Why Boxers Clinch and How Muay Thai Fighters Clinch To Win

The strategies of the clinch and the reasons for using it are different for each combat sport. Since Mixed Martial Arts combines so many combat sports, we are going to examine the differences between the clinch as it is used in boxing and the clinch used in Muay Thai fighting.

In the sport of boxing, the clinch is used for one basic reason.

The main reason boxers clinch is to break the other fighter's momentum. When a boxer is on the offensive, his opponent may cover up in an effort to avoid hitting. If the advance Boxer continues to beat his opponent, he will surely cause a fair amount of damage and defense of the fighters not being able to Counter Strike. The attacker is now in control and the fight could take a turn ugly when the fighters hit can change the momentum in his favor.

A common tactic of the boxers involved, the clinch position. Through forward and threw her arms around his opponent, the attack stops short.While in the boxing clinch, the defender leans into his opponent and lays his weight into him. It is very difficult for either fighter to throw an effective boxing punch while in the clinch and fight fans typically do not appreciate the tactic because it's not very exciting to watch.

The referee won't let fighters clinch for long, but there's really not much he can do other than break the fighters apart. Excessive clinching may earn points deductions after a few warnings, but this is a rare event.

Excessive in the later rounds of competition won joint fight when the fighters exhausted and fatigued. Tired fighters clinch and can embrace as a way to breathe and have a break.

The Thai Clinch, is used differently on the other side.

Muay Thai boxing match in a clinch is not a defensive position at all. In the Thai Muay Thai clinch is a position potentially deadly attack.

The ThaiClinch is wrapping your hands, gloves and gloves behind the skull of the opponent, how to get the skull and down his chest. In a position to clinch control of the fighters of other Thai opponent and can beat his opponent with knees to the body and knees to the head. It is also common to throw elbows, while a break from the Thai Clinch or even while still clinching.

The referee is not to break step, a Thai clinch, it is perfectly legal, while strikein the clinch and even while breaking out of the hold.

As you can imagine, the Thai Clinch is a much more useful tactic in MMA that the boxing clinch could ever be.