Saturday, March 13, 2010
Lopsided victory by Manny Pacquia against Ghanaian, Joshua Clottey
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zilljanmark insight: It was another lopsided fight by Manny Pacquia. Joshua Clottey absorbed bunch of great punches from Manny Pacquiao. He (Clottey) has no other way but to cover his face and block punches preventing himself from going down on the floor. This is again an awesome performance by Manny Pacquiao, spectacular win for him that make all the Filipinos proud by his achievements. The victory retain his WBO welterweight title and still the pound for pound king.
source: Mark Vester - boxingscene.com
At Dallas Cowboys Stadium in Arlington, Texas, Manny
Pacquiao (51-3-2, 38KOs) won a dominating, one-sided twelve round
unanimous decision over Joshua Clottey (35-4, 20KOs) to retain his WBO
welterweight title. The scores 120-108, 119-109 and 119-109.
At the start of the first, Pacquiao launched a bunch of punches but they were blocked by Clottey. The former champ from Ghana was throwing his jab but Pacquiao was throwing at least five punches to every jab from Clottey. Pacquiao was going to the body to make Clottey bring his hands down. The second saw Clottey go back on the jab. Pacquiao tried to break the defense and went back to the body. Clottey returned fire to the body. Pacquiao landed a counter and Clottey mocked him by dancing around. Clottey landed a good right but he wasn't busy enough to win the round. During the third round action, Clottey started to land some good rights and an uppercut. Pacquiao came right back with shots of his own to the body and the head. Clottey blocked most punches but he was still being outworked. Clottey landed a good right hand as Pacquiao walked in. Pacquiao went right back to working over Clottey's body.
Pacquiao went right back to body at the start of the fourth. Pacquiao was starting to let his hands go, throwing a lot punches while trying to break Clottey's guard. Pacquiao was breaking him down in the corner but Clottey was able to get out and tried to counter. Pacquiao went right back to the body. Clottey would later hit Pacquiao to the body with a counter and a good left hand. Clottey began to apply a lot of pressure at the start of the fifth. Pacquiao tried to do his best to break Clottey's guard. Pacquiao continued to go to the body. Clottey landed a few good punches but Pacquiao came right back with a variety of combinations. The sixth saw Clottey being defensive and Pacquiao baiting him to fight. Pacquiao continued to throw and throw to outwork Clottey. Pacquiao was landing back to the body when Clottey opened up to land a combo.
Clottey opened up a bit at the start of the seventh. Pacquiao started to throw some combos in return. Pacquiao went back to Clottey's body with a big assault of punches and continued to throw nearly 100 punches per round. In the eight, Clottey went to the body. Pacquiao went back to the head and body with punches. Clottey was doing more blocking than punching in every round. Pacquiao unloaded with multiple combinations at the end of the round to the head and body. The ninth was more of Clottey being overwhelmed with punches. Clottey had no answers and stayed in a shell.
In the tenth, Clottey continued to throw one punch at a time and Pacquiao countered with dozens of punches in return. Clottey landed an uppercut and a combo but Pacquiao took the punches and threw back a dozen punches in return. In the eleventh, Clottey actually began to let his hands go and caught Pacquiao with some uppercuts and a few left hands. Pacquiao was firing back so many more punches that Clottey was not able to keep up and would quickly return back to a shell.
The start of twelfth, Clottey came forward and was put back in a shell when Pacquiao unloaded with his combinations. Pacquiao went back to the body but could not break Clottey's guard. Pacquiao continued to outwork Clottey until the final bell.
At the start of the first, Pacquiao launched a bunch of punches but they were blocked by Clottey. The former champ from Ghana was throwing his jab but Pacquiao was throwing at least five punches to every jab from Clottey. Pacquiao was going to the body to make Clottey bring his hands down. The second saw Clottey go back on the jab. Pacquiao tried to break the defense and went back to the body. Clottey returned fire to the body. Pacquiao landed a counter and Clottey mocked him by dancing around. Clottey landed a good right but he wasn't busy enough to win the round. During the third round action, Clottey started to land some good rights and an uppercut. Pacquiao came right back with shots of his own to the body and the head. Clottey blocked most punches but he was still being outworked. Clottey landed a good right hand as Pacquiao walked in. Pacquiao went right back to working over Clottey's body.
