How many clinches were there in Mayweather vs. Pacquiao?

Klitschko gets a pass for clinching? You could have fooled me.

The clinching was not excessive in Pac/May though.

 

It's certainly the #1 criticism most people have of him.

 

Not sure where all the hugging and running comments came from.. Didn't see anything excessive

 

No he doesn't? You're seeing what you want to see.

Either way, in this fight there wasn't much clinching, but Mayweather was using this tactic to neutralize Pacquiao early on (maybe first three rounds), basically if Pac comes on the inside he'd aggressively initiate the clinch and the fight gets broken up with Pacquiao being back on the outside and Mayweather's out of the unfavourable position.

I'm not saying that affected the outcome in any way or that it mattered a whole lot in this particular fight but it did happen and it happens in this sport too much in general, I want to see this kind of tactic dealt with more enforcefully, refs just let it slide.

 

Its coming from a lot of my co-Filipinos who don't watch boxing aside from a Pacquiao fight. You can see a lot of memes in facebook and other social medias. Its embarrassing. If they only saw how Hatton, Bhop, Holy, Ruiz fights

 

more than akiwande did to lennox.

 

Nah, nothing excessive. Floyd did what smart fighters do. What's he supposed to do, stand there with his hands down?

That being said, it was still a boring fight and the fault lies on both fighters, really. For the money they received and the money people paid to see it, it was a dud. Complete dud.

 

I'm not the biggest mayweather fan but it's like people wanted him to fight like an idiot, use no movement, and stand in front of pac. He could have been more offensive but his gameplan seemed to work. He's a defensive fighter, what did you all expect?

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pCVhyrgWSBY

 

It happens when so many ignorant and non-boxing fans get into events of this magnitude. They get forums everywhere (like Skip Bayless and Stephen A. Smith), they fool the ignorants. The real ****ysts are taken away or they become part of the sketch by not coming out and speak about the sport they know.

And, I'm an average fan at best.

 

Who cares. Let's move on from this fight and move to the true 147 battle for supremacy later this month: Kell Brook vs. Frankie Gavin.