Is hugging your opponent becoming accepted in boxing?

[Allucard]

So funny to watch... Margarito fans are making these threads but what they really wanted was "Margarito vs Mayweather NOW!" threads

For the recod, Paul Williams is a tall fighter and it's physically impossible for him to fight on the inside with a fighter small as Margarito. So the arms get tangled. Still he traded alot with Margarito and even after Margarito hurted him in the 11th he still came back swinging with the slugger.

[Allucard]

Margarito better develop some boxing skills cause right now i see arturo gatti written all over him.

[McNulty]

The poster is confused...Williams used the clinch like it should be done. He threw combos then tied him up real quick...then more combos. He was actually giving a edge to Margy by doing this cuz thats where Margy is most effective. See what I'm saying? Williams beat Margy @ his own game.

HE DID NOT HOLD AND HIT LIKE HATTON DOES!!!..NEVER COMPARE WILLIAMS TO HATTON. HES GOT MORE TALENT IN HIS LEFT NUT THAT HATTON WILL EVER HAVE...HOW DARE YOU.

[squealpiggy]

He didn't do exactly what Hatton does. Hatton will land a combo then get into a clinch then work to make an opening and then throw another combo. Williams would throw a flurry at an advancing Margarito then hold until the referee broke them. Six clinches a round is excessive, and it's very funny to see the comments on Williams' clinching by the same people who are Hatton's biggest detractors. Apparently it's OK to clinch if you would otherwise be disadvantaged. Whatever happened to boxing from the outside?

[BmoreBrawler]

two worst problems in boxing:

Clinching(illegal)

Running(rounds should and can legitimately be lost because of this)

[Chipper]

Williams didn't hold that much. At least he threw a **** load of punches.

[squealpiggy]

Williams held in every single rounds as much as six times a round.

[restless_438]

sounds like someone lost some money... Margarito was doing his share of holding in the fight as well... how do you throw 1256 punches in a fight and still get haters saying he holds too much?

[TheEvilSaint]

clinching has been in boxing since its creation. it happens. its nothing new. only on very very very rare occasions do we get to see a fight with little to no clinching.

[wolfgang]

Margarito was holding alot to, and locking williams arm everytime, williams is a tall fighter and cant get his punches off as good as margarito can in the inside, so anyone who says williams holds to much is a moron, especially squealpiggy williams actually has skills and used his reach and speed very well, margarito just counts on his iron chin and his strength and wide punches to win him fights, if anybody says williams was holding or running to much doesnt know anything about boxing, williams only held a little to much in one round, so stop acting like he was holding excessively in every round, the point is williams won so get over it, and start blaming margarito for giving away the first 6 rounds.