Comments Thread For: Daily Bread Mailbag: Tank-Garcia, Fury-Usyk, Benavidez-Plant, More

[Roadblock]

Don't think he has.He says the clinching wasn't excessive and is a "smart tactic" because "we just wanted to see Plant get knocked out" lol wtf?? EXCESSIVE holding is illegal and prohibits a fighter from executing further punches that potentially give that fighter a victory by KO. And in this case, had Bayless not allowed all that holding on top of calling a blatant "I gotta save plant" timeout midwawhen he got hurt, Benavidez wouldve won by KO. Then he says he thinks Caleb won 6 rounds.

I get it though,being Plants trainer he"ll never view or say things with complete objectivity,true for most trainer

Excessive is subjective and refs have very different styles, no matter what happens over a 12 round fight there is ALWAYS something to complain about.

Whats the difference between holding and tieing up its all grappling which is a part of boxing and it gives the ref the option of breaking the grappling or letting them fight ugly, there have been many masters of tieing up an opponent in the sport of boxing the greatest Ali was one, there are ways of stopping guys from tieing you up that is also a skill.

[ShoulderRoll]

If a ref is going to allow constant clinching then he shouldn’t break the boxers up. Let them fight their way out of the clinch themselves.

Otherwise the better inside fighter is getting penalized because every time he gets in range he gets held and then pushed back to the outside. Meaning he has to try to work his way back inside again…only for the exact same thing to happen when he does.

It’s a vicious circle of cock blockery.

[JT$615]

If you had Benavidez vs Plant a draw YDKSAB!!!!