VANCOUVER – Joshua Clottey’s date with boxing history will be thorny as he will defy a tremendous 5-1 odds in facing the world’s most respected and best boxer pound-for-pound Manny Pacquiao for the WBO welterweight championship on March 13 at the Cowboys Stadium in Arlington, Texas. If it is not the 31-year-old Pacquiao that Clottey will be facing, we can safely conclude that it will be walk in the park for the five feet and eight inches Ghana banger nicknamed “Grand Master”.

VANCOUVER -- Now that the dream match between Manny Pacquiao and Floyd Mayweather Jr. is a thing of the past, it’s time for both Mayweather father and son -- Floyd Senior and Junior -- to apologize to Pacquiao for tarnishing the reputation not only of the best boxer in the world pound-for-pound but also the en­tire Filipino people who consider Pacquiao a national treasure.