Manny Pacquiao with challenger Joshua Clottey. Photo courtesy of Telegraph UK
Pound for pound king and international boxing star Manny Pacquiao won his match against Ghana native Joshua Clottey in the Cowboys Stadium in Arlington, Texas. In perhaps his biggest crowd yet in his 17 years of boxing career, Manny “Pacman” Pacquiao dominated the boxing match against a strangely passive Joshua Clottey on a unanimous decision.
With his victory over Clottey, Pacquiao retained his welterweight title.
It can be recalled that Pacquiao was supposed to fight Floyd Mayweather, Jr. but the fight was called off due to some disagreements on blood testing.
Unlike Pacquiao’s previous matches, this one is less intense, perhaps attributable to Clottey. ESPN Dallas observed that this fight lacks the competitive element present in previous Clottey fights:
It wasn’t as flashy as his knockout of Ricky Hatton or as savage as the beating he gave Oscar De La Hoya, but there was no doubt Pacquiao was in command the entire way against a fighter who kept his gloves up high in front of his face and chose to engage him only in spurts. Clottey’s strategy worked to keep him upright, but he was never competitive in the biggest fight of his career.
