Why is Berto getting so much heat for holding?

[HattonTheHammer]

partly how much he did it, partly how he ended the fight by rushing in to hold Angulo in a loving manner, but its mostly cause it seemed so incredibly pointless, Urango is not a good fighter and Berto could have opened up on him (without taking silly risks) but instead he did just enough to get by. Urango is not Margarito, not Calzaghe, etc.

I'm trying to think of a fight where Floyd held that much and I can't do it. Maybe I'm just forgetting something.

no offence ouma but even you have to agree result comes before performance!

If berto was from anywhere else in the world and fighting his 20th(whatever it is) fight he`d be up against another bum from across the road.

In the US however you toss your guys in the deep end and hope the swim rather than sink which is why you produce the most champs.

[OumaFan]

Sure but you have to be at least moderately entertaining if you want to become a star, people might say Floyd's boring but look at some of his fights with relatively lesser guys at his earlier weights, he was pretty exciting.

And Urango was a step down, there to be taken for Berto.

And Berto has twenty five fights, and he's been spotlighted since around his tenth fight or so, he's not a baby. If anything a majority of fighters of his stature are usually farther along than him.

Anyway I'm not a fan of Berto but he's not a puss (not that really any fighters are), he had an exciting fight last time out where he maybe fought too much, maybe he just overcompensated this time.