by Nick Peet
WITH so much going on right on the doorstep right now it would be easy to miss the fact the current, worldly accepted, pound-for-pound number one returns to arms tonight.
Manny Pacquiao takes on Joshua Clottey in front of around 100,000 fans in Dallas, Texas but I – like may others – will feel short changed regardless of how long the brave Ghanaian lasts.
All I will be thinking in the small hours of this morning will be, ‘What if?’
What if Pacquiao had committed to fight Floyd Mayweather Jnr ahead of chasing the dollars here. What if we’d be sitting down to the biggest fight of this generation tonight rather than waiting for Pacquiao to devour yet another ‘game’ opponent in spectacular but predictable fashion.
Reports of Clottey looking poor on the pads during his public workout earlier this week certainly don’t old well for the WBO welterweight title challenger, especially as Pacman’s hand speed was reportedly “better than ever”.
If Clottey survives the distance in the small hours of tomorrow then he’ll have done his people proud, but I don’t envisage this one going past eight rounds.
Come on Manny, it’s Mayweather we want to see you test yourself against. Surely, until you face ‘The Man’ you’ll never truly be the world number one.
Source: liverpoolecho.co.uk
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