I just wanna say one thing about ESPN

Obviously Lederman isn't a play-by-play commentator, while Altas is, but they both do unofficial scoring. What I was getting at is that as annoying as Lederman can be, as biased and/or idiotic as his scorecards sometimes are, what we saw from Atlas was far worse. The fact is that we had Atlas blabbering away nearly the entire fight, and essentially jamming his scorecard down your throat. Whereas with Lederman, we only have to deal with his input for about 30 seconds every so often. Atlas was a thousand times worse because he just wouldn't shut up about his scorecard. And just hearing Atlas cry about it after the decision was read was embarassing. I mean he was sitting there at ringside pounding the desk he was sitting on making the camera shake. I've never seen anything like it, it was completely unprofessional. Lederman's never thrown that sort of a temper tantrum even when there's a decision that flies in the face of his scorecard.

 

In Kov Ward 2, for example, he was just giving rounds to Kovalev when Ward was landing the better punches. There was one round in particular that he gave to Kovalev where it was just like WTF, Max said he disagreed, and obviously Roy disagreed as well. Round 4 or Round 5 wasn't it? At times he just gives rounds to somebody for just moving forward regardless of who is landing the cleaner punches.

 

There's plenty of examples, or specific WTF rounds where he just allows one guy to get a big lead when in reality the fight is much closer. And when he explains his card, he acts like it's clear as day that somebody is winning rounds easily when in reality the rounds are very close and could go either way. It's not like it happens all the time, sometimes his cards are OK generally when fights are easy to score. But when you get a hard to score fight, generally he just goes with one guy and just keeps giving rounds to that guy no matter what.

 

Actually I'm not dogging the guy, rather I was saying how much worse Atlas was last night than Lederman usually is. (I said Atlas was so bad he made Lederman seem tolerable in comparison) And I was referring not only to his scorecards, but just in general how distracting his explainations are to watching a fight vs how distracting Atlas was last night.

So I'm not a huge fan of lederman, but like compared to how bad Atlas was last night, he made Lederman seem like a HOF boxing voice like Howard Cosell or something if you get my drift. There have been times where I've disagreed with Lederman's card, been annoyed by his voice, or the way in which he explains his scores which at times seem like he's watching a different fight, but Lederman's never been as bad as Atlas was last night, that was my general point.

 

The amount of crying from SAS after that fight last night was unbelievable. Literally I was just staring at the screen like is this guy serious. He was repeatedly calling the decision bogus and endlessly carrying on about it to no end.