When you're hurt, you should be allowed to clinch. I also have no problem with a fighter clinching here and there to avoid getting pinned down and such as long as that is not your only move to get out of it (Mayweather is a good ex. of this, when cornered he can use 3,4 different tactics to get out of it, its not always clinching.
Clinching should NOT be allowed if its part of your style of boxing, punch and hold, punch and hold, punch and hold, this type of fighters are ruining boxing and refs should penalize for that.
The Alexander Maidana fight was funny, you can see so clearly that Alexander is so used to training that way (punch and hold), I mean he had Maidana hurt and he'd be the one doing the holding...wtf...its already in his system he can't control it cause he trains to fight like that and it works, and this is not something we want our young fighters to learn.
Very good post.
Honestly, it was hard for me to get into the Alexander v Maidana fight because there was so much clinching.
It's an effective tactic but excessive amounts of it take a lot of the visual beauty of the sport out of it for me.
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