Joshua Clottey to return home without title?

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• grandpa 11 years ago

  A King without a crown. Very absurd.

  A King without a crown. Very absurd.

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• Ghfuo, change ur thinking 11 years ago

  Why didn't you get the title right after the fight? This is foolishness! Give Clottey his wba title

  Why didn't you get the title right after the fight? This is foolishness! Give Clottey his wba title

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• COMMON SENSE 11 years ago

  JOSHUA I LOVE TOO MUCH,YOUR REAL FIGHTER.

  JOSHUA I LOVE TOO MUCH,YOUR REAL FIGHTER.

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• Ghfuo, change ur thinking 11 years ago

  Massa, do the come.to gh without the title. U know how these ppl are. Make sure u enter Kotoka with that title.
  U better fight kid chocolate. He is too slow for you. He is a one way fighter, no flair

  Massa, do the come.to gh without the title. U know how these ppl are. Make sure u enter Kotoka with that title.
  U better fight kid chocolate. He is too slow for you. He is a one way fighter, no flair

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• Rabon Zee 11 years ago

  Never under-estimate the trickery of your opponents, promoters and the WBA.They will not give you a tea-cup for free unless the handle is missing.
  
  Next time be more careful. Let them bring the belt and the crown to the rin ...
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  Never under-estimate the trickery of your opponents, promoters and the WBA.They will not give you a tea-cup for free unless the handle is missing.
  
  Next time be more careful. Let them bring the belt and the crown to the ringside before the fight starts.
  
  FLASHBACK
  During negotiations for the Rumble in the Jungle in 1974, Cassius Marcellus Clay (Ali) told Don King that he wanted a bigger ring of at least 25 by 25 and he wanted a harder surface so that he could dance, bob and weave all night. Don King said " No Problem". On the night before the fight, Ali went to the stadium to check the ring's elasticity, ring size and hardness of the ring floor. To his amazement, the ring space was extra small, the floor was extremely soft and the ring was loose. Yeah. That's how it was. Don King and and the Nevada bookmakers wanted George Foreman to knock Ali out very early. That is how promoters behave. They don't want Ali to dance but rather to stay within the range of Foreman's murderous left hook! Treacherous, sneaky, spooky and callous.
  On fight night , the next day, Ali had to use Plan B to knock out George Foreman in round 8 during that eerie Zairean haunted Rumble in the Jungle.

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• Akita 11 years ago

  Was is it by accident or design that the title belt was not handed over to the winner, and why did the triner leave IMMEDIATELY after the fight? What effort did his team make to get the WBA to make this delay official? Or was ...
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  Was is it by accident or design that the title belt was not handed over to the winner, and why did the triner leave IMMEDIATELY after the fight? What effort did his team make to get the WBA to make this delay official? Or was the Ghana team timid as usual and smilingeven in the face of beign robbed?

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• Wankanoyie 11 years ago

  Let`s hope he gets his hands on the purse before that disappeasrs right infront of his own eyes!

  Let`s hope he gets his hands on the purse before that disappeasrs right infront of his own eyes!

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• Quartey 11 years ago

  concert and banku and okro swagger,jokers hahahaha Afuom, a villager with little sense. now you are broke kwashia, talking about challenging Mayweather.

  concert and banku and okro swagger,jokers hahahaha Afuom, a villager with little sense. now you are broke kwashia, talking about challenging Mayweather.

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• Bukom Shito 11 years ago

  We hope you really get a new opportunity
  
  After Pacquiao and Clottey's fight, this is what was written on one website "boxingscene" :
  
  " HBO, the giant TV cable network and a partner of boxing promoter Bob Arum, will no l ...
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  We hope you really get a new opportunity
  
  After Pacquiao and Clottey's fight, this is what was written on one website "boxingscene" :
  
  " HBO, the giant TV cable network and a partner of boxing promoter Bob Arum, will no longer tap the services of Joshua Clottey, the unimpressive challenger from Ghana who escaped a knockout loss to defending champion Manny Pacquiao in their recent title fight at the Dallas Cowboys Stadium in Arlington, Texas.
  
