Went back and looked at it. There was a lot more wrong with Herbie Hide than there was with Lampley, haha. He was falling all over himself after a pretty good showing up til about the last minute of that round, then he kind of just collapsed. As for Lampley, I didn’t see anything wrong. He stepped on Gil Clancy’s toes a little bit and cut off Merchant once when something happened (I think Bowe hurt Hide with a jab at that point maybe) but that’s down to having a three-man booth and Clancy being a newcomer (or maybe getting a tryout) with the HBO team. There’s a cadence there, and when people work together it smooths out (see Tim Ryan and Clancy or any of the HBO combinations when they’ve worked together a while). You’ve got three men sitting together, all working to get in when and what to say. Also with a producer talking into their ear (some are constant chatterers, others gentle reminders). Usually a ‘booth’ works it out so someone will raise a finger when they want to talk or tap the other person on the arm. That’s fine in a baseball game with a slow pace, or a football game where there’s 10 seconds of action and then 40 seconds before the next snap. But in a fight, the action ebbs and flows and different people want to jump in to make an observation and it’s constant. My guess is what OP is talking about it just some uneven communication among three people who haven’t spent a lot of time together doing this live. Lampley as the play-by-play guy is the ringmaster, drawing the other two in when needed and stepping out of their way when needed. In this case, that process hadn’t been under live fire with Clancy on the team is my guess.
