Great New Hour-Long Interview With Larry Merchant

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  1. Kid Quick

    Kid Quick Faster Than Eddie Full Member

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    He's a big fan of Mikey Garcia, and his favorite boxing movie is "The Set-Up" (1949), which is also my favorite boxing movie.

    https://content.production.cdn.art1...d11ac22f2d8f9137ce7f/3KDR podcast 168 WEB.mp3

    This made me wish we had someone like Larry still calling boxing fights today. He really knows the sport inside and out. Steve Kim and Mario Lopez ask him all the right questions, including about Deontay Wilder. The show is a must-listen.
     
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    Now we have a bunch of SJWs calling boxing
     
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  3. KO KIDD

    KO KIDD Loyal Member Full Member

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    great interview it's nice to hear his take
     
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    i had no idea larry and i thought and saw boxing almost exactly alike. other than him not seeing the pac-lucas result beforehand, we are in sync.
     
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    Surprised Larry didn't die before the hour was up. How old is he? I love Larry!
     
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    bandeedo Loyal Member Full Member

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    the guy sat next to hemingway and dimaggio watching srr vs basilio... i like to brag i met pryor once.:oops:
     
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  7. Angler Andrew

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    Yes it’s all snowflakes calling it now
     
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  8. Willie Maeket

    Willie Maeket "40 Acres and Mule" -General William T. Sherman Full Member

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    Larry Merchant refuses to go to the great beyond. He is still waiting on that time machine so he can go back 30 years and whoop Floyd's ass.
     
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    You mean like 60 years.
     
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    UnleashtheFURY D'oh! Full Member

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    Merchant will always be one of the best..... Told it how it was unlike the disgusting pandering commentators and analysts of today. Kellercuck is sickening to sit and listen to!
     
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    Defo going to check out that film, sounds decent.
     
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    Nonito Smoak Ioka>Lomo, sorry my dudes Full Member

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    Uhhhh, this seems like some revisionist history, haha. Larry Merchant is/was dreadful. Somebody's got to say it I know that was the consensus on the board before he finally got the boot off the mic.
     
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    Every single ex boxer who was done commentary for HBO with him has called him out for being an armchair quarterback, who is clueless and eventually falls asleep if it's not a complete slugfest.

    But tbh Larry isn't THAAT bad compared to Lampley.
    Larry is less biased in his scoring than Ledermann, and even though he's opinionated he calls it the way he sees it and seems to have integrity and consistency while Lampley is the worst and most biased cheerleader I have ever seen.
    The guy basically creams himself for the house fighter.


    All of them are stale old farts that need to be aired out.
     
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  14. KO KIDD

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    merchant would actually make calls against the house fighter

    my only gripe really was his delivery started to slow down considerably

    i liked his stuff in the older days on hbo during the 80's when he would do the prefight build up talk and presenting
     
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    Only among bitter Floyd fans like yourself. For everyone else, Larry is the poet laureate of boxing.
     
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