Photo courtesy of Daily Mail

Noted Jeff Powell of the Daily Mail

The perceived wisdom has been that Mayweather’s size and defensive skills would make him impregnable against any smaller fighter, no matter how gifted. That theory was thrown into question here as Pacquaio won almost every round against Joshua Clottey, an iron-man of a former champion who weighed two divisions heavier than himself by the time they entered the ring and who boxed behind a defensive wall of arms and gloves.

[ad#Google Adsense - 250x250 box]Clottey excused his negative tactics by saying: ‘He is so fast. Maybe too fast even for Mayweather. My only chance was to land the big counter punch.’

Then, in reference to three previous defeats on his long record, he admitted: ‘This is the only fight I fight I think I really lost.’

By a considerable distance, as it happens. One judge awarded Pacquaio a 12-round shut-out. The other two, like most of us at ringside, gave Clottey just the third round in a 119-109 thrashing.

Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/othersports/article-1257903/Manny-Pacquiao-raises-bar-The-Pacman-test-reluctant-Floyd-Mayweather-Jr-crushing-Joshua-Clottey.html#ixzz0iDeopEuU

Note: My stuff is fiction. My quote of Mr Powell is real.

Manny Pacquiao shuts out Joshua Clottey in WBO welter defence

By Gareth A Davies Boxing and MMA Last updated: March 14th, 2010

So Manny Pacquiao is human after all. Or at least he was not able to stop Ghanaian Joshua Clottey in front of 50,994 spectators, who filed into the Dallas Cowboys Stadium to enjoy the spectacle of his defence of the WBO welterweight title.

This was a shutout victory for Pacquiao in front of the third highest number of fans ever to attend a fight in the United States. It was a shutout from first to last. Clottey, tough man than he is, simply did not throw enough punches. You cannot win a fight, if you do not fight.

Pacquiao  won 120-108, 119-109 and 119-109 on the judges’ cards. Pacquiao said: “It was not an easy fight, but I can’t believe it. I intended to start with a lot of jabs. I know he was waiting to counter punch me.”

Clottey said: “He has speed, but at the same time, I lost the fight. He is fast, he tried to open  me, but I was taking my time, But I lost this fight…”

read more here

The gentlemen shook hand after the final weigh in. No trash talking, to animosity simply civil. Compare this to the recent Mayweather Mosley face off.

Pacquiao Clottey gentlemen faceoff

Pacquiao and Clottey meet on the star

03/12/2010

By TIM DAHLBERG  / Associated Press

The phenomenon that is Manny Pacquiao grew with a series of wins against some of the biggest names around. Now he has a fight to win against a guy who has nothing to lose.

It wasn’t supposed to be that way, but things rarely turn out as planned in boxing. Instead of fighting in one of the biggest bouts ever against Floyd Mayweather Jr., Pacquiao will have to settle for fighting in one of the biggest stadiums ever.

The opponent is Joshua Clottey, and he’s what the wise guys in Las Vegas would call a live dog. A talented boxer who has never been stopped and briefly held a piece of the welterweight title, he brings some credentials of his own into Saturday night’s 147-pound fight at Cowboy Stadium.

But while he may be fighting on the star, there’s only one star in this show. Little guys aren’t supposed to fill big stadiums, yet some 45,000 fans are expected to be on hand to watch Pacquiao up close and personal — and on the huge overhead video screens that will show every drop of sweat and blood.

“The best fighter I’ve ever seen,” said promoter Bob Arum, who includes Muhammad Ali in that group. “No one has ever punched with equal power from both hands like Manny.”

Arum has a financial interest in saying that, of course, but there are few in boxing who would argue that Pacquiao is a talent unlike any the sport has seen in recent years. He’s coming off a stoppage of Miguel Cotto that cemented his credentials at 147 pounds, and he has created a buzz about boxing the sport desperately needed.

read more here…