New clinching rules.

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Hehehe

 

Strategic clinching has always been a part of the sport..............look back historically, all the greatest strategically clinched. There are some fighters that get overzealous with it however.

 

Ali would most definitely have lost his GOAT status then.

 

Not Wlad.

 

Talented inside fighters tend to fight in the clinch, how on earth would they be rewarded?

 

No, excessive clinching leads to point deduction but not clinching in general and it shouldn't be that way. This is boxing not brawling

 

Better to limit it to something like 5-6-7 clinches a round. If you banned clinching completely, then boxers would suffer very short careers. Like 5-10 professional fights at world level. Everyone would just pound each other brains in.

 

It has been for a century

 

But low blows have been illegal, clinching has not

 

What a hot mess of a thread this is

 

Steve Smoger is the best referee in boxing for reffing the inside fight and it's why he reffed so many FOTY winners and contenders.

He should be the blueprint for every ref going forward.

 

This sums up the topic very well. A boxer needs to be able to clinch when he's hurt; what's he supposed to do, trade with the guy who just popped him, meanwhile his head isn't clear?

Holding and hitting isn't legal, but grabbing while in a clinch is fine and legal, UNLESS it is constant, then it's not legal.

 

Cymling is a town in Wales, correct?

 

I don't like clinching at all. Boxing has already the built in limitation of only using punches. When you allow for clinching, it makes it even less like real fighting. Why would anyone allow you to hold on to them and stay relatively safe there? It's unnatural and awkward and should have been nipped at the butt from the beginning.

Clinching IS technically illegal. It's barely enforced though.