Kessler Was Holding Too

[egreezy]

People are ignoring that in the close quarters he did this and prolonged the clenching sessions to AVOID the inside fighting where he had the disadvantage and was getting beat badly. Yes they initiated by Ward, but when he let go to do his business on the inside Kessler held for a LONGER period of time.

[revs1227]

pretty sure he didnt hold @ all
holding isnt so bad
its the hold 1 arm aroud the intire body and hitting with the other thats bad

[S A M U R A I]

I'm surprised. Kessler rarely ever clinches. Check the Calzaghe fight, for an example -- only 3 clinches initiated by him, once when they got tangled up, and another time when Joe hurt him to the body, IIRC. There was one other time.

Kessler = cleanest fighter I have ever seen. You might as well be fightng a bar of soap in that ring.



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[Benny Leonard]

I'm surprised. Kessler rarely ever clinches. Check the Calzaghe fight, for an example -- only 3 clinches initiated by him, once when they got tangled up, and another time when Joe hurt him to the body, IIRC. There was one other time.

Kessler = cleanest fighter I have ever seen. You might as well be fightng a bar of soap in that ring.

Probably because he is one of the few that bothered to pick up and read the boxing rules and follow it.

[starjammer]

I'm surprised. Kessler rarely ever clinches. Check the Calzaghe fight, for an example -- only 3 clinches initiated by him, once when they got tangled up, and another time when Joe hurt him to the body, IIRC. There was one other time.

Kessler = cleanest fighter I have ever seen. You might as well be fightng a bar of soap in that ring.

lol yeah and unfortunatley against some of these tricky fighters who know how to flirt and bend the rules it really is a disadvantage. Kessler really is too strict for his own good. He's a great credit to the sport, but for his own sake, he should have been rougher last night I felt...

[Pullcounter]

People are ignoring that in the close quarters he did this and prolonged the clenching sessions to AVOID the inside fighting where he had the disadvantage and was getting beat badly. Yes they initiated by Ward, but when he let go to do his business on the inside Kessler held for a LONGER period of time.

kessler didn't initiate the holding and he was not holding and hitting like ward, nor did he lead w/ his head like ward.

[Bhopreign]

Kessler = cleanest fighter I have ever seen. You might as well be fightng a bar of soap in that ring.

Which is one reason he lost, he doesnt like it on the inside, fighters need to know how to get down and dirty. Juan Diaz, with his style, would be much better if he knew how to be rough with it. If Hatton didnt have this quality he would have lost a long time ago.

[Bhopreign]

kessler didn't initiate the holding and he was not holding and hitting like ward, nor did he lead w/ his head like ward.

Wrong, the broadcaster even said in like round 3 that Kessler initiated a clinch, might have been Bernstein.

[Shadows]

Both men did hold, but Ward did it more often.

The ref let them fight and get rough on the inside. He told them to punch out, and in between rounds told Kessler in the corner that when he says let go, he can still fight. But when he says stop, you stop. To me, it didn't seem that he was deliberately favoring Ward over Kessler.

Ward took advantage, Kessler didn't.

[egreezy]

kessler didn't initiate the holding and he was not holding and hitting like ward, nor did he lead w/ his head like ward.

Your missing the point, whnever Ward started a clinch he let go to do his work on the inside and Kessler would hold on in defense to stop the infighting. The referee even told them to fight out of it which Ward tried to do and the ref had on one particular instance told Kessler to let go.