If your opponent excessively clinches, theres only one real solution...

[Dean_Razorback]

fight fire with fire

[ElMeroChingon]

No need to be dirty...

Lol, i've seen it before, but ref would've yelled "break!" 5 seconds in.

Great post for those who haven't seen it.

[Tyler_Durden]

Clinching makes fights unbearable to watch and it needs to stop one way or another.

[KO'er]

Wladimir Klitschko has his eye on this topic.

[Barcham]

Lol, i've seen it before, but ref would've yelled "break!" 5 seconds in.

Great post for those who haven't seen it.

If you watch the Murray fight, you will see him trying to clinch in the early rounds and receiving this treatment from GGG. He stopped clinching pretty quickly after that.

[RAV3N]

If the clinching and fouling is excessive then its the ref's job to warn and then deduct points asap, instead of letting it go until round 10 and the fight is nearly over.

Imagine a basketball ref allowing one team to foul until the final quarter, its laughable but for some reason we 'accept' this in boxing.

[daggum]

i would just start crying but then again thats my solution to everything

[IFightDirty]

I don't see why not. If clinching is against the rules, then why not do something against the rules to counter it? It's one thing if a fighter is doing something within the rules to stymie your attack, then no it wouldn't be right to foul to counter it. However, if someone is clinching, low blowing, or rabbit punching, I would do the same, or an equivalent to counter.

When it's all said and done, the ref is to blame for allowing fights to get dirty and out of hand. Can't blame a fighter if they try to get an "edge" in the fight and the ref is allowing it. Of course, there's bounds of reason, and I'm not advocating something as dirty as illegal handwraps, or PED's and such, just to be clear.

[daggum]

I don't see why not. If clinching is against the rules, then why not do something against the rules to counter it? It's one thing if a fighter is doing something within the rules to stymie your attack, then no it wouldn't be right to foul to counter it. However, if someone is clinching, low blowing, or rabbit punching, I would do the same, or an equivalent to counter.

When it's all said and done, the ref is to blame for allowing fights to get dirty and out of hand. Can't blame a fighter if they try to get an "edge" in the fight and the ref is allowing it. Of course, there's bounds of reason, and I'm not advocating something as dirty as illegal handwraps, or PED's and such, just to be clear.

thats what maidna did to floyd in the first fight and floyd and his dumbass fans started calling maidana dirty while entirely ignoring the reason maidana was retaliating. in short they are sh-it fans.

[ea22]

Clinching has really gotten out of hand lately, I was watching an old Mike Tyson fight and one of his opponents got disqualified for clinching excessively while he was getting the **** beat out of him. The guy got disqualified for clinching when he was hurt, which is pretty much unheard of nowadays, clinching for safety is common and while I am ok with that mostly, it just goes to show how boxing has changed. If that same referee would have been present for last week's fight between Broner and Porter, Broner would have gotten disqualified in three rounds.

Fighting dirty to stop clinching wouldn't work unfortunately because most referees would sooner disqualify the guy fighting dirty than the one clinching.