I can tolerate Jim Lampley. Larry Merchant, on the other hand, is the most irritating idiot I've ever had to endure just to watch a fight. I've e-mailed HBO more times than I can count about his idiotic, inane bullcrap. The only way I can make it through a fight on HBO is by muting the volume and just watching in silence. I wish someone would stuff a sock in his mouth.
I liked them tonight during the Taylor/Spinks fight. Lampley correctly called for the head of judge Dick Flaherty for scoring the fight 117 to 111 for Spinks. Merchant called for boxing to go back to the smaller gloves and rings and to reward aggressive fighters. Boxing has NEEDED these things for a long time. Maybe if we get these changes, Mayweather may have to stand and fight somebody!How mini people are sick and tired of listening to Jim lampley and larry merchant put down boxers .?
I'd rather hear that then get lied to. Fights like Taylor/Spinks are a waste of everybody's time. The sad part is that the fighters themselves are so cocky about their performances. Spinks actually thought he defeated the champion (Taylor) by landing less than a hundred punches in twelve rounds. What a joke! Taylor seemed very happy with the win and made it clear that the only thing he is concerned about is money in regards to matchmaking. We as fans should not accept this. I have been excited in the past to watch some of these fighters, but I'm just about done letting them fool me.
merchant's unbelieveable five minute questions that lead to a yes or no answer and his deer lost in the headlights look are enough to make any boxing fan puke...I will be glad for the day when they can him and Lampley both... who died and made these clowns 'expert' commentators...I like when Steward contradicts those clowns with real facts from a fighter/trainers point of view... and for the above poster who agreed with ol garbage merchant's point of view...look it up...its called boxing, the premise is to hit and not get hit, not to stand in and slug if you dont have to... if you cant appreciate the 'science' in the 'sweet science' then go watch mma or something... all of you that think floyd should have stood in are retarded...he is a skilled boxer, not some mindless rocky styled slugger...How mini people are sick and tired of listening to Jim lampley and larry merchant put down boxers .?
i find them a bit humorous at times ,you know they have been at this for many years ,but listening to them you wonder if their calling their first fight .they occassionally make a good point,i would think hbo would have them hype up the fights instead of having larry merchant say he would rather be at some polical debate than watch it. i would gladly take his spot even for the boring fights.they could use some new blood calling the fights,definetly.
Those guys piss me off like they could do any better than the boxers they put down. Teddy Atlas is awesome.
The thing that I hate about Lampley is that he is a biased commentator he sounded like a goddamn cheerleader for Taylor when he fought Hopkins...and Merchant believes that people tune in to hear him talk and not to watch the fights...Merchant is arrogant in post fight interviews and routinely cuts off fighters mid-sentence its frustrating
I've lost all respect for Lampley. He should be embarrassed for disparaging Dick Flaherty for his scoring of a fight that could have gone either way. As a wife-beater, Lampley is a perfect fit on an HBO team that values bloodbaths over all else. Thanks in large part to HBO, boxing is heading south in the same way that hockey has. It has sold its soul to the devil by catering to the beer-drinking nonfan who only wants to see blood and cares nothing about the art of boxing. That's the real downfall of boxing and how it's losing its real fans.
Ok ok, first of all Larry Merchant sticks up for the people that want to watch fighters who care! I don't think he wants to see blood baths all the time but he wants to see a fighter give a crap about his proffession and take pride in it, not just be there for the payday. He does ramble on at times, but every once in a while he says something really poetic and poiniant. Lampley I can give or take but you have to appreciate his sense of humor, at the Mayweather DLH fight after Mayweather senior rambled on during, possibly the stupidest five minute jargon I have ever heard with absoloutely no oppinion, Lampley says " well that was some really poiniant stuff, thanks Larry" I was dying! Also does Lennox Lewis ever talk about anything but his own Jab and the fact that others need to jab more? "if he was jabbing more he would be winning the fight" "would anyone like some grey poupon with my jab?" I do love Atlas and Stewart. Maybe they should get tyson in there for some excitement, think him and Merchant will get along?
I was so glad to have found this question posted out there after googling "sick of Jim lampley and Larry Merchant". I knew I was only one of millions who felt the same way.
The Taylor-Spinks fight was not good, but the darkest part of the evening, by far, was when Larry Merchant did NOT announce said night as his last one commentating for HBO.
Perhaps it's a generational issue--my father-in-law is the only semi-boxing fan I know who doesn't consider Larry Merchant to be a self-absorbed, washed up, irrelevant, egomaniacal hack. His questions are bloated and pretentious and his rants are akin to the incoherent reflections of a stroke victim (and I can say this b/c my father was a 3-time stroke victim and was still more coherent than Merchant ever has been). If Merchant interrupts Lederman one more time to tell us how he scored 5 rounds even (what judge have you EVER seen scoring in that manner?!?), I'm going to choke myself. There is no shortage of people in this world whom I would gladly call upon to interrupt Jim Lampley. Larry Merchant is not one of them, and that's saying something.
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