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Biggest name in boxing in biggest US stadium
Mar 12th
ARLINGTON, Texas — The brand new and extremely modern Dallas Cowboys Stadium easily stands out here in Arlington.
The $1.2 billion-stadium is the home of the popular Dallas football team, but this Saturday (Sunday in Manila), it plays host to the boxing championship fight of pound-for-pound king Manny Pacquiao and Joshua Clottey from Ghana.
The stadium [...]
Manny, Clottey face off sans trash talk
Mar 12th
DALLAS – There’s just too much respect between these two fighters it may take a little while before they start hurting each other inside the ring.
They smiled at each other, shook hands and embraced like they were friends more than foes. They looked very comfortable standing beside each other, then face-to-face, against their backs. [...]
Kwaku Gyamfi: ‘Pacquiao will end up in hospital’
Mar 11th
DALLAS – He must have had a drink too many for him to say some nasty things about Manny Pacquiao.
“Manny’s going straight to the hospital after the fight,” Kwaku Gyamfi, a member of Team Clottey, told Pinoy scribes, who chanced upon him at the cozy Silver Bar of the Gaylord Texan Hotel Tuesday evening.
It [...]
Clottey: I’m gonna crush Pacquiao
Mar 11th
MANILA, Philippines – Just like Manny Pacquiao, Joshua Clottey has been in Texas for the past 2 days.
On Tuesday, the mild-mannered Clottey accidentally met Pacquiao’s coach Freddie Roach. Despite belonging to opposing camps, the 2 men warmly greeted each other and even posed for pictures.
In an interview with ABS-CBN, Clottey said he is grateful [...]
Clottey’s lethal weapons – uppercut, headbutt – Roach
Mar 11th
DALLAS – Freddie Roach said there are only two things to avoid when you’re up against Joshua Clottey.
One, the uppercut, and two, the headbutt.
“If you fall into the pocket with him, his best punch is an uppercut and his second best punch is a headbutt,” said Roach Tuesday when Manny Pacquiao held a media [...]
Clottey eyes KO to prove critics wrong
Mar 10th
DALLAS – It seems that Team Clottey knows exactly what to do.
“We’ll hit him right, knock him out, and win the fight,” said Joshua Clottey’s chief trainer for Saturday’s big fight, dubbed “The Event,” at the Cowboys Stadium which should fill close to 45,000 people on Saturday.
Lenny de Jesus, who worked as Pacquiao’s cutman [...]
Arnel Pineda to sing anthem in Pacquiao-Clottey bout
Mar 10th
Arnel Pineda, the Filipino front man of popular American rock band "Journey," will sing the Philippine national anthem in Manny “Pacman” Pacquiao’s much-awaited fight with Ghanaian Joshua "The Grand Master" Clottey on March 13 (March 14 in Manila) at the Cowboys Stadium in Dallas, Texas.
In an exclusive interview with abs-cbnNEWS.com, Pineda confirmed that he was [...]
Team Pacquiao heads to Texas for final countdown of Clottey bout
Mar 9th
The road to Arlington, Texas begins for Team Pacquiao Monday (Tuesday in Manila) as it heads there for the final countdown of the Filipino ring idol’s 12-round showdown against Joshua Clottey of Ghana.
A chartered plane that leaves Los Angeles at around 3 p.m. Monday will bring Manny Pacquiao and around 150 people to Arlington, [...]
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Pacquiao’s leg 100% ready for Clottey fight
Mar 9th
MANILA, Philippines – The world’s best pound-for-pound fighter Manny Pacquiao is all set for his clash with Ghana’s Joshua Clottey on March 13 in Texas (March 14 in Manila), with the pain in his leg gone and his condition still at superior level, a coach of the Filipino champion confirmed.
Conditioning coach Alex Ariza told Ronnie [...]
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Clottey: I throw punches that cause big damage
Mar 2nd
MANILA, Philippines – Joshua Clottey doesn’t enjoy watching tapes of his opponents on the ring. Not even Manny Pacquiao.
However, that doesn’t mean that the 33-year-old fighter from Ghana is climbing the ring on March 13 not knowing what he’s up against.
“I have never watched his tapes. I never sit down and watch him and I never sit down and talk about him,” said Clottey during a media teleconference the other day to drum up his coming showdown with Pacquiao in Arlington, Texas.
The fight is set at the $1.2 billion Cowboys Stadium, and no less than 40,000 fans are expected to brave the cold weather and see the fight. Promoter Bob Arum said there’s only around 8,000 tickets left and by fight time should be sold out.
“The only thing I think about is me and what I have to do when I come into the ring. I have been training very hard for myself to get to the ring and do my best. When I get to the ring, the fight will start and that’s what I’ll do,” he said.
Clottey is facing the biggest fight of his life and he considers this one as a rare opportunity to be with the greatest fighter in the planet. He is getting paid $1.2 million for this fight, and it’s more than what he’s earned over the last couple of years.
He said it doesn’t matter if he hadn’t seen any of Pacquiao’s fights.
“That is right. I never watch tapes of people. I don’t like watching tapes but I know how he fights. When I get to the ring I know how he is going to be,” he said of the gun-slinging fighter from the Philippines.
Pacquiao is staking his WBO welterweight crown against Clottey, and doesn’t see any reason why he’s going home empty-handed, just two months before he runs for a congressional seat in his hometown in Sarangani.
Clottey, however, said Pacquiao could be terribly wrong because he just knows what to do.
“I think you are right,” he told the media conference.
“You know, I’m not a flyweight. I am not a bantamweight. I am a welterweight and welterweights only throw punches that connect. I can throw shots which connect and land and cause damage,” he said.
“Not throw a lot of punches that he is deflecting and blocking. If you look at the last fight, I won the last round. He threw punches and I blocked them and I threw punches and they connected. I will throw punches that cause damage.”]