devin the hugger haney

[Sctrojan]

I was in and out watching his fight, I knew it was going to be one sided, but the broadcast had an on going tally of how many times Haney initiated the clinch lol

Did they show the final tally lol?

But yea,Haneys style is honestly an eye sore,Richard Abril ugly. Haneys a good boxer and has the Andre Ward mentality of doing whatever it takes to get the victory but it will, and does come at a price. Having been unable to promote and make a profit off of his investment with Crawford,not sure TR or any promoter other than maybe DAZN will be knocking down doors with offers.

[buddyr]

hugging isn't what almost had Kambosos out of there. it was punches. Even if Kambosos would have knocked Haney out in the 12th, the fight would have been a draw.

[Sctrojan]

Pissed me off and seemed suspect Linares did NOTHING for the first half of the last round letting Haney recover,dumbass.

[Regge]

it is the OPPONENT JOB to do something about the Clinching, I'm consistent I said that about Sakio Bika, Andre Ward, Ricky Hatton, Bernard Hopkins, Wlad Klitschko...the opponent need to prepare for that. Mayweather fought Hatton, he was prepared for it!

The "GREATS" always Find A Way no damn excuses

Clinching is not part of fighting imagine a prize fighter in the street gets into it with a guy who just rushed him and holds we'll have a stalemate nothing happens. These fighters use that when it should be illegal it's not figting but for some odd reason officials don't wanna penalize a certain group for that.

That's trash and it started with Mayweather and ppl wonder why boxing gets so much hate by the masses.

[Regge]

All the dancing and hugging is going to ruin boxing.

Correct

And it began with Mayweather.

[sicko]

Clinching is not part of fighting imagine a prize fighter in the street gets into it with a guy who just rushed him and holds we'll have a stalemate nothing happens. These fighters use that when it should be illegal it's not figting but for some odd reason officials don't wanna penalize a certain group for that.

That's trash and it started with Mayweather and ppl wonder why boxing gets so much hate by the masses.

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Not only was clinching always part of boxing, back then Ref did not break, they left the fighters to FIGHT OUT!

Inside Fighting aka "DIRTY BOXING" is a lost art, not many are good at it anymore so they just look over to the ref to come and save them instead of fighting out. Fighters shouldn't be saved from having to fight on the inside just because they can't do it.

That fact that you THINK it started with Mayweather confirms what I already knew...

[BodyBagz]

The thing with clinches is to not wrestle a guy off of you.
Hands up covering your ears, elbows tucked (if possible...PROTECT YOURSELF AT ALL TIMES) and let the ref break yous up.

At the end of the round, let your people complain to the ref and threaten to protest if he doesn't do his job.
Wrestling with a clincher wastes energy and let's the ref off the hook.

[BodyBagz]

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Not only was clinching always part of boxing, back then Ref did not break, they left the fighters to FIGHT OUT!

Inside Fighting aka "DIRTY BOXING" is a lost art, not many are good at it anymore so they just look over to the ref to come and save them instead of fighting out. Fighters shouldn't be saved from having to fight on the inside just because they can't do it.

That fact that you THINK it started with Mayweather confirms what I already knew...

Boxing has come a looooooooooooong way since then

Most notably, no more 15+ rd fights.

[Regge]

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Not only was clinching always part of boxing, back then Ref did not break, they left the fighters to FIGHT OUT!

Inside Fighting aka "DIRTY BOXING" is a lost art, not many are good at it anymore so they just look over to the ref to come and save them instead of fighting out. Fighters shouldn't be saved from having to fight on the inside just because they can't do it.

That fact that you THINK it started with Mayweather confirms what I already knew...

Lol are you serious please show me where Haney is fighting g off the clinch???? He uses it to stal the fight nothing else. Guys like Maidana, Cruz and prime Castillo would work nicely in the clinch but once they punch ref conveniently separates them. Cmon man no need to defend the horrendous trash Haney does it only hurts the sport and its been hurting it for a while now.

and yes it pretty much started with Floyd jab 1,2 tie up clinch rinse and repeat. They don't fight off no damn clinch get outta here with that BS for them it's a form of stalling till refs saves em plain n simple.

[Lance98]

Kambosos was doing a lot of hugging this time, clown.