Best clincher you've ever seen?

no one ever questions the amount of holding and hitting in many classic fights, holding effectively has always been a tactic. Although Wlad and Ruiz took it to a different level. :yep

 

Bernard Hopkins certainly has a talent for excessive holding.

By comparison, however, I don't recall seeing Hagler look to grab on ever. I mean, I'm sure he did hold here and there, but not so much that you'd ever really notice it.

 

With a mindset and beard like Hagler's, he wouldn't dream of spoiling a fight with excessive holding

 

:good

Of course he wouldn't.

Hagler was a bonafide, old school warrior and a superb boxer to boot.

 

Clinching/holding has been around since the John L. Sullivan days, might not be pretty but deal with it.

 

Wlad Clinchko vs Povetkin

 

ali, hands down.

 

Gene Tunney, Ali, Bernard Hopkins, Wlad, Ward. All bona fide ATG clinchers.

 

This. Ward and Ruiz totally suck with the excessive holding. Ali and Wlad, excessive holders but at least could still win fights without it.

 

Wlad. That's pretty much all he does.

 

Jack Johnson, Gene Tunney (against Dempsey), Young (against Foreman), Holyfield (against Tyson), Mayweather (against Maidana), Klitschko, Hopkins, Ward, Ruiz.

 

Hagler was always trying to hurt his opponent. He was always aggressively moving forward looking for a ko. He didn't want to win by decision and his record shows that. He wasn't playing tag like Leonard. He wasn't stalling like Hopkins. He was inflicting damage.

 

he never clinches when he is hurt :nut lol

 

Kell Brook vs Shawn porter was very good consistent clinching.

 

I would say Ali took it to a different level first :good