Floyd on Maidana rematch

[Beanz]

His elbows are one of his biggest weapons against inside fighters who crowd him. Ricky Hatton found that out as well.

It's very crafty how he uses them. He always knows where the referee is and he'll use whichever arm is on the ref's blind side and use the arm that the ref can see to hide it.

Commonly known as cheating, fouling, not being quite good enough to get through a fight without using it.

[Beanflicker]

Commonly known as cheating, fouling, not being quite good enough to get through a fight without using it.

These guys aren't boy scouts in there. In Jake Lamotta's book, he alluded to the fact that SRR and a lot of the other slicksters he fought did the same shit, only they would use their forearms and elbows as weapons to catch a guy coming in with. He also admitted that it was common practice back in the day to throw a hook in such a fashion that if the punch missed, the follow-through forearm or elbow wouldn't. When you have a sport where the two main objectives are to hurt a guy as much as you can and to stop the other guy from hurting you as much as he can, guys are going to resort to shady tactics every now and then.

In Floyd's defence, I can't remember him ever throwing an elbow or using it to create concussive impact (like a head butt, rabbit punch or low blow would), just to create discomfort to create space.

A lot of people rag on Klitschko for holding, saying stuff like "ahhh jab and grab, he's a bum, if he wasn't allowed to hold he'd get KO'd every time, ect". Well, Ali made a career out of doing the same shit and he's considered the greatest of all time.