Mayweather Sr. Said Haney Boxed Circles Around Tank – Maybe It's True?

[Cypocryphy]

I do not know if all boxing fans understand what boxing circles means.

I have been watching boxing since I was 5, since the 90s, and I am not an expert or some licensed boxing trainer or anything like that, but it just doesn’t seem like what Haney does should be called “boxing circles”.

I am sorry but landing a jab, and then ducking under the opponent’s counterpunch, holding him, then spinning around to his back and hugging him until the ref breaks it up, that’s not boxing. I am sorry but boxing has rules, and just because ref’s don’t enforce these rules or prevent a fighter from continuously breaking them, still doesn’t make it right. And how can you be such an amazing boxer with this high degree of skill that fans see, but you land 69 power punches in 12 rounds vs your opponents 68? What type of domination is that?

Boxing circles, in my eyes, was what Mayweather did to Hernandez and Corrales. Or what Roy Jones was doing in his prime. Or what Ali did in his prime.

What Haney does is not boxing circles, sorry but it really isn’t. You need to show more variety in your punch sequence besides jabbing and holding.

Even Andre Ward, whose accused of a lot of holding and hugging, mixed up his punches with jabs, hooks and right hands. Jabbing and holding/hugging/wrestling is such a cop out.

Very well said!! Couldn't agree more. I think trainers and the team can talk to the referee at the beginning of the fight and say, "hey, he breaks the rules." And adamantly say,"We can't allow hugging like that, and we want you to enforce that rule if he starts clinching repeatedly."

I think if the team makes some noise about it that it might help. I'd complain to the commission too. I'd be absolutely disgusted by what happened. Like you said, when you don't enforce the rules, you lose viewers and the sport as a whole suffers.

[boogbx]

Haney easily outboxes tank. Tank 135 and up is very beatable.

[Cypocryphy]

Haney easily outboxes tank. Tank 135 and up is very beatable.

I've been thinking about this. If Haney clinches relentlessly, then Tank is beatable. But if the rules are enforced to prevent clinching every 5 to 10 seconds, then I think Tank can beat Haney. It just depends on whether a referee will enforce the rules or not.

When you are the bigger guy and are clinching, that advantage is huge.