What all time great has Merchant ever really shown respect too ? Im glad Jones clowned his ass on a broadcast for all the dribble that comes out his mouth !! If Merchant had his way he'd have Ward Gatti 24/7 ! **** his opinion !! Its ironic how much his word is respected yet the man never laced up a pair of gloves in life !
Not this again. You don't have to have Boxed to have an opinion and ask questions. Am I ****ing stupid or what? Larry is asking questions and people are interpreting that as "He's talking ****", "He's being disrespectful".
There is a diffrence from having an opinion and being disrespectful . Merchant always crossed that line . This is why I take a former athletes word over a broadcast journalist ..Its easy to always have an opinion on anyone who performs when your always sitting down !
Where do we begin ..The whole RJJ fought cops and sanitation workers ..Where else do the trolls get their ammo ?? [ame]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=88v5JHDLRHw&feature=related[/ame] [ame]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FYA49V_P4qs&feature=related[/ame] Calling Floyd boring ..Because he's not Ward or Gatti
Produce a source where Merchant is heard to say Jones fought "sanitation workers". To suggest the haters got their ammo exclusively from Merchant is to be stupid. You know this. This is what Merchant asked Floyd Mayweather, word for word... "You've often talked about Boxing as entertainment, you come to the ring dressed like a gladiator, but do you think was particularly entertaining? We had people booing, people were leaving at the end of the 10th and 11th round, and since you brought it up, I want your response?" Again, tell me how that's disrespectful? Where did he ask Floyd why he was boring? Let me guess, this is just your interpretation? You'd have preferred for Merchant to drop down to his knees and start gargling on Floyd's balls for shutting out Carlos Baldomir in a lackluster fight? The fight was ****ing terrible, the crowd knew it, Floyd knew it, and Merchant knew it.
Before the fight started Manny, Lampley and Merchant were saying Floyd had never fought anyone like BAldomir before. Before the fight Floyd was accused of duckign Hatton, and Baldomir in favor of Judah. Floyd puts in a dominating performance against the lineal welterweight titlest, a fight that only became poor after Floyd broke his hand and Merchant instead harps on how bad a peformance it was, to a guy who just dominated the welterweight world champion. He doesnt understand boxing. Now fast forward to 4 years later, Floyd has just walked down Mosley tried to bring the fight to Mosley a bigger fighter then Floyd and again all Merchant can be is negative. Its just in his nature.
Yeah, this isn't really addressing anything I've said though. Imperial, what have you got to say in regards to my response?
Agree, I think that most of the boxers have a great deal of respect for Larry, and after would's think about what he had said and being put on the spot and are forced to think about what was said. Larry is one of the best along with Al for me.
if Roy had a different promoter than shitty slyball ****** Murad Mohammed, Roy would have got better fights.
You asked how he has been disrespectful and a few examples were given ..Hell listen to his rant about how boring Floyd is before the Mosley fight and tell me thats not disrespectful yet Floyd after all that picthed another shut out ! Yet Larry was shitting on him before he even came into the ring ! Yet you don't see him being disrespectful ?