LOL most of people hating on Merchant are blatantly Mayweather fans - so pathetic. You may or may not be a fan but Merchant is not exactly someone you hate - he was likeable and entertaining and despite a lack of technical knowledge that's not what he was there for.
No, **** that old drunken ****. Glad JMM retired his old ass. All thats left is for ***** ass Lampley and Lederman to go.
Some are. Lots aren't. Yes, I hated having to listen to him, for years. No, he wasn't. Kind of an issue, especially when, per the above, he didn't bring any other redeeming qualities. Actually, it kind of was supposed to be his job.
I miss him very much. I grew up watching and listening to Larry Merchant and Jim Lampley. Larry is going to be calling the Macau boxing card with George Foreman next month. I look forward to that. I am just as excited to be hearing Larry and George again as I am for the fights.
Stay in touch with Larry and talk to him at the fights, pw. Vividly remember him as the most ferocious hitter 'n ball hawk in N.Y. prep football at only 150 pounds.
Scratch the surface, pw, 'n boxing's grandfatherly poet laureate -- silver hair or not -- is still the brawler from Bensonhurst, Brooklyn, as Floyd discovered.
Hard to imagine, cause this incident went viral: When, after being screamed at an insulted by Floyd in a post-fight interview, Larry said the unthinkable: "If was 50 years younger, I'd kick your ass"
...except that's a conveniently unverifiable boast, what with him not being 50 years younger, and it wasn't all that cute or brilliantly clever a thing to say in that moment as Merchant nut-huggers and/or Mayweather haters would like to believe. So, yeah, neither Floyd nor anyone else discovered anything of the sort, if Merchant in fact did ever have a brawler's mentality. One idle (and, really, unprofessional given his role there - whether clearly a joke or not) threat delivered more for yuks and to retaliate and reverse the focus of having been called out and put down on national TV than to assert his withered manhood doesn't mean all that much.