That **** aint gonna work against Floyd. He tries to bully Floyd he gets smacked. Best bet is stay on the outside and try to use his youth.
Guerrero was dirty but not crazy so. Only thing that pissed me off was him attacking Berto after the bell.
It was Berto who initiated the holding and the ref is allowed to let them fight as long as there is a free hand. Berto wanted to hold instead of fight and he took that ass whooping good!
According to the HBO crew, yes. In reality, no. Many of the clinches they were complaining about were initiated by Berto. Berto, with his low ass workrate, has a tendency to leap in with a single punch at a time then clinch when he misses. There was rough stuff on both sides. For instance, Berto nailed Guerrero with around 10 hard rabbit punches before the ref warned him, and when he finally did so, the HBO were complaining that Berto should be allowed to land them, even going so far as to blame Guerrero for them. HBO invested millions over the past few years hyping up Berto as the next American star, so seeing him get his ass handed to him by a former Featherweight must have been a bitter pill to swallow. Now they're suddenly propping up Guerrero as Mayweather's best possible option, because they see the dollar signs.
Mares in the first Agbeko fight was dirty to the point of deserving a disqualification. I've never seen a fighter hitting someone low THAT many times. Thomas Hauser (in this article) claims that Mares hit Agbeko with around 55 solid low blows. Hopkins put on an exhibition of dirty tactics against Calzaghe -- headbutts, rough tactics in the clinch, etc, but he was able to hide a lot of it. He's crafty. I also remember Sakio Bika having a very rough fight with Calzaghe. Another old fight which was particularly dirty was Pac vs Agapito Sanchez. At one point Sanchez actually employed a combination of dirty moves -- a low blow, then a rabbit punch, and then he pushed Pac to the floor, putting his weight on Pac's knee as he did so. (I don't know if the last bit was intentional, but Pac certainly looked like he was in some pain after receiving that.)