All I want to say is this : Yes having fights on ESPN : it's free, and FREE IS GREAT. I love not having to pay money to see a great fight. But Holy **** the amount of BS that you have to put up with during a fight on ESPN is, from Teddy Atlas's unbearable commentary to Stephen A's BS, to the commercials during the bout. Teddy Atlas and Stephen A Smith make Harold Lederman sound like Howard Cosell.
Since ESPN phased back its weekly boxing shows...Teddy has a years worth of pent-up boxing bull-frap inside of him and it immediately comes forth. Smith?, well it is about "Smith" as far as he is concerned.
Bradley pretty much had Horn doing the job, the amount of aggressiveness Steve A and Atlas put on him to make him agree with them was pathetic. Close fight but they kept replaying round 9 over and over and made out Horn didn't land a damn shot the entire fight.
Stephen A. even went so far as to praise the UFC / Dana White in light of the scorecard. As if UFC / Dana White haven't had their share of scorecard controversies.
I thought Atlas and Stephen A did a great job. Shwoitme sucks with Mauro saying some of the dumbest metaphors or whatever you call those phrases he use HBO sucks because Lederman is like the Lou Holtz of boxing...old and out of touch. Kellerman is annoyingly poetic sometimes.
Agree 100%. I mean literally Bradley was backed into a corner having to say he thought Pac won because if he didn't Atlas may have taken a swing at him. Atlas was such a loudmouth during the telecast that I wanted to switch off the commentary so bad, but unfortunately ESPN did not have SAP support where I could at least gotten some rambling español instead would would have been preferred to Atlas's BS. Thank goodness for Bradley though, at least hearing him was tolerable, even if he thought he was in Argentina, who cares, really I'd take Bradley over Atlas any day of the week and twice on Sunday. I mean literally Atlas was such a freakin loudmouth it was maddening, and his analogies stories during the fight it was just like shut the **** up Atlas let me watch the freakin fight. I mean maybe if Atlas wouldn't have spent all that time telling his mind numbing stories about gangsters or whatever the hell he was babbling on about, maybe he would have been more focused on what Horn was doing in there. And round 9 from what I remember wasn't that dominant of a round for Pac. I mean sure he won it, but for it to be a 10-8 without a knockdown you need to basically have one guy not landing anything and being battered piillar to post the entire round without going down. That didn't come close to happening. Yeah Horn did back away off balance and exhausted towards the end of the round but that was only a very small portion of the round, for Atlas to score that 10-8 and just go on and on about it and then for Stephen A to be his echo chamber was just cringewrothy. And also it was incredibly annoying hearing Atlas keep calling Bradley "Timmy" like he's his best friend. I never heard anybody call Bradley "Timmy". Just atrcious loudmouth commentary blabbering away all night from Atlas.
I can't stand Ranallo either, frankly until tonight he was the most annoying commentator to me, but Teddy Atlas gave Ranallo a run for his money here. At this point it's neck and neck between Atlas and Ranallo as to the most annoying commentator in boxing. At least with Atlas you know he actually knows a thing or two about boxing, whereas Ranallo's just a loudmouth with no expertise behind it. I don't know what's worse frankly, but lets be clear, the HBO team of Lampley, Max and Roy are far, far superior to Ranallo or Teddy Atlas. I mean even Lederman high pitched voice and all doesn't annoy me as much or distract me from a fight as much as Atlas did in this fight or Ranallo does consistently.
To be fair, you listen but you don't really give a **** what any of them have to say. Paulie and Roy get it right. These other guys...that's their job to be assholes, lmao.
It has a much larger history. My point was that it wasn't worth a comparison for him to make. They jumped off the deep-end a bit, rather than trying to break it down. I had it 116-112 for Pacquiao, though I think I could easily have made it 115-113, but I'm certainly not wishful for it to be the UFC or have some Dana White input.
Yeah, and you wanna know why? Because boxing is harder to score than UFC Is. Boxing has "more rounds" and boxing has "shorter rounds". So it's more difficult to have to score 12 3-minute rounds than it is to score 3 or 5 5-minute rounds, and with UFC you got more than just punches to worry about. It's easy to score a round when you got a guy just on the ground working over some guy for the entire round. For stephen A to bring up that point, that Ohh UFC is so much better than boxing because you don't have controversial scorecards it's just such a dumbed down way of thinking. Boxing has controversial scorecards, because it's more technical, it's more intricite and just generally harder to do than score a UFC match. It's literally apples to oranges. I think most of us would agree that Boxing is BETTER than UFC and MMA, we love boxing, controversial scorecards and all make it fun, and for someone like Stephen A to make that argument just shows that he doesn't have the intellect and expertise to score a boxing fight accurately, or intelligently debate boxing scoring like we do on here.