Is clinching excessively and using as a tactic considered cheating to you?

[SoldierWarrior]

Slowing your opponents hand-speed down, slowing down the pace of the fight because you can't keep up with your opponents. Is it cheating to you? I know a fighter was dq'd for those type of tactics against Juan Manuel Marquez before.

Not only does it make most fights a bore to watch, but I consider it cheating.

[B.U.R.N.E.R]

No. If Cotto knew how to clinch he wouldve beat Margarito easily.

[Pugilistic™]

Slowing your opponents hand-speed down, slowing down the pace of the fight because you can't keep up with your opponents. Is it cheating to you? I know a fighter was dq'd for those type of tactics against Juan Manuel Marquez before.

Not only does it make most fights a bore to watch, but I consider it cheating.

Marquez has never won a fight by DQ.

He lost his first pro bout by DQ.

[20/20vision]

Nope. Excessive is an objective term. If the ref deems what a figher is doing 'excessive clinching' then he'll enforce the necessary rules. If he doesn't then the fighter isn't doing anything that could be called cheating.

[1 on 1]

If excessive clinching is happening during a fight, the only party to blame is the referree, under the rules, a fighter who clinches excessively can be penalized by having a point(s) taken away and if it continues it can lead to disqualification.

So, it's all under the discretion of the refereee. I for one would like to see refs enforce more penalties when alot of clinching is going on during a fight. Afterall, the object of the game is to hit each other, not hug each other. Are you listening John Louise, Phony Boy, hehe

[Mr. Fantastic]

Taking a page from the MMA haters. IT IS GAY!!!

But for reals using it like that is such bull****. Its not boxing. The true beauty of it is when you don't clinch and put a boxing clinic. The sweet science at its finest.

[SoldierWarrior]

Marquez has never won a fight by DQ.

He lost his first pro bout by DQ.

Someone posted a video up of it before, where the ref stopped the Marquez fight and the other fighter lost from excessive clinching!

[el malo]

yes and its a ***** move imo. it should only be used when you get hurt.

[el malo]

No. If Cotto knew how to clinch he wouldve beat Margarito easily.

i agree but not if he used it as a tactic and used it excessively. only when he needed to do it.

[o0P4PBOXING0o]

If it was illegal...Bernard Hopkins wouldve lost half his fights by DQ