Smart fighters( such as Ali, mostly after his comeback) would hold in between punching and use it momentarily simply to negate the other fighter from working on the inside.. With Hatton it's completely different.. You just said yourself that hugging is a beneficial tool to pressure fighters, well, sure, but Ali wasn't a pressure fighter, was he? Hatton's supposed to be at his BEST on the inside.. If Hatton were far better at fighting from the outside then sure his clinching would help him when Urango got inside... But what the hell is the point of working inside, then just holding on if that's where you can do your best offensive work? With Hatton on saturday, he wasn't even punching in the last 4 rounds.. His holding was not a strategy to allow him to get his punches off and move in and out, his SOLE intention, was to hold on and last the rounds. Not win them. It's black and white the way Ali would use clinching and the way hatton did on saturday.