Pacquiao went right back to body at the start of the fourth. Pacquiao was starting to let his hands go, throwing a lot punches while trying to break Clottey's guard. Pacquiao was breaking him down in the corner but Clottey was able to get out and tried to counter. Pacquiao went right back to the body. Clottey would later hit Pacquiao to the body with a counter and a good left hand. Clottey began to apply a lot of pressure at the start of the fifth. Pacquiao tried to do his best to break Clottey's guard. Pacquiao continued to go to the body. Clottey landed a few good punches but Pacquiao came right back with a variety of combinations. The sixth saw Clottey being defensive and Pacquiao baiting him to fight. Pacquiao continued to throw and throw to outwork Clottey. Pacquiao was landing back to the body when Clottey opened up to land a combo.
Clottey opened up a bit at the start of the seventh. Pacquiao started to throw some combos in return. Pacquiao went back to Clottey's body with a big assault of punches and continued to throw nearly 100 punches per round. In the eight, Clottey went to the body. Pacquiao went back to the head and body with punches. Clottey was doing more blocking than punching in every round. Pacquiao unloaded with multiple combinations at the end of the round to the head and body. The ninth was more of Clottey being overwhelmed with punches. Clottey had no answers and stayed in a shell.
In the tenth, Clottey continued to throw one punch at a time and Pacquiao countered with dozens of punches in return. Clottey landed an uppercut and a combo but Pacquiao took the punches and threw back a dozen punches in return. In the eleventh, Clottey actually began to let his hands go and caught Pacquiao with some uppercuts and a few left hands. Pacquiao was firing back so many more punches that Clottey was not able to keep up and would quickly return back to a shell.
The start of twelfth, Clottey came forward and was put back in a shell when Pacquiao unloaded with his combinations. Pacquiao went back to the body but could not break Clottey's guard. Pacquiao continued to outwork Clottey until the final bell.
source: Jake Donovan - boxingscene.com
It seemed to
take forever to get to, from the terrible undercard to the three
separate National Anthems played prior to the extended ringwalks.
Once
the opening bell finally rang for the first big boxing even of 2010,
Manny Pacquiao tried his hardest to make the evening worthwhile for all.
Unfortunately for Pacquiao, his opponent wasn’t quite as willing to help put on a show.
Throught
it all, the reigning pound-for-pound king and three-time Fighter of the
Year turned in a virtuoso performance with a lopsided unanimous
decision win over former welterweight titlist and current top contender
Joshua Clottey.
The bout served as the main event of an HBO card,
which aired live in front of a crowd of 50,994 at the newly renovated,
state-of-the-art Cowboys Stadium in Arlington, Texas.
Action
wasn’t exactly overflowing in the opening round, partly due to Clottey
throwing up the earmuffs early, far more interested in playing defense
than trying to take the fight to his naturally smaller foe. Pacquiao
was patient, working largely behind the jab and occasionally scoring
with his laser-like straight left hand.
The difference in speed
was overwhelming in the second. Both fighters were bouncing on their
toes, but it was Pacquiao doing nearly all of the scoring, breaking
through Clottey’s guard to and left hands straight down the middle.
Clottey
attempted to play possum late in the round, before coming back with a
right hand of his own. However, it was one of only 27 punches he threw
in the entire round, nearly four times less the total of Pacquiao.
Urged
by new head trainer Lenny DeJesus to let his hands go, Clottey did his
best to oblige. A right uppercut snapped Pacquiao’s head back, and also
scored with several straight right hands. Pacquiao was still the far
busier of the two, but not landing a lot of clean punches beyond right
hooks to the body and one-two combos through the uprights.
