Holding and hitting

[BattlingNelson]

Arthur Abraham tried to use a Lennox Lewis uppercut (holding the opponents head with the left and throwing an uppercut with the right) on Lajuan Simon but he was quickly warned for it.

Yeah. Ref did a good job there. AA ain't schooled good enough in the dirty deed department....

[Steak]

Arthur Abraham tried to use a Lennox Lewis uppercut (holding the opponents head with the left and throwing an uppercut with the right) on Lajuan Simon but he was quickly warned for it.

ha, that was pretty much Ernie Shavers' finishing blow. He knocked out a few guys with that.

personally, I dont think a guy whos holding and hitting should get in any more trouble than a guy who is just holding.

[TheGreatA]

ha, that was pretty much Ernie Shavers' finishing blow. He knocked out a few guys with that.

personally, I dont think a guy whos holding and hitting should get in any more trouble than a guy who is just holding.

To be fair to Shavers, Ellis was looking to do the same to him but Shavers was just faster with his uppercut.

[Saronic]

Holding should not be allowed at all. I would like to see guys who hold as a method of staying in the fight be DQ'd after only one warning to set a standard...if someone is holding which is cheating they should get hit it is no question...but at the end of the day the guy holding should be DQ'd at once.

Mayeather likes to hold fighters arms so does Hopkins and others. They hold their opponents hand preventing them to get counter punch. Boxing is boxing and not wrestling. I've seen these guys doing some excessive holding. If every boxer starts to do this i'll bet they'll change the rules. Thats an advantage for dirty boxers.

[Pullcounter]

whats your take on holding and hitting? refs seem to get worked up about it unnecessarily, imo. the illegal part about holding and hitting is the holding, not the hitting, and yet it seems that refs will jump all over a guy for holding and hitting and let someone else hold all night without warning.

personally, I think if two guys are tied up but are able to punch effectively, then the ref should just let it be and instead get more angry at a guy who simply clinches.

if you're gonna infight, do it correctly, otherwise dont infight at all.

[Kris Silver]

I really don't like holding and hitting.

It takes away so much skill and finess of the game, leaves it to just tough guys exchanging shots with a 90% hit ratio. Pointless.

That's not an art form, really.

Probably why I'm not a big fan of Hatton, at least anymore.

I prefer to see ref's encourage them verbally to come out of it, threaten punishments or subtly pushed them apart so fighters do it half of their own accord, rather than completely splitting them up. Thar ruins the flow, and makes it too stop/start.

[-Hyperion-]

its against the rules so.....

as long as both can punch and get out of it quickly, then theres not much you can do about it......it would be worse to break up the action the moment they clinch...referees should issue a warning though, so they cant do it that much...the referee that worked collazo berto was spot on.......berto was forced to fight, thus it was an exciting fight.....the moment berto got uncomfortable against forbes, he started clinching and hitting, and since no one warned him, he went on to cruise an uneventful ud.....

fighters should learn how to infight properly....it is annoying as **** when people say hatton is an infighter....