Wladimir Klitschko: a poor sportsman

...except clinching is a grey area in terms of legality in boxing. Flagrant headbutts like this are not, and they are dangerous and should lead to a ban and/or fines in all honesty.

 

To me the butt is worse than anything else you could point to as scummy of Wlad or unlikable about him or his style, combined.

In that one moment he should've just lost every fan he ever had - and that's even if you dislike Fury. Just a complete and total loss of integrity.

 

Rode it, to be precise - if he "slipped it" there would have been no contact. But yeah, nice reflexes there. :yep

 

There is actually nothing illegal about what Floyd did with his elbows.

 

OMG, you're seriously comparing the Mayweather vs. Ortiz KO (where Cortes had already motioned both men to continue fighting) with the Butler vs. Grant assault? (which occurred after the match was over) atschatschatschatsch

That's a special brand of screwed up in the head, you are.

 

Ortiz did it for the same reason as Wlad, frustration. I'm not sure where people are getting that it was retaliatory. If he claimed that in any interviews afterwards it was pure spin and regurgitating it pure apologist nonsense.

 

...except that isn't what he did? Mayweather braced off to create separation using his forearms and elbows. Nearly every boxer does this at some point. Mayweather did it frequently because he was subjected to a higher degree of crowding-style pressure than most, since it was long believed this was part of the "blueprint" to beating him.