Joshua Clottey Officially Vacates IBF Title For Cotto Fight

[dans]

This is fun. Next year whoever wins Cotto-Clottey fights the IBF champion, who vacates the title before the fight.

[boxing2106]

this is absurd they cheated cotto last year now this **** agian this year... but i think its cuz of clottey's dumbass not fighting his mandatories !!!! so **** you clittey !

[roujinziro]

Well let's see, Clottey fights some undeserving mandatory (Hlatswayo got a gift in his fight with Delvin Rodriguez) or he takes probably his biggest payday so far and fights Cotto. I think his decision to drop his trinket is a no brainer.

[FeFist]

Imagine how big a Cotto vs Floyd fight would be if it was to unify the Welterweight titles. The hype would be imense and I'm pretty sure I'd remember the fight as a great.

In all honesty you don't really need belts for a great fight but I won't lie and say that it doesn't add to the atmoesphere.

[FLY TY]

Well let's see, Clottey fights some undeserving mandatory (Hlatswayo got a gift in his fight with Delvin Rodriguez) or he takes probably his biggest payday so far and fights Cotto. I think his decision to drop his trinket is a no brainer.

of course.....problem is, clottey was supposed to fight this dude by february 2.... what has he been doing since judah???

its a no-brainer now, but instead of sitting on his ass for 8 months, clottey could've fought dude in february, the same time cotto fought, and this fight would've been a uni.....clottey dropped the ball dogg....

but i agree w/ everyone who says "**** it," as long as we get to see the fight anyways.....unification or not.

[dondi330]

this is absurd they cheated cotto last year now this **** agian this year... but i think its cuz of clottey's dumbass not fighting his mandatories !!!! so **** you clittey !

Its ok, most of us know the deal with belts.
"The best" aren't exactly the ones with the belts all the time.
Some of the less knowledgeable fans, fall for that crap.

[Greatwhitehope]

Absurd, hopefully whoever wins it turns out to be a decent fighter, can't hurt to have another talent in a division thats already full to the brim.

Still unification would be a hell of a lot better.

[EL ANIMAL]

What a shame! It would have had alot more meaning if it was a unification fight!

[BennyST]

I heard or Delvin before, don't remember the other guy. And what I remember about devlin he is kind of like the mora level of boxer. So, he isn't bad but far from great. He could get better.

He's pretty good. The 'other' guys that is. He's fought some good fighters and beaten some good fighters and if he has anything left he could still won a title easily.

He 'beat' Rodriguez already but the the decision was changed to a draw for whatever reason. He has also beaten Nate Campbell and his only loss is to Holt by UD. He also beat that guy who Mayweather beat, N'Dou, Baloyi and a few other good fighters.

He was a very good lightweight.

[boxasmash]

joshua clottey forced to vacate ibf title

according to him on facebook...

Joshua Clottey I have loss my IBF belt because COTTO keep too long before he SIGN his part of the FIGHT contract but anyway I will take his BELT away from HIM on june 13th at MSG