Is Paul Williams Ducking Joshua Clottey?
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By Scoop Malinowski
Paul ‘The Punisher’ Williams has gained a reputation as a man not many welterweight boxers want to fight. But there is one man out there who keenly would like to step in the ring and do battle with the WBO titleholder - it’s Joshua Clottey, the newly crowned IBF king.
And it’s seems a bit strange that Williams is not jumping at the chance to increase his status and bargaining power by meeting Clottey on a date HBO has supposedly set aside for Williams and his advisor Al Haymon in November.
“Every time I bring up (a Williams fight) to Arum he says, Oh he’ll never fight us,” Clottey’s manager Vinny Scolpino said on Thursday. “And that would be decent money. You’ve got Al Haymon with HBO, you’d think there’d be decent money there.”
Clottey was willing to step in and fight Williams as his first title defense opponent earlier this year but did not get the chance. Team Williams opted to select Carlos Quintana as their opponent. “We’ll fight Paul Williams but he never steps up to the plate,” says Scolpino. “We’d love to fight but he never mentions our name. That’d be a good unification bout. I don’t think they have an opponent for the November 29 HBO date.”
HBO is supposedly holding the November 29 date open for Williams and a TBD. And what better choice of a TBD is there for Williams than a unification tiff with the mighty Ghanaian Joshua Clottey? Margarito is done for the year and is reported to be decided on an early ‘09 tune-up before a June rematch with Cotto. WBC champ Andre Berto is busy with Steve Forbes next month. Oscar De La Hoya will battle Manny Pacquiao in December.
Paul Williams and Clottey would seem like a perfect match-up for HBO and boxing fans for November 29. “If he’s open, we’re open, let’s make it,” says Scolpino. “But like I said, I’ve never seen him (Williams) talk once about Joshua Clottey in any of the articles on the internet.”
The fact of the matter is this: Nobody seems to want to fight Joshua Clottey, not even Paul Williams. “Yeah, it seems that way, don’t it,” says Scolpino. “We always get close. We need a big fight for the kid.”
Where is the new IBF champion right now? “He’s in Ghana now. Waiting for something to pop. Then he’ll come home (to the Bronx).”
Team Clottey is grateful for how Bob Arum has managed to turn Joshua’s career around with the big chance and huge victory over Zab Judah. “Bob is trying to make some things happen. Top Rank did what they said they would, they got us the Judah fight. They keep trying.”
But for some odd reason, Paul Williams, Al Haymon and the rest of Team Williams seem to want nothing to do with a unification bout against Joshua “The Hitter” Clottey.Comment
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Yeah you're calling a guy that takes on 5 divisions a chicken and I guess a coward. That's pretty bad as it is. Floyd didn't tackle every single welterweight because he only really went up that high to beat zab and take a belt, then visit Oscar while he was there because he always wanted to fight Oscar. I'm not a big Floyd fan or anything, but the haters need to chill he's accomplished more than any other welterweight today (maybe not in that division, but when you take on 5 divisions you don't need to clean out the divisions you're too small for). I don't see how he is a chicken. I'm sorry that the word 'coward' offended you, maybe you didn't use those exact words, but it wouldn't take long to find you calling champs scared of other fighters. My remark about you being a great boxer was only to put you in your place with your over-opinionated ass remarks of today's great fighters. I wasn't seriously asking, I guess you're not used to sarcasm.. Sure, sometimes it gets frustrating when the big fights don't happen soon enough, but the welterweights are working out their super fights one matchup at a time, and PW just being able to jump to middle and back is impressive enough considering he's doing hell to his body. You need to chill.Comment
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Haha how did I lie and correct myself? Because you got caught up on my wordage? All you do is ***** about fighters ducking and avoiding, or everyone is a bum. You're the fat ***** on a chair demanding more action but can't do a single pullup. Don't talk **** on a forum all day. Whiney little bitches like yourself are what's really killing boxing. Not poor matchups and a lacking of great champions, but unbelievable standards that can never be met to match up to the 'glory days' of boxing when things weren't really thatmuch more exciting (minus most of the heavyweights). If Paul fights Clottey next, he'll just have only ''ducked'' Berto or Collazo because those fights were briefly mentioned as well. I'm done bothering with someone who fails to look for a medium in an argument, but simply looks to ***** more till he considers himself the winner.Comment
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dont get emotional like a girl, i should be banned, i am a disgrace but you sound like a girl in a nervous breakdown, green k to you, respond back, we'll discuss for 12 hours cause you sound like a whiney girl, respond back cause i gave you green, for many hous well talk, LOL,dont go through a nervous breakdown, i like these threads
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Haha how did I lie and correct myself? Because you got caught up on my wordage? All you do is ***** about fighters ducking and avoiding, or everyone is a bum. You're the fat ***** on a chair demanding more action but can't do a single pullup. Don't talk **** on a forum all day. Whiney little bitches like yourself are what's really killing boxing. Not poor matchups and a lacking of great champions, but unbelievable standards that can never be met to match up to the 'glory days' of boxing when things weren't really thatmuch more exciting (minus most of the heavyweights). If Paul fights Clottey next, he'll just have only ''ducked'' Berto or Collazo because those fights were briefly mentioned as well. I'm done bothering with someone who fails to look for a medium in an argument, but simply looks to ***** more till he considers himself the winner.Comment
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why arent the whiney little floyd lovers whining, please whine you hoes, green k for all yoou whiners, just ask and whine you whiney floyd fans, muahhhhh, muahhhhhh, LOLComment
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You're willing to throw away self respect in hopes anybody will talk to you. Yet you talk about emotional and girls all the time. Look in the mirror.Comment
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quintana has also beaten williams for about 12 out of 12 rounds to this weak chinned bum, williams is afraid it might happen again in the trilogy, i want to see margs vs williams, margs vs cotto II, margs vs mosley, margs vs santos III, margs vs de la hoya, margs vs mayweather but what the ****, they all got to wait in line so i also want to see williams vs quintana cause quintana deserves his trilogy because how they embarassed each other in their perspective victories, quintana deserves it wheteher you and i want to see it or not,
Floyd licked my hairy nutsack when i was asleep cause hes gay, **** floyd the cowardComment
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