IT wasn’t pound-for-pound king Manny Pacquiao’s, but his challenger Joshua Clottey’s fault that their super fight last Sunday at the $1.2 billion Cowboys Stadium in Dallas, Texas tuned out into a dull bout, because the 33-year-old Ghanaian barely threw any punches. However, self-proclaimed best fighter in the world Floyd Mayweather Jr. begged to differ.
“I think Pacquiao gave the fans a boring fight, he was punching his arms for all 12 rounds,” Maywather Jr., who criticized Pacquiao’s last fight for lack of action, said in a report posted at cagereport.net.
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“At least when you watch Floyd Mayweather you know you’ll be seeing non-stop action for 30 minutes straight and that’s what you’ll see on May 1st,” he added.
Defense
The 31-year-old Pacquiao tried his best to lure Clottey into opening, and trade punches with him, but the former International Boxing Federation welterweight champion had his gloves glued to his head.
“Personally, I think Pacquiao got exposed in that fight for being one-dimensional. You can have all (the) offense ability in the world, but with no defense you’re not going to last long against a good counter-puncher such as myself. Look at the way Clottey was getting through, each time he threw something, it landed. Then at the end Pacquiao’s was all busted up, when’s the last time you’ve seen my face all messed up like that? That’s the difference between an amateur and a true pound for pound boxer.”
Next foe
As early as now, Pacquiao, who will be returning to the Philippines to campaign for his bid for congress at the Sarangani Province, wants the 32-year-old Mayweather Jr. as his next foe.
However, Mayweather Jr. must first defeat World Boxing Association welterweight king Shane Mosley to earn a crack at the best boxer in the world.
Pacquiao was supposed to face Mayweather Jr. instead of Clottey, but the negotiations of both camps fell through after a misunderstanding in the pre-fight drug testing.
Source: sunstar.com.ph
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