Was Lampley crying at the end of the telecast?

Unfortunately for analyst like Jim Lampley who are hired and get paid a good ammount of money as a play by play man to guide the audience along and describe what is taking place, my feeling is that Lampley often times paints the picture he knows the higher up's want to hear, and holds back when say a Marquez is doing well in a round.

You see it all the time on HBO when the non-house fighter is getting the better of it, there's less depiction of the fight going on and more story telling of something unrelated.

When all of that comes to a brutal halt like it did with Marquez' knockout of Manny Pacquiao, we know Lampley is a man with a heart.
I think he just got hit with the realization of the injustice of it all and then to see Marquez perservere in spite of it all?

 

http://rag-n-bag.livejournal.com/187171.html

Says it all.

 

Tyson, the sole proprietor of boxing once again dominates another thread

easily the GOAT

 

He's always crying after a dramatic fight, he's a total emotional wreck. Yet it added to the atmosphere, breaking down in tears as he looked back how Marquez fought a seemingly unwinnable fight for a decade to deliver something as dramatic as this was a great moment. The HBO crew is very close with these boxers and it's certainly hits them to the bone when one buddy KTFO the other.

 

Lampley misses a **** ton of punches and incorrectly calls shots when they didn't land. He also routinely lets his bias shine brightly through what should be firm objectivity. But with that said, he's emotionally invested in the sport and its fighters and it shows before, during, and after fights. All announcers have their faults, but the good outweighs the bad unquestionably in my mind when it comes to Jim.

 

Good post.

 

Lampley is a good commentator. Was Larry "Vodka" Merchant commentating on the fight? If so, what did he have to say about it?

 

It was funny how he was riding Pacs d!ck so hard in the 6th round until he got ko'd. Therer bias is too funny!

 

I've no problem with Jim getting emotional, if anything it adds to the spectacle of the broadcast. Sometimes it's hard to tell what's emotion and what's his tired voice cracking from a full evening of use. Most notable example of him showing emotion was him paying tribute to a member of the broadcast stuff who'd recently passed away.
What's all this stuff about him being a pothead and a wife beater?

 

Yep he was

 

it his thing he always does it
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btw the d.a said there wasn't any evidence to charge him for wifebeating

 

Hehe, I thought the same thing... the man gets emotional.

 

Hes a whiny little *****. And his half hour HBO boxing program is boring ****. I rather watch reality tv garbage. Who knew anybody can make a boxing news show boring? Well Lampley can.

Heres hoping HBO dumps his ass for a real color commentator like Gus Johnson

 

Correct!
When Pacquiao dropped and had Marquez on unsteady legs in the 5th, Marquez came out for the 6th, and though flat footed and moving less to the laterals, he was giving to Pacquiao as good as he was getting.
I thought the 6th round was a very even round heading to the closing of it.
Marquez in fact for the last minute of that round right before he scored the knockout, hit Pacquiao with vicious and I mean brutal right hand leads and digs to the body.
Pacquiao was being able to find a home for his left finally as Marquez was offering less lateral movement.

What people dont realize is that with less lateral movement being offered, you get to plant your feet much better and uncleash shots with alot better torque.


"Its got to be that he's on roids" people say about Marquez, those shots he was landing did'nt quite have the same effect on Pacquiao before.
What people dont take into account when making such a statement is the mindset in which Marquez was fighting.
The man allready knew he was not going to get a decision against a media darling of which those folks want to see a Pacquiao-Mayweather fight get made.

If I were Marquez I would'nt give a damn if they robbed me again, I would have just gone abou my business propinating the exact same boxing lesson I had done thrice previously.

Marquez however has bigger balls than I do. He was'nt having any of that. You could see the focus he had in the way he consistently drove his shots with authority, and dug the body consistently. Right hands to the pit of Pacquiao's stomach has got to have debilitated Pacquiao's ability to withstand the perfect shot that came at the end of the 6th.

The way Marquez sensed it might be slipping away when he started gushing blood from his nose and the way he dug in more flat footed in that 6th round vs Pacquiao, reminded me of Marvin Hagler when he got cut shortly before he scored his KO of Thomas Hearns.

Power? Its always been there for Marquez. At lightweight he was the first to stop both tough durable fighters in Joel Casamayor and Juan Diaz.
He knocked them both the **** out, and this was before Marquez hooked up with Angel Heredia.

The ability to to hammer down on an opponent with powerhas always been there for Marquez when he wants to reallly sit on his punches, he knows however that when he does that, he's going to eat some in return.
You dont do that against Manny Pacquiao unless you allready know beforehand that you're not going to get a decision no matter how well you box.
In this fight Marquez knew he was'nt getting a decision, do he went right to the power game plan and worked to try and stop Manny Pacquiao!

Not what I would have advised Marquez to do, but it worked! :deal

 

You guys should be grateful .......... in the UK for this fight we had Benny Ricardo ( ex NFL kicker and part time stand up comic ) and Wayne McCullough ex featherweight best known for 12 rounds with Naz and Morales.