Clinching needs to be penalized harder to make it fair for shorter fighters

SmackDaBum · Mar 3, 2024

NewChallenger said: ↑

If I am a taller fighter, I just jab jab right hand or uppercut on the way in, and then when the shorter fighter is close I just grab lean and on and on and on.

It takes absoloutely no skill to do.

How exactly is it fair that the taller and bigger fighter has better reach, more weight, are taller and now gets to just grab and lean constantly so they don't have to deal with any pressure or take nearly any punches.

The reason why shorter fighters have such short primes purely because they have to be so much better than their taller,bigger opponents. They have to be in absoloute top athetlic shape, and they (at heavyweight) NEED to have knockout power, because they are not only fighting their opponent,they are also fighting the rules.

So I feel that they need to take points away and disqualify faster for taller fighters so that it can even the playing field.
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Have you seen Lewis vs Tyson or Klitschko vs Povetkin?

alakran · Mar 3, 2024

BCS8 said: ↑

Agree. Get rid of clinching if at all possible. I'm here to see a brawl not dancing with the stars.
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If you want to see a brawl you have to watch the small mexican or asian boxing cards

NewChallenger · Mar 3, 2024

alakran said: ↑

If you want to see a brawl you have to watch the small mexican or asian boxing cards
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or if he wants to get braindamage just from watching a fight; Lyle vs Foreman

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Clinching needs to be penalized harder to make it fair for shorter fighters

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