By Mark Vester

If Joshua Clottey is unable to secure a rematch with WBO welterweight champion Miguel Cotto, he wants to target the one man that nobody else wants to fight - Paul "The Punisher" Williams. Clottey lost a close split-decision to Cotto last Saturday in New York's Madison Square Garden. He believes that he was robbed by the judges and the ref was too scared to take a point away from Cotto.

Clottey has a lot of respect for Cotto and his skills, but he felt the ref should have taken a point away for the tackle that hurt his knee, and when Cotto sent him down from a punch to the back of the head. He said the ref was scared of the near 18,000 Cotto fans in attendance.

"He's a good fighter, I can't take that away from him. Boxing is a very tough sport. So when a fighter comes out you have to give him a congratulations whether you win, lose or draw. He's very tough so I respect him. I hit my knee on the floor [when Cotto threw him down] so I thought the referee would do something about this but the people were bullying [him]. The referee was scared to do something. And [Cotto] hit the back of my head and the referee was scared, he did nothing. He was scared of the people, that the people were going to fight him," Clottey said to BoxingScene.com's Jose Aguirre.

Last year Clottey was trying to land a fight with Paul Williams. He tells BoxingScene that he still wants that fight.

"I want to fight Paul Williams very, very much. I want to fight that guy. I want to fight Paul Williams. He's a weak welterweight. He's a weak welterweight so I want to fight him," Clottey said.

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