Comments Thread For: Manny Pacquiao Puts on a Masterful Performance in Texas

[RR_1988]

Pac by 9th round KO against Floyd? funny! This conversation is over. Good night!

Awwww did I offend you. LOL u kind of sounded like a girl there bro with that ""This conversation is over. Good night!" quote lol. Its the truth. Shoulder roll is garbage compared to the double guard. Its truely the best defense for Pacs straight left to land the whole fight.

[xcaret v3]

"into the ebony body of Clottey"... why is this racist biased ronnie still writing articles for this site?

[amayseng]

Forbes was at the very least competitive in certain moments against ODLH, at no point was Clottey even close to competitive. That is what it comes down to now, instead of giving Pac credit for completely winning each round against a man no one has ever dominated before, it's now sunken to "he had swollen eyes" after the fight.

Clottey is physically bigger than Pac, so if he lands solidly swollen eyes is an expectation, at no point was Clottey even in the same vicinity as being close to "competitive".

you missed my point ****ing entirely!!!
instead of assuming what you have, instead let me explain to you.
i have heard roache numerous times this past year saying he wants pac to retire after 2010. i took the observation he made against odlh and applied it here.
also you have roache who has punch induced parkinsons therefore allowing myself to strongly believe he will be looking out for pacs health and future moreso than a normal trainer without that diesease.

having ****ing said that, from what i hear pac fought flawlessly...cong**** pac

and for you, dont reply to post like a douchebag anymore

[AzteK Warrior]

Pacman is a freak!! Run Gayweather R U N !!!!!!!!

[ALG United]

Well...I don't know how I feel about last night's fight. If you follow boxing, then you know this is exactly how the fight would play out - Pac throwing like crazy and Clottey blocking like crazy. Pac fights going forward and Clottey fights out of a shell. They have two completely contrasting styles. Too be honest, I was expecting Pacquiao to knock the bigger Clottey out for two reasons. The first is because of the sheer volume of punches Pac puts out to overwhelm his opponents and secondly because although Clottey is a defensive fighter, he IS NOT a counter puncher. So, as some have said, I believe this fight was tailor made for Pac. If you look at the compubox stats, the proof is in the numbers.

I will tell you what though...I'm a little perplexed at Pac walking out of the fight with two shiners. I ask myself, "If Clottey's output was so low, if he truly was so ineffective, then how in the world did Manny's face end up like that?" and conversely, "If Manny put on such a masterful performance, then why doesn't Clottey's face show it? Why wasn't he wobbled? Why was his spirit not broken?"

Rather than giving me more insight into Pacquiao's greatness, this fight leaves me asking more questions than it does answers. How would Pac fare against the likes of Mosley, Alexander, or even Bradley? These guys are not only able to slip and block punches, but they hit back have great ring generalship and are just as fast as he.

A fight against any of the fighters mentioned above would prove to be among the likes of which we have not seen in a very, very, long time.

My analogy to your questions, as was already said before in this forum, clottey has a style that would make a great boxer look like just a good one or at an extent, an above average fighter. Because clottey fights out of a shell and would rather wait forever for his opponent to make a mistake or loose steam before launching his own attacks. Thus when he first tasted manny's right hook flush to his face in the 1st round, joshua didn't dare lower his guard anymore and just waited for his opportunity to come, and in this case it didn't. NOW, the black eyes on manny's face, manny has to take big risks to lure clottey into a fight for joshua to open up and make connections with his combos. Manny was literally sticking his face in front of clottey to bait him for a fight, yes he paid dearly by absorbing some of those hard rights and left uppercuts, but clottey also missed a lot of them, and in the process manny was able to connect with his combos. It's just fortunate that clottey is naturally gifted with a thicker skin and also somehow with his shell like defense was able to lessen the sting of the punches landing on him..