Pacquiao
continued to work the body in the fourth, while Clottey continued to
wait way too long to throw punches. The Ghanaian woke up midway through
the round, but went back into turtle shell defense. Pacquiao continued
to lap him in terms of activity, at one point driving Clottey into a
corner, though nothing of substance landed.
A reversal of
fortunes threatened to surface in the fifth, as Clottey enjoyed success
early in the round. The outburst was short-lived, while Pacquiao showed
no signs of slowing down.
The same held true in the sixth and
seventh rounds, with Clottey continuing to ignore his corner’s
instructions to open up. He instead remained behind his high guard,
waiting for Pacquiao to stop punching before finally throwing the same
basic jab, right hand combo.
Though he was throwing few
punches, enough Clottey right hands caused Pacquiao’s right eye to
begin to swell. Head trainer Freddie Roach didn’t seem concerned over
it, other than requesting more movement from Pacquiao, while Clottey’s
corner demanded he “get creative.”
The eighth round saw both
fighters work the body. Clottey’s attack resulted in the first called
low blow of the fight, coming midway through the round and causing a
brief interruption in the bout. Once action resumed, Pacquiao took
control, cutting off the ring and forcing Clottey to spend the rest of
the round fighting in reverse, often with his back touching the ropes.
With
four rounds to go, DeJesus was blunt in his assessment of his client’s
performance: “You’re losing every damn round!” The statement seemed to
matter little to Clottey, who refused to let his hands go even as he
was well past the point of no return.
A brief deviation from
the script came at similar points in the ninth and tenth rounds, when
Clottey unloaded with several right hands. On both occasions, he
immediately returned to his old style, allowing the smaller Pacquiao to
bully him around the ring.
The crowd came alive in the
championship rounds, chanting “Manny, Manny” throughout an eleventh
round that featured the best round of the fight for both fighters to
that point in the fight. Clottey scored with left uppercuts and
straight rights, but it only left himself open for a Pacquiao tsunami
that never seemed to die down.
With the fight a virtual shutout
heading into the final round, the only question left was whether or not
Pacquiao could become the first to stop the physically tough but
emotionally fragile Clottey.
It never came about, nor was
Clottey particularly interested in allowing Pacquiao to think he could
turn the trick. A rare early left hook caught Pacquiao, only for an
accidental clash of heads to bring an immediate pause to the sequence.
Clottey
let his hands go more often than at any other point in the fight,
though it wasn’t saying much. Nor did Pacquiao seem particularly
threatened, continually letting his hands go in his typical
determination to close the show.
The reading of the scorecards
was a mere formality, with Pacquiao winning by deservedly wide margins
of 120-108 and 119-109 (twice). He racks up his 12th consecutive win
dating back to 2005 as he improves to 51-3-2 (38KO) with his first win
of 2010.
Clottey remains the poster child of hard luck fighters,
having not won a fight since his vacant title-winning effort against
Zab Judah in August 2008. The loss to Pacquiao is his second straight
as he dips to 35-4 (21KO).
Prior to Saturday, Clottey has always
contended that he should still be undefeated. Pacquiao’s performance –
and Clottey’s own non-performance – helped change his mind on that
topic.
“He has speed. This is the first time where I believe I
lost a fight. He was waiting for me to open to counter me. I realized
that I couldn’t land my power punches on him, because he was so fast.”
Who
– or when - Pacquiao will next land his punches on remains a mystery.
The obvious choice is the winner of the May 1 HBO PPV event between
Floyd Mayweather and Shane Mosley, but such a decision will come after
Pacquiao runs for office in his native Philippines.
It doesn’t
mean he can’t offer his opinion on whether or not his next potential
fight will be the one the sport most often craves.
“I want the
fight, because the people want to see the fight. But it’s up to (Floyd)
if he wants to fight me. It’s not a problem for me to fight him; we’re
ready to fight at any time. But I don’t think he’s ready to fight.
Someday we’ll be ready to fight.”
