Joshua Clottey Officially Vacates IBF Title For Cotto Fight

[el malo]

Exactly!..

but damn you're going too?!...I'm gettin my tix this weekend..my sister is lagging on whether she's goin or not..so her deadline is Sat or I'm goin SOLO!..lol

We need to make a thread about who's all goin to the Cotto-Clottey fight from here...we can prolly get together before the fight and have a few drinks and ****!..

yeah im going solo unless i get my sis or her boyfriend to go and we get new tickets. i'll sell the ticket i got if i can its only a 50 dollar ticket, i got it just in case. lyeah we should make a thread and all meet up!

[el malo]

When is Cotto going to fight a champion for a change?

if clottey would've handled his business it would of been june 13th! oh well if cotto wins im sure it will be cotto vs ssm or pacman at the end of the year!!

[Boxer1590]

I was looking forward to someone unifying the titles but these damn mandatories ruin things once again. Now some bum who doesn't deserve the title is going to end up with it.

[RightCross94]

who cares, its not like the fight is any less interesting because clottey doesnt have some ****ty corrupt paper belt around his waist

[MaFu MoFo]

idk about that, i thought you got an "interim" bout before you HAD to fight a mandatory.....

clottey ****ed cotto, not the IBF. clottey was supposed to fight this dude by february, like 6 months after his last fight. had clottey taken care of business, we wouldn't be having this conversation. not 1 to take up for sanctioning bodies, EVER, but this one is on clottey.

according to him on facebook...

Joshua Clottey I have loss my IBF belt because COTTO keep too long before he SIGN his part of the FIGHT contract but anyway I will take his BELT away from HIM on june 13th at MSG

Clottey ****ed up, period. He should had fighted on February. He should make no excuses on Facebook other than: "Sorry, I ****ed up, my bad"

[MafiosA]

il never understand the sanctions .. their job is 2 crown a devision champion... but all they do is prevent it.. shame on the ibf!!!

[Jean28]

Its not fair for Cotto OR Clottey. If Cotto wins, he only get a W, and Clottey would be left without anything.

[Scott9945]

If we are being realistic then we would know that by the time they fight nobody will give a **** what title they are fighting for. For the fighters it's all about status and making millions.

[Jean28]

If we are being realistic then we would know that by the time they fight nobody will give a **** what title they are fighting for. For the fighters it's all about status and making millions.

True that. But having multiple championships makes their resumes look better. Resumes are important for the status.

[MJ406]

yeah bummer about the fight not being a unification

but hey at least its still happening.

**you'd think thought that since Cotto had a tune up fight in February, why wouldn't Arum allow the same for Clottey (who has yet to fight this year)

because Clottey could have gotten that mandatory out of the way, while hyping up his fight vs Cotto at the same time.

o well too late now.

but glad the fight is still happening.