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ARLINGTON, TEX — The end, for challenger, Joshua Clottey, may happen along the ropes or in the middle of the ring.
But either way, it will happen — before a screaming crowd of about 4,500 at The Dallas Cowboys’ Stadium on Saturday night.
Trainer Freddie Roach has envisioned it to be so.
The 32-year-old Clottey will be covering up, or, more-or-less, cowering, as he tries to employ his vaunted hands-held-high-around-his-ears, peek-a-boo defense.
But even that will no longer protect the wilting challenger from the gattling-gun blows that will be coming at him from all sides as seven-division champion, Manny Pacquiao, forces local referee, Rafael Ramos, of San Antonio, to come to the Clottey’s rescue.
“That type of defense? That’s just not going to work. Not with a good fighter,” said Roach, a 50-year-old, four-time Trainer Of The Year. “A passive defense with no counter-punching is not going to win a fight.”
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