  Covering his face from bell to bell and seldom throwing his reputed knockout punches, Clottey lasted the distance, leaving Pacquiao with a lopsided-albeit dull-12-round unanimous decision in retaining his World Boxing Organization welterweight title before a crowd of 50,994, recorded as the biggest boxing crowd in the United States in 17 years. "He (Clottey) was satisfied with going the distance with Manny Pacquiao," said a visibly disgusted Freddie Roach, Pacquiao's American trainer. "And he did. But HBO will never use him again." "They told me that if you fight for a world title, you don't go on a survival mode. You try to win the title because it's a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity." "Clottey will never get another title shot in his life," added Roach, a four-time Trainer of the Year. Many sports fans shared Roach's anger.
  
  They felt Clottey, who has never been knocked out in more than 50 fights, was simply afraid of suffering his first KO loss against Pacquiao. "That's why Clottey came into the fight with that kind of defensive strategy," the fans explained. "At least Clottey succeeded, escaping a similar disaster that had earlier befallen David Diaz, Oscar De La Hoya, Ricky Hatton and Miguel Cotto-all of whom lost by stoppage to the Filipino boxing idol." Against the heavily favored Filipino champion, the challenger from Ghana was clearly outboxed: Pacquiao threw 1,231 punches to Clottey's 399, connecting on 232 power blows to the Ghanaian's 82. "It looked like Pacquiao was simply sparring," the aficionados noted, adding "that while Pacquiao was delivering the blows in reckless abandon, Clottey-who was expected to be the more aggressive being the challenger-was merely receiving them." "For sure, it was not Pacquiao's best fight," said another boxing diehard from my hometown in Marilao, Bulacan. But despite all these critical comments, Pacquiao, who is due to arrive on Monday from the US, would be getting a guaranteed purse of $12 million apart from the pay-per-view income and gate receipts. Clottey was assured of $1.5 million-his biggest paycheck ever as a boxer"

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• king of ameica 11 years ago

  thats roach and hbo.... showtime can tap his services and bob arum now has just 4 rotating boxers in his camp so what do we care about roach....hbo... and arum? thats a title shot he will be getting now. the wba international ...
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  thats roach and hbo.... showtime can tap his services and bob arum now has just 4 rotating boxers in his camp so what do we care about roach....hbo... and arum? thats a title shot he will be getting now. the wba international puts him in the ranking. thats the highest title after the title proper and that will put him in the first three contenders and so roach lied by saying he wont get a title shot again....other boxers do worse and they get more than enough world titles so please give joshua a break.

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• GHFUO, be serious & change ur MENtali 11 years ago

  wat did you expect roach and arum to say? they both knew about the kanwe fight between pacman and clottey. u think they want to mess up their reputation?

  wat did you expect roach and arum to say? they both knew about the kanwe fight between pacman and clottey. u think they want to mess up their reputation?

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• DIFFERENCE 11 years ago

  "Daily Guide sports learnt that promoters of the fight had told Team Clottey to give them some time regarding the release of the title".
  
  "I may return home this weekend without the title".
  
  YOU ALREADY HAVE THE TITLE.
  W ...
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  "Daily Guide sports learnt that promoters of the fight had told Team Clottey to give them some time regarding the release of the title".
  
  "I may return home this weekend without the title".
  
  YOU ALREADY HAVE THE TITLE.
  WHAT YOU DON'T HAVE IS THE SYMBOL OF THAT TITLE, THE BELT.

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• Dynamite 11 years ago

  Dear Josh,
  First of all I would like to congratulate you on giving "the man" a professional hiding though I wish you could have KO him completely by the 12th round.
  I would like you to ha ...
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  Dear Josh,
  First of all I would like to congratulate you on giving "the man" a professional hiding though I wish you could have KO him completely by the 12th round.
  I would like you to have a second fight with this dude, giving him chance to take his belt back.
  Mosley was paid 1Million to fight Mundine. So I suggest you should demand 1 Million dollars and 25% of PPV. I feel there's easy money to be made here, besides , Mundine is not in the mix in any challenging fight. Do make the offer.......cheers Josh and once again congrats.

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