[BABYBOXER]

My analogy to your questions, as was already said before in this forum, clottey has a style that would make a great boxer look like just a good one or at an extent, an above average fighter. Because clottey fights out of a shell and would rather wait forever for his opponent to make a mistake or loose steam before launching his own attacks. Thus when he first tasted manny's right hook flush to his face in the 1st round, joshua didn't dare lower his guard anymore and just waited for his opportunity to come, and in this case it didn't. NOW, the black eyes on manny's face, manny has to take big risks to lure clottey into a fight for joshua to open up and make connections with his combos. Manny was literally sticking his face in front of clottey to bait him for a fight, yes he paid dearly by absorbing some of those hard rights and left uppercuts, but clottey also missed a lot of them, and in the process manny was able to connect with his combos. It's just fortunate that clottey is naturally gifted with a thicker skin and also somehow with his shell like defense was able to lessen the sting of the punches landing on him..

nice analogy

[Laborer]

any fighter can do this if the other won't throw punches.this whole night was garbage exept for texas stadium.the undercard was garbage manny looked like a ameteur fighter just starting off his career and clottey just stole money.no way pac beats mayweather.he better hope mosley wins.

judging from Pac's last fight againgst clottey, he's not gonna win against mosley, or specially PBF. No ****ng way! He exposed himself as another mediocre fighter as opposed to what the media, or his nuthuggers, has led as to believe, an ATG. That performance was a million miles from an ATG fighter. Clottey only has to add 10 more punches every round and Pac will have serious trouble. but he didn't, which just reinforced the idea that the fight was fixed!

[Mr. Philadel]

Yes, Ive been saying it for the last two months. This was a fixed fight. Hear it from a very good source at vegas. So those who lost money are really morons. next boxing advice soon... nitramzaid@hotmail.com

ALOT of people are saying that.....Clottey KNOWS how to fight a southpaw but on Saturday night he looked like a rookie in there.....he fought Zab and kept his left foot on the OUTSIDE of Zab's so that everytime he fired Zab was stuck in the pocket.......he fought Manny totally different like there was no game plan....no advice from the corner but to throw punches.....not one time did his trainer say jab, step back or something different...all he said was that we losing and you have to take chances......then he threw Josh under the bus in the middle of the fight, dam.....this EVENT was not a competition.....the EVENT was the perfect name for this **** imo!!

[Whodini]

Why are you trying to make Pac look good by constantly throwing Floyd's name in the mix. Last I checked Floyd didn't fight last night so stay on the topic. You *******s talk soo much about how exciting Pac's fights are. And then last night it was just a bunch of boring fights with everyone (non filipinos) wanting their money back. So your response is well Pac/PBF would be even more boring. Naw leave Floyd out of this he has his own fight coming up. Last night was all about Pac. And he was in a boring fight period!! He made his name by knocking out old, weight drained, over the hill boxers with big names. And now he fights someone with something left in the tank and not only does he not get the ko but it's a decision and a booooring one at that. It just goes to show you without the knockouts Pac's fights aren't so exciting anymore. truth hurts

Why you crying ??

[hanzoh74]

Why are you trying to make Pac look good by constantly throwing Floyd's name in the mix. Last I checked Floyd didn't fight last night so stay on the topic. You *******s talk soo much about how exciting Pac's fights are. And then last night it was just a bunch of boring fights with everyone (non filipinos) wanting their money back. So your response is well Pac/PBF would be even more boring. Naw leave Floyd out of this he has his own fight coming up. Last night was all about Pac. And he was in a boring fight period!! He made his name by knocking out old, weight drained, over the hill boxers with big names. And now he fights someone with something left in the tank and not only does he not get the ko but it's a decision and a booooring one at that. It just goes to show you without the knockouts Pac's fights aren't so exciting anymore. truth hurts

u got the nerve calling Pacs fights boring whereas ur hero has been doing this for a long time that boxing is almost dying at the peak of his p4p form....thank god for manny ....truth hurts isnt it??