Sergio Martinez Trainer Rips Into Joshua Clottey <HR style="COLOR: #ffffff" SIZE=1><!-- / icon and title --><!-- message -->Gabriel Sarmiento, trainer of WBC junior middleweight champion Sergio Martinez, has ripped into Joshua Clottey. Sarmiento became very upset when he found out Clottey turned down Martinez as an opponent for the Pavlik-Williams undercard on December 5. He would certainly understand if Clottey was willing to take the fight - and Top Rank [Clottey's promoter] took the position of turning it down. Numerous parties advised Sarmiento that Clottey had personally turned the fight down. "I can understand when a promoter doesn't want to fight. But when I hear that a fighter doesn't want to fight, then I know he is a p*ssy and a coward. He is not a warrior. He is a disgrace. Martinez is ready to fight anyone. He told me 'dont tell me who I need to fight, tell me when I have to fight,'" Sarmiento told BoxingScene.com. <!-- / message -->
Sexcapades drained Joshua Clottey before Miguel Cotto fight! <TABLE class=main_table cellSpacing=0 cellPadding=0 width=630 align=center border=0><TBODY><TR><TD vAlign=top align=left>Sexcapades drained Joshua Clottey before Miguel Cotto fight! </TD></TR><TR><TD vAlign=top align=left>Michael Marley Top Rank (Chris Farina) 9/25/2009 Some headlines just stick with you over the years. It’s hard to beat “HEADLESS BODY IN TOPLESS BAR†which emblazoned the front page of (dear alma mater) New York Post. Recently, in a Johnny Knoxville “Jackass†move in which my bike and I were KTFO’d by a moving car, the local rag could’ve run this one: “X RAYS OF MARLEY’S HEAD SHOW NOTHNG†but they didn’t. One of my favorite boxing headlines was in a British tabloid when I was in London with middleweight champ Gerald “G Man†McClellan in the days before his war against Nigel Benn, a fight which left McClellan crippled for life. McClellan was a free speaking guy and he emphasized that, while his libido was powerful, he favored boxing above all. “MCCLELLAN: I’D RATHER TONK THAN BONK.†Translated into American English from UK slang, I was told it meant that the fighter preferred fighting over having sex. Which brings me around to Joshua Clottey, whose trainer of five years duration tells me lost his June Madison Square Garden bout against upcoming Manny Pacquiao foe Miguel Cotto because he was oversexed and not overtrained. Yes, you read that correctly. Trainer Kwame Asante believes Clottey’s fight week bonking left him unable to do enough tonking to defeat the rugged Puerto Rican. And it was surprising that Clottey, like Asante a native of Ghana, did not rev up his offensive attack in the final three rounds of a close, competitive fight. Clottey explained this by saying he was fearful of getting nailed by a single KO punch by the Puerto Rican banger. (HBO commentator Manny Steward said he thought Clottey deserved the verdict but a 114-113 Clottey score was overruled by Cotto tallies of 116-111 and 115112.) (Click here to see round by round notes on that fight from Bleacher Report/BoxingWatchers.com.) Boxing oldtimers insisted on having their fighters abstain from sexual relations close to fight night because they believed prolonged sexual play robbed boxers of their leg strength and sapped them of needed energy. (Any you of nonvirigins in the Michael Marley worldwide audience may recall the satisfied feeling a man often derives from a pleasureable sex session. You’re usually not in a post-coital fighting mood. But I’m just going on ancient memory here.) Asante told me he thinks Clottey’s being shacked up with his girlfriend for a full week cracked up his chances of beating Cotto. “Joshua could have beaten Cotto and he can beat Pacquiao,†Asante said. “But Joshua wouldn’t listen to nobody, he thinks he knows it all.†In the wake of the split decision loss, Clottey went home to Africa and put Asante on verbal blast. “He paid my 10 percent,†Asante said. “But he tried to blame me for losing to Cotto. Everyone in Ghana knows Joshua by now. The people think he is a jerk, he is hated by the people. He said I didn’t give him the proper advice in the corner which is a lie.†Asante said that, the day of the fight, Clottey and the girlfriend went on a midtown Manhattan shopping excursion. The bottom line, Asante said, was that Clottey did not exactly go into the Garden ring with the proverbial eye of the tiger. There were other disruptions in the Clottey camp, the now former trainer said. “Joshua does not speak to his brother Emmanuel even though they live in the same place in The Bronx. Emmanuel, who is an ex-boxer, had to buy a ticket to see the fight. Instead, Joshua brought in a guy named Ishmael Ayer from Ghana to carry his bags around.†Asante said broke camp two days earlier and skipped needed training including sparring, to spend time with the galpal. Clottey continues to train in the old Adonis Torres Gym in the South Bronx, at 150th and Westchester, as does Asante and his remaining fighters. They do not speak to each other any longer but Asante insists he told Clottey to step it up in the final rounds. “It’s on the TV tape,†Asante said. “I told him to fight harder. He could’ve won the fight and maybe now it be would him fighting Pacquiao. “He could beat Pacquiao but he didn’t do what he needed to do to beat Cotto.†Evidently, doing what he needed to do between the sheets affected his late round surge or lack of same. (I must run this by my local sexologist soon. Her name is Randy Orgasmore.) I guess they could’ve flipped the UK headline for Clottey. Like so: “JOSH CLOTTEY: I’D RATHER BONK THAN TONK.†</TD></TR></TBODY></TABLE>
fuck clottey, for once we had the possibilty of having a good undercard, and it's not like he's gonna have a ton of opportunity
:: My thoughts exactly. This is what he gets for attempting to get a smaller man in the ring. Who the hell would move up to 154 when they are a highly ranked 147 pounder to fight a guy like Martinez?
Now I see. But that was like, 9 years ago. You think Margarito has been loading his gloves that long?
...somehow i completely missed that announcement....we'll have to start calling him Andre Bert......cos that O, is gonna go!
Rick Reeno is now reportedly that multiple sources are telling him Kendall Holt is being considered for Clottey...though HBO hasn't approved yet. http://www.boxingscene.com/?m=show&id=22502 Seriously, does anybody actually fight opponents in their own weight classes on HBO?
holt can crack at super lightweight, but he is a frail guy at that division. facing one of the physically strongest welters ever makes this a mismatch.
