Al Bernstein: Golden Boy stooge?

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  1. qwertyblahblah

    qwertyblahblah Boxing Addict Full Member

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    Another angle for you kids to chew on...

    I've always liked Al's style of calling fights, and think he articulates what's happening well without bringing attention to himself. But I now think that's the downfall with him: he NEVER says a word about promoters, alphabets, or boxing politics. He specifically always attempts to justify how a decision that was different from his own score and obviously wrong could be legitimate. When Paulie or Brian Kenny bring up judging, outside interests, etc, he always changes the subject, or smiles as if to say we "shouldn't go there". His neutrality is in fact the perfect cover for promotional influence: not necessarily going overboard in showing favouritism to give an impression of 'objectivity', but keeping quiet when he's supposed to so the agenda isn't apparent.
     
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  2. Lady Girl

    Lady Girl Kneel Before Zod! Full Member

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    guy is a phony
     
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  3. Redondo5

    Redondo5 Boxing Addict Full Member

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    He's POS that's been bought off by the big promotional players
     
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  4. MrMagic

    MrMagic Loyal Member Full Member

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    One of the nicest guys around.
     
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  5. eltirado

    eltirado Obsessed with Boxing Full Member

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    He gives you a fair score, reflects whats going...on...you want him to.be Teddy Atlas
     
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  6. boxing maniac

    boxing maniac Active Member Full Member

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    Why didnt he comment n why Angulo was throwng so Mia St.John punches ?
     
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  7. elchivito

    elchivito master betty Full Member

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    :lol:
     
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  8. boxing maniac

    boxing maniac Active Member Full Member

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    Atlas tells it like it is ...kellerman used to be like that too
     
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  9. Lady Girl

    Lady Girl Kneel Before Zod! Full Member

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    "it is a close fight, hard to score" his words LOL
     
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  10. Kel1981

    Kel1981 P4P No.1 Full Member

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    Al Bernstein is the one guy in boxing I have NEVER had a problem with. Why should he slag off everything that's wrong with boxing? We have enough people to do that already.
     
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  11. TribeOfEphraim

    TribeOfEphraim Tribe of Ephraim Britain Full Member

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    Bernstein ? Don't sound very kosher
     
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  12. trakam

    trakam Well-Known Member Full Member

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    Not only that but now Mallinaggi has signed for Al Haymon he has certainly changed his tune, he was right about the Garcia fight but didnt call bull**** on the Deontay Wilder farce
     
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  13. The Chosen

    The Chosen Well-Known Member Full Member

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    I prefer his less in your face approach. There's enough opinionated egos in punditry (it obviously comes as part of the job). But Bernstein is a sensible head who's very good at articulating his opinion without shoving it down your throat.

    If he doesn't want to be outlandish and brash about promoting and boxing as a business it's just because he's an old ilk of pundit who focuses more about what happens in the ring.

    He scored the fight to Herrera which clearly shows conflict with the judges, what more do you want from him?

    He's the best fight commentator around for me. No dramatics, he leaves that to the other commentators, he just calls what's going on in the ring and talks about the dynamics of he fight (e.g what fighters are doing wrong, what adjustments they need to make, etc).

    You folks in the states count yourselves lucky you've got him. I'd love him on SkySports or Boxnation over some of the shît we have.
     
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  14. DaveyboyEssexUK

    DaveyboyEssexUK Boxing Addict Full Member

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    You mean the Al Bernstein that was ranting at the WBC on twitter for Shafting Degale???
     
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  15. Manfred

    Manfred Obsessed with Boxing Full Member

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    This is a good post. Well stated.:good
     
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