How much clinching is excessive? What is the distinction with inside fighting?

[fan johnny]

Isn't this exactly why the ref has discretion. He has to make a judgement call as to weather or not the clinching is in fact excessive holding or not.

I don't agree that excessive holding should be allowed as a tactic to recover from a blow. Boxing is not the MMA.

[Gandalf]

Isn't this exactly why the ref has discretion. He has to make a judgement call as to weather or not the clinching is in fact excessive holding or not.

I don't agree that excessive holding should be allowed as a tactic to recover from a blow. Boxing is not the MMA.

Exactly, if you are hurt and you haven't learned to smart it out, then you deserve to be knocked out or have points taken when you clinch.

There is never an excuse to spoil a fight.

[Slim the BoxingManiac]

When I watched the Maidana vs. Alexander fight, I was so pissed off that I had to make a video about it.



I think that's the video, although I'm not sure.

Linked the wrong video.

This is the video I made immediately after the Alexander-Maidana fight.

[Althugz]

When I watched the Maidana vs. Alexander fight, I was so pissed off that I had to make a video about it.



I think that's the video, although I'm not sure.

Linked the wrong video.

This is the video I made immediately after the Alexander-Maidana fight.

Tell me you didn't just call me a "complete tool" and to "kill yourself faggot" in that other thread after posting these two abominations you call "videos"?? I've seen it all now..

Anyway, clinching is ugly, horrible and exposes a fighters lack of defensive skill. I thought Ricky Hatton got far too much credit for his hit and hold style. I felt so sorry for Kostya in Manchester when Ricky clinched him and put his head right under his chin..Kostya looked at that fat cunt Dave Paris like "Wtf?? You can get him off me whenever you feel like it?"

Just makes a fight boring.

[Spicoli]

I now miss Charlie Z.....and Thunder for that matter

[Slim the BoxingManiac]

When I watched the Maidana vs. Alexander fight, I was so pissed off that I had to make a video about it.



I think that's the video, although I'm not sure.

Linked the wrong video.

This is the video I made immediately after the Alexander-Maidana fight.

Tell me you didn't just call me a "complete tool" and to "kill yourself faggot" in that other thread after posting these two abominations you call "videos"?? I've seen it all now..

Anyway, clinching is ugly, horrible and exposes a fighters lack of defensive skill. I thought Ricky Hatton got far too much credit for his hit and hold style. I felt so sorry for Kostya in Manchester when Ricky clinched him and put his head right under his chin..Kostya looked at that fat cunt Dave Paris like "Wtf?? You can get him off me whenever you feel like it?"

Just makes a fight boring.

And what the fuck have you been posting?

[Andre]

Once you know a fighter is a spoiler like that you should be able to change tactics a bit too and force them to think otherwise. Seems like fighters should be taught how to drop gravity and twist out of a hug attack as they go, Switch and punch up the gap right as they go to grapple, Or attack their lead arm a millisecond before the head, bang bang disrupt their timing, even step back for room and over hand bombs right as they try to hold.
They going to rethinking it if you catch them hard enough.

Fuck continual grabbers anyway theres always an accidental knee to the nuts as you walk forwards .. Flip em upside down land em on the their head go down with them land on the fukker the ref will be even more confused if he is that stupid already.

[erics44]

whats a twot?

we dont have those in england

[Majesty]

I think there's a difference between two boxers of around the same size and height clinching while still more or less trying to fight and when the clinches happen after an attack is launched, and a 6 ft 7 fighter constantly clinching a 6 ft 2 guy continually so much that it's basically their game plan.