that way literally means no matter how many clean punches you get the very defensive style will mean you won't land enough clean punches.
Joke of a fight to be honest, 800 + less punches in the fight from him, lol.
As for Pacman vs Mayweather, laughable, Mayweather throws a lot of punches, just because he prefers to counter, he'll happily throw punch for punch with Pacman, the only difference is he'll let Pacman throw first. It wouldn't be even close to this fight.
Frankly I think Moseley wouldn't be a close fight with Pacman, I think it will be far more lively and be more of a trading blows fight, but being more open Pacmans punches landed rate would be WAY up on tonight, he'd probably wear him down and get a KO, thats what he'll do against open fighters frankly at this stage in his career.
the size difference looked huge at the start...he looked about 1.5 stone heavier than pacman. he could certainly defend and take a few punches too but when it came to work rate.... it was a joke.
pacman as always still put on a great show and did what he could to try and get a knockout right till the final bell.
pacman probably threw more punches in any 1 round than clottey did the entire fight.
pacman as always still put on a great show and did what he could to try and get a knockout right till the final bell.
pacman probably threw more punches in any 1 round than clottey did the entire fight.
Indeed, it's becoming all too common to see fights that should be the pinnacle of the sport go this way. It's boring and in a way rather annoying tbh.
I'll give Clottey credit for taking all the body shots, but there's no way I'd class someone willing to hold their forearms in front of their face for 90% of the fight as having a great defence or being overly tough, to me at that point we don't even get a chance to find out how much they can take.
Surely it's got to be Mayweather or retirement now for Pacquiao. When opponents bring so little to the table that even Pacquiao fights become dull, then you know something is wrong
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I don't think Pacman had a particularly good fight to be honest, it was given to him. I don't think Pacman really threw any uppercuts which was a bad move. Clottey's Elbows obviously weren't right together, an uppercut which pushes his arms apart, two in a row would maybe have gotten Clottey far more open to face shots. He really didn't have a great landing rate tonight and didn't really vary his attempts to try and land headshots throughout the fight, same thing start to finish really.
He did, from round 6/7 onwards go through short spells where he punched a little less to try to encourage Clottey to come forward and open up but he didn't take advantage when Clottey did.
Pacman also had some fairly hefty punches against him and far more visible damage than Clottey had, quite a lot of swelling under his eyes with really very few punches taken.
The only great punch he threw was a fighting game type double punch, which was truly hilarious too see in the fight.
Really peeved I stayed up, undercard fights were pretty terrible, main fight was appauling. Moseley or Mayweather will be great fights but in different styles. I really don't see Moseley with a chance, but then I can't see him beating Mayweather or coming close. An open fighter who wants to brawl will just get battered like Hatton, its what Pacman thrives on, when up against a closed fighter with a decent defence well, I think he showed real trouble breaking Clottey down. 1200+ punches against a solid defence and Clottey only lost from his own lack of ambition and quality rather than damage/being broken down by Pacman.
I'm not sure if that was a 30 round fight that Pacman would have gotten any more effective or be able to KO Clottey despite the insane number of punches thrown, which really has to mean something wasn't working there.
He did, from round 6/7 onwards go through short spells where he punched a little less to try to encourage Clottey to come forward and open up but he didn't take advantage when Clottey did.
Pacman also had some fairly hefty punches against him and far more visible damage than Clottey had, quite a lot of swelling under his eyes with really very few punches taken.
The only great punch he threw was a fighting game type double punch, which was truly hilarious too see in the fight.
Really peeved I stayed up, undercard fights were pretty terrible, main fight was appauling. Moseley or Mayweather will be great fights but in different styles. I really don't see Moseley with a chance, but then I can't see him beating Mayweather or coming close. An open fighter who wants to brawl will just get battered like Hatton, its what Pacman thrives on, when up against a closed fighter with a decent defence well, I think he showed real trouble breaking Clottey down. 1200+ punches against a solid defence and Clottey only lost from his own lack of ambition and quality rather than damage/being broken down by Pacman.
I'm not sure if that was a 30 round fight that Pacman would have gotten any more effective or be able to KO Clottey despite the insane number of punches thrown, which really has to mean something wasn't working there.
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