Is Jim Lampley the most biased commentator in boxing?

In boxing, no.
In the US, I don't know.

 

He's a good play by play announcer, but I've noticed he crosses the line from time to time with some of the things he says.

I remember the Barrera-Hamed fight quite vividly still. When MAB was beating him up, in the later rounds Lampley started making mention of Allah and how he must've wanted Hamed to lose the fight. It seemed so unnecessary at the time, happened right after 9/11 I believe, and I remember Foreman was the co-announcer that night and he really seemed infuriated by Lampley's remarks on religion.

He's a good announcer in general, but he definitely lets his emotions and personal feelings get the best of him from time to time during his play by play.

 

lamps can be a smug sob....at pac/cotto i saw him in the wing that leads to the grand garden arena as i was coming back from the pool...at about 5 o clock....i was still in pool attire and he was walking with a guy...lamps was in his tux and i assume he was headed to a meeting walking next to a production guy.....i asked him "lamps can i get get a picture please".....as we crossed paths.....he sort of slowed down and turned to me and walked backwards while looking right at me....and was like "uhhhmmmm....no"...i was like wtf.....im 6-1 185 lbs and handsome so its not like "oh im not taking a pic with this dork"...he literally wouldn stop for 15 seconds to snap a pic ....and there werent many people around at all at that time

 

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roy jones should bring pom pons ringside, as biased as he is.

 

We all are biased to a certain degree.It is only human nature.He is still the best as is HBO.

 

Nick Halling, Jim Watt, who ever the bloody hell does TYC Sports, JCC ...lots of biased folk out there

 

He is terrible.
He ****s up the true perspective of the fight.
I have to turn the sound off to watch any fight where he is doing the play by play.
HE HAS NEVER boxed.
He has a bias agenda.

 

Is there any commentator, or any person for that matter, that fully pleases everyone?. The answer is no.

 

No. The Brits on Box Nation are much worse when they're covering a British fighter. And they only seem bad, because we don't know what the Spanish, Russian, and Japanese commentators are saying.

 

Nowhere near as bias as showtime commentators for a Floyd fight. He makes someone miss and "master" "magician" etc, through the whole damm fight. Might as well get in the corner and suck his **** in between rounds. I suppose they did have to protect their $250 investment.

 

He's not awful but can be a little biased at times. I enjoy his commentating though. I just can't stand 2 things: 1) calling missed punches (phantom punches) and 2) verbalizing what a boxer is probably thinking.

 

My problem is his inaccurate fight calling. Punches that are blocked, partially blocked, or out right miss the target should be called as such.

I think his emotions get the better of him at times, and he gets excited "like a boxing fan." Lamps has to control that stuff. It really bugs me when he calls punches that didn't land.

 

It was horrible and on full display in the Pac-Bradley fight. Pac throws a left that completely misses "HARD LEFT HAND ON THE CHIN!!" Horrible play by play in that fight.