Al Bernstein or Jim Lampley?????

lefthook hit it on the head Lampley is brillaint for increasing the drama and all that and it can in some fights make it interesting but he lacks the ability to go below the surface of the fight he just calls what punches land etc.. he dosent anaylisise it or add his own insight.

Bernstein just loves boxing and calls it how he sees it and goes deep into the fight and anaylises it brillintly. Also what i like about him is he is just a normal guy he has a laugh on the camera between his workmates etc.... Hes my favrouite

 

Howard Cosell.

 

Lampley is the better TV persona by a small but clear margin.

Bernstein is the better boxing analyst (by a somewhat larger, clearer margin).

Pretty cut and dry, actually.

 

I'll take Bernstein any day over Lampley!!!

 

Both guys are great for boxing. I think Lampley's a bit better at calling a fight, and Bernstien is a bit better at adding color to the commentary.

If the two could team up, we'd have a real winner.

I respect Bernstien a tad more than Lampley mostly based on Bernstien's intellectual honesty. Al's not a cheerleader. While I'm on the topic, I think Steve Farhood is excellent as well.

 

Lampley is a play by play, or blow by blow, commentator. Bernstein is a color commentator. Bernstein has worked a lot with the color commentator that preceded Lampley at HBO, Barry Tompkins.

Merchant is a color commentator.

I guess I like Lampley more as a blow by blow announcer than I do the color commentary of Al Bernstein.

 

Bernstein has more insight, Lampley is more exciting/entertaining. I personally prefer Lampley, but I like Bernsten too.

 

Bernstein, can't stand the ****, not as bad as he was 20 years ago when all he wanted to here was his own winneeee voice, the ***** just would'nt shut it, it's obviously different for yanks as they've always had this sort of jockeying for prominence when 2/3 are at play covering a fight, here in the UK our commentaters were all old school radio trained/journo's & just spoke the fight as it went & never an ego was heard, i used to find bernstein far to "cliche" he's inside/he's outside, now he's lefty & now he's righty, that sort of ****in crap.

You want to here what a great fight commentator is all about just go listen to the (Late) Reg Gutteridge commentary on the Hagler/Hearns fight, ABSOLUTLY ****IN AWESOME then go listen to the **** version from Bernstien & Co. Even all the yank journo's hail it as a masterpiece, as Reg once said when he 1st called live fight for TV, the customers have got bloody eyes & they did'nt pay to listen to me yapping for 3 minutes a round, go tell that to Berstein & Co & please nobody mention that **** Percheco "The Fright Doctor"

 

Bernstein, and it's not even close.

 

I like both guys but I know what you're saying about Lampley. The whole HBO crew was in bad shape for the Dawson/Johnson card I thought. But it happens. I still prefer HBO broadcasts really but I noticed a lot of ESBers were flat out disgusted with them this past week. Bernstein does strike me as a guy who just knows the sport more deeply than Lampley. Lampley knows a bit but he's not there as the boxing brains and I don't think he pretends to be.

 

Bernstein is the best announcer i've ever heard.

 

Lampley is a good sports guy for the Olympics and everything like Bob Costas, but Bernstein is a real boxing guy who knows the sports. I would pick Bernstein anyday-all the time. But HBO needs the guy like Lampley who brings in the non-boxing fans.

 

I'm a huge Bernstein fan. There's so little glitter about him, seems like he's just himself.

 

Bernstein is much better overall, though Lampley makes fights much more exciting, so I'd rather listen to him.