Joshua Clottey was fighting two battles on Saturday: one with Manny Pacquiao and one with a pre-fight meal.
According to Joy News, Clottey claims indigestion caused by Banku and Okro stew -- a Ghanaian dish -- is partly to blame for his loss to Pacquiao.
"When I ate after the weighing I was ‘running,'" Clottey told the Web site. "The midnight I went to toilet almost like four times. In the morning, I went to toilet almost like three times. When we went to the dressing room, I went to toilet like three times."
Pacquaio retained his WBO welterweight title in a unanimous-decision victory over Clottey in Saturday night's matchup in Dallas. Clottey claims stomach aches and diarrhea before the bout weakened him during the fight.
Clottey has issued an apology to Ghanaians for the loss, and he has vowed to make a comeback.
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clottey is a bitch and this is nothing more than damage control. what a pussy and a dum pussy at that. Oo what can i say that everu1 wil believe? yeah i had to shit my pants. ok guy tell me another 1.
I thought there was something wrong before he started dancing- i dont think he wanted to dance to the ring this time but when he started he got into it
Lets assume he did have "a running stomach" or whatever, this would actually explain alot. He covered up, didn't want to take chances and risk getting KO'd cause Running Stomach plus Getting KO'd could equal public self defication. If you read some Freud fear of deficating on oneself in public really screws with some peoples heads.
I mean the only thing worse than getting KO'd in a few rounds, is getting KO'd and shitting yourself in a few rounds.
Thats a career stopper.
yeah he looked like he had the runs when he was dancing to the ring. what a scumbag, losing a lot of respect for clottey. kind of reminds me of the tin man. no heart.
It wasn't the stew, it was most likely his nerves being the biggest fight of his career and being Pacquiao on top of that. He was probably so nervous he was literally shitting bricks.
Its possible, I remember having to play basketball in highschool with an upset stomach, and I played one of the worst games of my life.
THat's all I'm saying... people are so quick to dismiss someones reason for maybe a poor performance. Not saying that's WHY he lost... but people make it out to be that it COULDN'T BE he had an upset stomach like that. And that it wouldn't effect you.
Does anyone here think that it's actually IMPOSSIBLE to have a bad upset stomach?
How would you perform if you had diahrreah?
I mean it IS funny... but seriously... is it impossible?
having diahrreah will dehydrate you b/c you lose alot of fluids. Not to mention he was already dehydrated for the weigh in. That means he never properly rehydrated for the fight. Most people with the flying shits get real weak after it. 1 they don't wanna eat b/c they will be shitting more 2 you can't rest at all with ur stomach constantly rumbling & running to the bathroom 3 it usually takes about 24 hours to shake a stomach virus.
with that being said he should have some kind of doctor to iv him to put the right nutreints back in his body & somebody to feed him right. But who knows? That shit is funny
Does anyone here think that it's actually IMPOSSIBLE to have a bad upset stomach?
How would you perform if you had diahrreah?
I mean it IS funny... but seriously... is it impossible?
I believe he had an upset stomach. You could tell he was about to shit himself from the first round. I just think it had more to do with Pac throwing 100+ punches a round than it did with his pre-fight meal.
Very possible , though they do prepare for this one day for nearly a couple months. there diet should be perfect they really should have no reason for getting an upset stomach, they are professionals, they have done this many times before. But even if he did have a upset stomach that gives more reason to go after Manny and try to hurt him. You gonna throw away the opportunity of a lifetime because you have an upset stomach? If he wasn't feeling good than his strategy should not have been to go 12 with Manny, it should have been give him a beating or take a beating. His performance disgusted me, he is a big WW and he covered up from a small WW all night.
Easier said than done... yeah, just go after him... we've seen how that great plan has turned out for others.
Does anyone here think that it's actually IMPOSSIBLE to have a bad upset stomach?
How would you perform if you had diahrreah?
I mean it IS funny... but seriously... is it impossible?
Very possible , though they do prepare for this one day for nearly a couple months. there diet should be perfect they really should have no reason for getting an upset stomach, they are professionals, they have done this many times before. But even if he did have a upset stomach that gives more reason to go after Manny and try to hurt him. You gonna throw away the opportunity of a lifetime because you have an upset stomach? If he wasn't feeling good than his strategy should not have been to go 12 with Manny, it should have been give him a beating or take a beating. His performance disgusted me, he is a big WW and he covered up from a small WW all night.