Re: Maidana....one of the dirtiest fighters I've seen awhile
Originally Posted by
miles
I disagree. I thought the point deduction was absurd. There was not even a warning, just a straight up deduction. It was a poor deduction much like the one made against Hatton against Mayweather. Out of the blue and not even a warning or a chance.
To be fair to Maidana he was being held continually and was needing to punch with one arm as the other was being twisted by Khan. Maidana would even try to punch with the one arm free. He wanted to fight and was anxious to get his punches off. Cortez was indecisive. Sometimes he would break the clinch and other times he would let it continue. This sometimes meant that Maidana was getting off punches when Cortez was close and that's fair enough. If you have a referee who isn't consistent, then you are occasionally going to have a messy situation.
It's interesting how you want to put all the blame on Maidana, but one fighter spent a lot of the fight engaging in constant use of the clinch. Now it was okay for Khan to do that, but not okay for Maidana to engage in the use of the elbow just once?
Sure, Maidana is scrappy, but likewise nobody wants to see constant holding either.
BINGO !
If anything Khan shoulda lost a point for all the nonsense holding. Plus Cortez ROYALLY SCREWED Maidana over with all the damn seperating the fighters and not letting Maidana work.
As far as touching gloves, its a FIGHT. If Maidana doesn't wanna touch gloves he doesn't have to. I did not like his cheap shot attempt in the first round but after that what kind of a dumbass would continue trying to touch gloves with the crazy bastard Only a moron.
"You knocked him down...now how bout you try knockin me down ?"
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