This is crazy.

Taking a page from Oscar De la Hoya's "bad oysters" excuse... Joshua Clottey has blamed his lack-luster performance against Manny Pacquiao on none other than... diarrhea from a stew concoction he consumed after the weigh-in and prior to his bout on Saturday night.

Unbelievable... seriously my friends... it blows my mind as to how many excuses this fucking guy can come up with.

He states:

"When I eat after the weigh-in, I was running (shitting water), I went to the toilet up until midnight 4 times. In the morning I was running (shitting more stew) like three times. When I went to the dressing room like, I went another three times. When I'm sitting there waiting to go to the ring... I went more and more."

"I couldn't do nothing because my body is weak and I'm trying to push myself."

Amazing... simply amazing.

It's quite amusing that a fighter who obviously dehydrates himself to make the welterweight limit blames his case of the "shits" on some Banku and Okro stew.

One of the side effects of severe dehydration is diarrhea for those of you that don't know.

It's even more pronounced when a person's digestive system has to take an extended break leading up to a weigh-in not only to be infused with this type of food.

I'm going to make me some Okro stew this week and if it doesn't give me a case of the shits, I'm calling Clottey's excuse as bullshit.

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