Is fighting dirty part of the game?

[SkillspayBills]

It's a ****ing fight. This isn't golf. People will push, use elbows, block your breathing, use their shoulder, punch at your cut. It's a scrap the **** shouldn't be polite and gentlemanly.

[BoxingLegend89']

Yea its part of the game

Floyd uses his elbows to either hit you or to block punches which can break some1s hand, he also pushes your head down when clinching ala Wladimir klitschko

Hopkins = definition of dirty tactics

Cotto hits you low sometimes when hes hurt (Corley, Judah, Torres)

I think pacquiao fights fair, idk. I have to go back and watch some of his fights to see if i spot anything

[saintpat]

It's a skill ... like anything else.

[creekrat77]

In some respects it's part of the trade. I mean it doesn't matter what culture, fighting for a living is far from glamorous. Not exactly an honorable occupation in societies point of view. Boxers and boxing insiders may assign honor and principle to the sport but it is not part of the sport at large like other monopolized sports like NBA and NFL. Main stream progressivism heavily influences those sports, that's why Im glad boxing is mainly influenced by those who box alone and not pretend journalist femi****s who are going to ruin those main stream sports. Sports are for the fellas end of story. Especially for the ones that actually follow and support the sport. Luckily the core pugilistic nature of boxing keeps the progressives away. It's a lost cause for them. A conundrum if you will. At the end if the day professional sports for the athlete is about sacrificing your body for something you love.

[DannYankee]

Obviously it is,and done well it can earn you the fight over a more skilled fighter who falls for the tactics and doesn't know how to deal with the situation. Just ask Lomachenko about Salido.

[12TRIBEsRiSe]

90% of the greats had a little dirt in their game so yes!

[Scipio2009]

I was having a debate with someone on Twitter, he said it wasn't and never will be and I said although it shouldn't be, it is and you should use it to your advantage e.g Lomachenko vs Salido and Garcia Matthysse where they go away with murder but the ref didn't see it.

fighters are supposed to fight, protecting themselves at all times; the ref explains the rules in the dressing room, but it's on the ref to ensure the rules are followed.

If the ref is incompetent, things can turn bad real quick

[Sugar Adam Ali]

Yes...

It's a fight, not a game...

You play baseball
You play futbol
You play basketball

You don't play boxing, you fight

[boliodogs]

I voted no. No doubt some fighters make dirty fighting help them to win fights but I don't like them for it and think less of them for their dirty tactics. It helps them win fights but hurts their popularity and drawing power. Ward is a good example. He is a dirty fighter who wrestles and holds and hits illegally. He has never lost a fight but there aren't to many Ward fans. Pacquiao gets the job done and he always fights clean as does Marquez. Even Mayweather is usually a clean fighter although he can fight dirty if he wants to.