Holding and Clinching - Allowed, Not Allowed, In Between?

[IboxSouthpaw]

Very different things, there's hugging and holding... Then there's "staying close ..locking up your opponent during their attempt to fire while I position myself for more work along the rope all while leaning on the fighter creating a tough and hard fight"

The second is an art of inside fighting that some confuse with just blatant holding

[Mukuro]

Fighters get a lot of leeway on this, especially marquee guys. Holding should be penalized when it is done frequently, regardless of who is doing it.

[ippo]

why not allow fighting inside the clinch.

[asgarth]

Dont want to write something long but I hate the hit and clinch style which is for the purpose of slowing down the pace and not giving opponents an opportunity to fire back.

This is why I love lomachenkos style, he doesn't need to clinch to get out of the danger zone. His footwork is so fluent that he is nowhere to.find after his attack.