Larry Merchant set to leave HBO after 35 years?

[SJS19]

Originally Posted by janeschicken

No doubt about it. Jones was absolutely stellar this past weekend. He's become less of an egomaniac of late, and you don't hear him inject stories of his own greatness into the mix.

Jones is actually a very humble man in most aspects of his life.

[tliang1000]

Great news.

[TerryESB]

Yeah that would be cool to have Teddy on HBO

[Royal-T-Bag]

Larry used to be decent but he's gotten so damn senile and somehow slower. is there anyone if the history of tv broadcasting that speaks as slowly as this guy?

[m8te]

Originally Posted by TerryESB

Yeah that would be cool to have Teddy on HBO

for some reason I feel like he and roy would butt heads, but i'd love to see it.

[AJ5]

Originally Posted by janeschicken

No doubt about it. Jones was absolutely stellar this past weekend. He's become less of an egomaniac of late, and you don't hear him inject stories of his own greatness into the mix.

When did he ever do this? It seems it's usually the other commentators like Kellerman saying stuff such as "like Roy was in his prime", not Jones himself.

[LeadLeftHook]

Good hopefully they don't replace him with another old man.

[Jon Saxon]

Originally Posted by terryesb

teddy atlas has forgot more about boxing than merchant has ever known..

100% rubbish.

[IsaL]

Haha, Marquez KO two guys last Saturday.

[janeschicken]

Originally Posted by AJ5

When did he ever do this? It seems it's usually the other commentators like Kellerman saying stuff such as "like Roy was in his prime", not Jones himself.

He did it much more in the past than he does now.. he used to make comments about how certain fighters were using his style, or he would always analogize what was happening in the ring to his own career even when it didn't really warrant it. "It's just like what happened to me in the Olympics!"

Like I said, though, he doesn't do it very much recently.

[markq]

Originally Posted by randomwalk

Good, he was awful in Pac-Marquez.

He was the only one seeing what Marquez was doing. Lamps and RJJ basically gave the fight to Pac from the 4th on. I don't think people like honest commentators. For the most part, Larry is the one that calls fights BS. Heck, how many times has he called out Floyd? I'm a Floyd fan, but I do agree with Larry even when he talks smack about Floyd.

[stebinn]

Well the man is over 80 years old, so I´m glad to see him go, he had his moments. But please somebody put Kellerman out of his misery. Roy jones and Lampley are good though.

[RonnieHornschuh]

Originally Posted by randomwalk

Good, he was awful in Pac-Marquez.

That part with the definition of insanity was great stuff. Did he just make that up as he went along or was it scripted?

[Delroc]

oh wtf, this means we get more Kellerman bullshit. Kellerman is like a groupie.

[Pimp C]

Good riddance, his act grew stale a long time ago.