I just started waching Legendary nights HBO boxing and recomend it a lot, especially for someone like me who started being a big fan of box lately. [ame]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pFQ2oJ3asaM[/ame] This is Chavez vs Taylor you can see more there. I was wondering if someone can tell me, at the start of the episode you can hear great lines from commentators for this big fights, on of the last ones I think is Larry Merchant saying "How do you like it, how do you like it!" Does anybody knows from what fight is that from???
He was doing Jim Lampley in the butt during a bout in AC, and screamed "How do you like it"?? Until Jim began to moan.
This series got me into boxing - really shows the greatness and drama of Boxing - makes the great nights seem greater, but doesn't shy away from revealing the more depressing sides like Cooney-Holmes and the speech patterns of Bowe and Taylor.
They should make more episodes, without the myths and half-truths this time. It was a well-made series which sometimes distorted the truth for the sake of drama. Boxing forums are polluted with the bull**** spewed on this documentary series.
As said above, Barry Tompkins said it during Leonard-Hagler, I think at the end of the fight. Tompkins was/is a solid commentator. Doesn't have the voice and charisma of Jim Lampley, but also isn't as biased/blind as Lampley.
i personally loved the series there have been so many great HBO bouts they could do like Hopkins vs Taylor or Oscar vs Floyd Manny vs Marquez Klitschko vs Sanders upset Klitschko vs Peter Rahman vs Maskaev Tarver vs Jones
I'd rather see older fights gone over, rather than simply re-living recent fights. Fights from the 70s and 80s.
Gatti v Ward Benn v Eubank Foreman v Moorer Barrera v Morales Muguigan v Pedroza Hagler v Mugabe to mention a few