[JLUVBABY]

theres a rumor in the youtube boxing circle and not sure i believe it based on the turnout for the fight alone but a rumor saying the 700,000 ppv buys for this fight is fluff and the number is closer to 450,000... i dont co-sign just sharing a rumor thats floating around on youtube...

[salvador]

Clottey is not the first guy I've seen who was happy just to 'go the distance' with the champ.

Bonecrusher Smith and Tony Tucker during Tyson's reign pop in to mind as guys who were happy to go the 12 rather than swing and win. I don't think these fights were fixed. In fact if you were to sit down and go through it there are probably hundreds of examples of guys who have taken this approach during title fights.

I'm not disputing that Clottey was chosen for a reason. That reason being that he is simply not good enough to beat Pac. But as for actually fixing a fight no I think that's reaching somewhat.

And please don't bring up Corrales as an example of one of his good wins. Diego was a dead man walking by that stage, fighting in a weight class he had no business being in. That's a really bad example of a quality Clottey win.

Corrales and Judah were both mentioned because they were both smaller guys like Pac, and Clottey was far more offensive minded in those fights - and I won't apologize for the comparison. Clottey was much bigger than Pac and, as was the case with Judah and Corrales, Clottey's punches made a big impact and Clottey knew it.

My point from the beginning is that I'd really like to know how much Clottey was paid. I remember it being a big deal for Marg that Arum was going to pay him $1.2MM for the Cotto fight (his first $1MM+ paycheck) and he took more for fighting Williams. Given that Arum and Pac probably made north of $20MM from the fight, it would be interesting to know if, after Clottey had lost to Cotto and Marg, he was being paid like he would have been paid if he'd been managed by a promoter other than Arum (in which case there's very little chance he would have made north of a million because the risk would have been so great and the opportunity to fight on such a big stage and revive his career would have been implicit in the offer) or if he got paid $2MM+ as if he was part of the Arum family of fighters.