Pacquiao vs Clottey

• Hulk Smash

  First big fight of the year and another one(a bigger fight imo) already scheduled for May.
  
  The drawing power of Pacquiao continues to be astonishing.
  When they set up the Cowboys stadium for 45,000 I thought Arum was crazy, said to myself: "boxing doesn't draw crowds that size anymore" but here we are a day before the fight and there are only a few hundred tickets left according to fightnews.
  Outside of hardcore boxing fans Clottey is a virtual unknown, this event is being sold by Pacquiao.
  When was the last time a boxing event in America drew 45,000?
  They are projecting a million+ pay per buys but I'm going to have to see that to believe it too.
  
  Should be a great fight, Clottey is no slouch.
  I thought Cotto would ruin Manny, I thought Hatton had a real chance at an upset, I thought De La Hoya would walk right through him and I thought Marquez would beat him in their rematch.
  I'm done picking against Manny Pacquiao.
  
  Pac UD 12
  
  Undercard looks ok.
  
  Humberto Soto(50-7-2) vs David Diaz(35-2-1)
  Alfonso Gomez(21-4-2) vs Jose Luis Castillo(60-9-1)
  John Duddy(28-1) vs Michael Medina(23-1-2)
  
  I have to work Sunday morning so I'll catch it on replay, the main event is the only fight I'm really interested in anyway.
• Pick6

  

  Probably the only other boxing match I will watch in my life will be Mayweather v Pacquiao. Pacquiao needs to man up and get off them PEDs.
• khujo

  Pick6 wrote: Probably the only other boxing match I will watch in my life will be Mayweather v Pacquiao. Pacquiao needs to man up and get off them PEDs.

  Other than not wanting to take the blood tests, is there anything else that makes you think he is using them?
• Hulk Smash

  It's interesting that Manny was refusing to take the tests inside of 24 days to the fight but a video popped up showing Manny being tested with 20 days before the Clottey fight.
  
  I don't believe drug testing was the real issue, never did. The fight seemed to be a done deal until Golden Boy didn't bother showing up in Dallas to meet with Jerry Jones and made Arum look like a fool. The fight was doomed from that day forward.
  
  
  
  
  Look at Pac's weights at the scales and on fight night.
  He was dehydrating big time to make 130, since he has started fighting at 147 his fight night weight has been close to the same as it was when he was making 130 the day before.
• khujo

  Hulk Smash wrote:
  Look at Pac's weights at the scales and on fight night.
  He was dehydrating big time to make 130, since he has started fighting at 147 his fight night weight has been close to the same as it was when he was making 130 the day before.

  Plus it's total BS from the people that are claiming that someone that started out as small as Manny couldn't have gotten that big naturally.
  
  Manny was 17 when he turned pro and weighed 106 pounds. Mayweather won the Golden Gloves when he was 16 and he weighed 106 pounds.
• Hulk Smash

  Manny was 27 in that first picture.
  He is 31 now and he hasn't really gotten any bigger, he is fighting bigger men(which is why I kept picking against him).
  Manny isn't hitting the scales as a welterweight and stepping in the ring as a middleweight unlike most of the other top welters.
• Non

  

  Should be a good card. I probably won't be able to see it. I got a new computer recently and don't have the set up (cough, cough) for the PPVs that I had before.
• Hulk Smash

  Attendance: 50,994
  I'll bet Lampley was smiling ear-to-ear as he announced that number.
  
  The third largest crowd for an indoor boxing match in U.S. history. Ali/Spinks II(63,315) and Whittaker/Chavez(58,891) are the only indoor fights to have drawn a bigger crowd.
  I think Mayweather/Pacquiao could more than double that crowd.
  
  Next week in Germany a larger crowd will probably show up when Eddie Chambers challenges Wladimir Klitschko.
  
  Pac did his job by dominating Clottey, hopefully Floyd doesn't have any problems with Mosley in May.
• Lovejoy1984

  

  I'm beginning to think Mayweather and Manny set this whole thing up themselves.
  
  Basically agree to fight to get everyone talking about it. Then create some drama and back out, thus making their next fights huge, all to come back around and set up the mega fight, with even more interest than before, as if that was possible. We'll see these guys fighting in the fall, and the buy rate will be huge.