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Clinton Woods‘ performance last Saturday on Showtime against Antonio Tarver was lethargic, disappointing, and downright hard to watch. Trust me. Don’t go searching on youtube for highlights. There were none. On the line in Tampa for Woods were two title belts and a possible big money date in England with Joe Calzaghe. But he didn’t show up. This viewer felt that the Sheffield native might have left his energies in Ybor City where we’d bet he looked good on the dance floor.

In today’s Sheffield Star Woods’ promoter counters with another theory: Clinton Woods was poisoned! Did someone slip something into his grouper sandwich? We may know soon because his promoter has an adamant solution “I want some blood tests to see if there was a reason we don’t know about as to why he was so flat and his legs so heavy.”

Clearly, the promoter had been using his keen observational skills a la fellow Sheffielder Jarvis Cocker: “There were a couple of people in our hotel who had food poisoning.” Was it Woods’ royal food taster? Was it the guys hanging out with Tarver’s friends? Was it northerners on a late winter golfing trip? Was it George Steinbrenner? He doesn’t elaborate.

The whole poisoning excuse seems a little preposterous to us. Clinton just wasn’t as good as Tarver that Saturday. One thing we do know is that his bout had a quick poisoning effect on my wife and I: we watched, became drowsy and disoriented, wished that our hotel room had HBO, and then fell into a immediate and disturbing sleep.

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