Why forumers were against ref stopping clinches?

[oscar9992]

Why forumers were against ref stopping clinches?


Majority people here keep saying ref destroyed the fight by not allowing clinches & potential hugfest... But it could turn into another Klitschko vs Povetkin type of fight, where taller boxer (Klitschko/Joshua) just leans on shorter one (Povetkin/Parker).


And most funny thing all of you claim it was deciding factor in AJ's victory yesterday, lol.

[M Bison]

Why forumers were against ref stopping clinches?


Majority people here keep saying ref destroyed the fight by not allowing clinches & potential hugfest... But it could turn into another Klitschko vs Povetkin type of fight, where taller boxer (Klitschko/Joshua) just leans on shorter one (Povetkin/Parker).


And most funny thing all of you claim it was deciding factor in AJ's victory yesterday, lol.

Who was locking arms up and throwing cheap shots?
Who was the one getting headlocks in?
Who was the one throwing elbows?

I wonder why AJ wasn't properly told off for his clinching to prevent the inside game.

[SuperSuperLeeds]

Why forumers were against ref stopping clinches?


Majority people here keep saying ref destroyed the fight by not allowing clinches & potential hugfest... But it could turn into another Klitschko vs Povetkin type of fight, where taller boxer (Klitschko/Joshua) just leans on shorter one (Povetkin/Parker).


And most funny thing all of you claim it was deciding factor in AJ's victory yesterday, lol.

because AJ had a 6inch reach advantage meaning parker could do NOTHING from the outside, and when he got inside and started landing body shots that AJ didnt like the ref seperated it. is that really that difficult to understand that you couldnt work it out yourself? same reason people complained about cortez in the hatton/mayweather fight, if you repeatedly separate the action and allow no inside work it heavily favours the outside fighter. simple

[oscar9992]

Who was locking arms up and throwing cheap shots?
Who was the one getting headlocks in?
Who was the one throwing elbows?

I wonder why AJ wasn't properly told off for his clinching to prevent the inside game.

And who was doing headbutts?

[4truth]

And who was doing headbutts?

nobody was doing headbutts. couple of minor clashes of heads sure but the only cut in the fight was from an inadvertent Joshua elbow.

Bottom line is that the ref should have let the fighters fight. Whatever Parker's chances were to score, there were few for him on the outside.

[NEETzsche]

The referee actually encourages spoiling when he is that quick to break fighters up, because then they know that clinching results in an immediate reset so they can do it whenever they feel their opponent is close enough to land punches. If he leaves them to work it out then the fighters are compelled to actually do some in-fighting in order to defend themselves and get an advantage out of the situation

[uppercut510]

he was too quick to break up inside fighting at times, AJ won but inside was parkers only chance. it wasnt enough to say thats why AJ won but would have been nice to see the ref allow the action at points.

[Clegg]

It depends upon the fight doe. In fights where one guy is continuously clinching and the other just wants to fight, a ref like that wouldn't be as bad. There are some Wlad/Ward/Hatton/Hopkins fights he could've made more entertaining. But sometimes last night he was breaking them when all they were doing is throwing legal punches at close range.

[Kezzer]

By all accounts I have heard it was awful referee’ing. But two things to consider:

1) It was Parker’s team who insisted on this referee and they signed him off. From my understanding from a interview I heard a while back Joshua said the referee wouldn’t have been his first choice but he didn’t have any concerns either at the time.

2) It’s really hard to argue the referee had any bias to either fighter, but he did significantly reduce the potential of a K.O. Given Joshua’s punch power compared to Parker I think it would’ve favoured Parker to be honest.

[Madison Boxing]

The referee actually encourages spoiling when he is that quick to break fighters up, because then they know that clinching results in an immediate reset so they can do it whenever they feel their opponent is close enough to land punches. If he leaves them to work it out then the fighters are compelled to actually do some in-fighting in order to defend themselves and get an advantage out of the situation

yeah, good post ^. was gonna write a similar thing but you put it better.