Due to Golovkin winning nearly every fight with ease in HBO the commentary team was used to going off topic and speaking about things in general about GGG so when a fight was closer like Jacobs and Canelo they didn’t do their job well in commentating on the action that was actually happening but rather creating storylines. This made it look like GGG wasn’t doing well just because he wasn’t destroying them. In the 2nd Canelo fight Max kept banging on about how GGG was on the back foot and “the story of the fight” but while he was saying that GGG was doing his best work and the commentary team never got to acknowledge it. They were just creating a storyline that GGG was old and Canelo was dominating. Poor. The old school commentating where they used to just speak about what’s happening in the actual fight was much better than some of today’s nonsense.
Play by Play commentating died when people stopped following fights on the radio. I don't want some old guy narrating what I'm watching. I have eyes.
I enjoy it when someone is actually breaking down what is happening. Why one guy is using a certain tacit, why this punch landed and why that one isn't working. But we rarely get any of that these days.
Max Kellerman was absolutely horrendous with his talk of ''winning the story of the fight''. Complete nonsense... If I could just stop the commentaries I would, but since it's not an option I like when they can, like you say, break down what is happening, but most time the team can't even do that correctly.
BT sports did a much better job of Canelo vs GGG fight but in general I want to hear the atmosphere and sound of the punches in fights.
The 'story of the fight' nonsense Kellerman was coming out with was absolute poison IMO and way worse than some literal Larry just describing what's going on. I don't want a commentator to try and colour my opinion of the action like some shiftless salesman - I want insight into tactical changes that I may be missing. Thus someone like Kellerman has no business in trying to provide insight as he DKSAB.
In the arena if i heard max know-nothing kellerman bleating on I'd want my money back... how anyone would think that any of those lame commentaters make an atmosphere is wild...I reckon there is more atmosphere on the moon!
HBO commentary, like most, was always bias, but in retrospect HBO was getting heavily bias towards the end of their boxing program.