May 3, 2023

“He had a good defense, but defense isn’t enough to win a fight,” Roach said. The Event was a one man show — thanks to Joshua’s Clottey’s ugly performance. Although his turtle shell defense was good, it was only too good for his own good. Impenetrable as it was that only about 20% of Manny Pacquiao’s shots got through, nothing was also fired back. Clottey displayed his defensive mastery to the extreme. He was all defense, and thoroughly forgot that boxing also required a lot of punching in order to win.