The biggest and only unresolved
issue in the failed attempt to secure a fight with Mayweather came over
the handling of drug testing. Pacquiao’s side wanted whatever was
decided by the commission of the state in which the fight would take
place, while Mayweather demands Olympic style random urine and blood
samples be taken.
A Mayweather win will only mean that issue remains on the table, considering that he’s also demanding the same of Mosley.
Pacquiao refused to comment on the drug testing issue when pressed, although he was quick with a fitting alternative response.
“Mayweather should win against Mosley… but if not, maybe Mosley and I will fight.”
AN UNDERCARD HARDLY WORTH REVIEWING, BUT…
For
the second straight time in as many Top Rank collaborations with HBO
PPV, a dreadfully dull in-house undercard was offered. The lack of
intriguing action couldn’t have come at a worse time, lending to a 3 ½
hour televised card on the eve of Daylight Savings Time.
In a
bout that was more entertaining than it was meaningful in the grand
scheme of things, Humberto Soto offered a professional effort in his
12-round unanimous decision over former lightweight titlist David Diaz.
Soto scored knockdowns in the first and last rounds of the bout, though Diaz’ trademark warrior heart was evident throughout.
The
opening round left Diaz cut from an accidental butt, and staggered just
enough from a left hook to lose balance and touch the canvas with his
glove, resulting in the first knockdown.
Things got better for
the Chicago-based Mexican, who picked up steam as the fight went along,
while Soto’s stamina became an issue midway through the bout.
It
allowed Diaz back into the fight, but Soto gained his second wind down
the stretch when it mattered most. With the bout already well in the
bag, the former junior lightweight titlist worked hard to close the
show in the 12th and final round.
While the bout ultimately
went the distance, Diaz was once against introduced to Soto’s
susceptive power. A right hand and left hook began a flurry that
eventually caused Diaz to wobble, failing in an attempt to clinch as he
stumbled to the canvas.
The last round knockdown simply added to
the pile once the scorecards were read, with tallies of 115-111 and
117-109 all in favor of Soto.
Soto scores his sixth straight
win as he improves to 51-7-2 (32KO). The plan was to target a showdown
with undefeated Venezuelan knockout artist Edwin Valero, who is also
promoted by Top Rank. Judging by the vacant title at stake, such a
matchup is hard to fathom, at least in the foreseeable future.
What’s
even harder to predict is where Diaz, now 35-3-1 (17KO) goes from here.
The former lightweight titlist was inactive for more than a year after
his brutal knockout loss to Manny Pacquiao nearly two years ago.
He
returned to the ring last September, struggling to a majority decision
over a badly faded Jesus Chavez, then sitting out another six months
before this fight.
Former Contender semifinalist Alfonso Gomez
picked up his fourth straight win with a stoppage of former lightweight
champion Jose Luis Castillo after five rounds.
There was little
action to speak of, other than Gomez controlling the fight from the
onset and turning up the heat in the fourth round. Somewhere in between
the fifth and sixth rounds, Castillo decided he had enough, opting to
quit on his stool.
The official time was 3:00 of round five.
Gomez
improves 22-4-2 (11KO) with the victory, having not lost since his
fifth round beatdown at the hands of then-unbeatean two-division
titlist Miguel Cotto in April 2008.
Swinging in the other
direction, retirement appears to be the only sensible option for
Castillo, who falls to 60-10-1 (52KO) with the loss.
The former
lightweight king is best remembered for his unforgettable first fight
with Diego “Chico” Corrales, but his career has declined shortly after
the rematch later in the year. He rode a modest five-fight win streak
against non-descript competition, but in this fight looked more like
the shot version that was convincingly beaten by Sebastian Lujan 20
months ago.
Fringe middleweight contender John Duddy opened the
telecast with a split decision win over Michael Medina. Scores were
96-93 (twice) for Duddy, and 96-93 for Medina.
The announcement
was met with a chorus of boos from the crowd, though hard to tell if it
was over the decision, or the fact that the fight was as disinteresting
as it was meaningless.
The show was presented by Top Rank Inc.
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