The Flagrant Desecration of Safety Rules in Boxing and MMA
Cassidy Lee Phillips
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Clinching, and the “one hand free” rule; are interpreted completely different based on who’s the referee. Stoppages are also up for debate. Do we let fighters get knocked out or stopped?If u saw Molina vs Hurd some analyst state it was an early stoppage; but to me Molina was easily on his way to being knocked out and the ref did his job in preventing it. This is the question I ask “ Do we want to prevent KO’s in boxing?” I think not. Look back at the golden era and the see how differently the fights were called.