Besides the obvious heritage connection, Joshua Clottey mirrors Bazooka Quartey in the way that he is sort of the "Mr. Tough Luck" of this generation. Whatever the case may be, both guys have gotten their share of bad luck in the boxing ring, and both were the sort of guys that you would seriously dread to fight.
Clottey: Received a questionable DQ against Carlos Baldomir, after leading on the cards.
Lost to Antonio Margarito after stopping nearly all of his punch output because of a broken hand, following a dominant 5 rounds at the beginning of the fight.
Lost a close, controversial decision to Miguel Cotto.
Is arguably avoided and ignored by several top dogs.
Quartey: Lost a close, controversial decision to Oscar Delahoya.
Lost an even CLOSER, razor thin fight to Fernando Vargas. I still have trouble scoring that one.
He was flat out robbed (imo) against Vernon Forrest.
Wanna talk about tought love? How about the way in which Quartey was initially announced the winner against Jose Luis Lopez, but then had the win taken from him and changed to a draw afterward. Talk about unlucky.
The main difference between these two may be that Ike was more popular after gaining a reputation by building his name in France. But both guys have been somewhat ignored by the biggest names. Too much risk and too little reward.. even Quartey was looked at that way by Tito, imo. In the same way that a controversial loss to Cotto makes another big fight less possible for Clottey, so the same was true for Quartey after DLH. He never got a piece of Mosley or Tito. I doubt Clottey will really get to tussle with the biggest names unless they lose and are forced to take a challenge like Cotto had to.
Clottey: Received a questionable DQ against Carlos Baldomir, after leading on the cards.
Lost to Antonio Margarito after stopping nearly all of his punch output because of a broken hand, following a dominant 5 rounds at the beginning of the fight.
Lost a close, controversial decision to Miguel Cotto.
Is arguably avoided and ignored by several top dogs.
Quartey: Lost a close, controversial decision to Oscar Delahoya.
Lost an even CLOSER, razor thin fight to Fernando Vargas. I still have trouble scoring that one.
He was flat out robbed (imo) against Vernon Forrest.
Wanna talk about tought love? How about the way in which Quartey was initially announced the winner against Jose Luis Lopez, but then had the win taken from him and changed to a draw afterward. Talk about unlucky.
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The main difference between these two may be that Ike was more popular after gaining a reputation by building his name in France. But both guys have been somewhat ignored by the biggest names. Too much risk and too little reward.. even Quartey was looked at that way by Tito, imo. In the same way that a controversial loss to Cotto makes another big fight less possible for Clottey, so the same was true for Quartey after DLH. He never got a piece of Mosley or Tito. I doubt Clottey will really get to tussle with the biggest names unless they lose and are forced to take a challenge like Cotto had to.
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