I wish mayweather-canelo was on HBO

I prefer HBO also.

 

So ****ing care, just as long the fight is happening ***** bait!!!

Hbo in 3-4 years will be nothing for the sport of boxing.

 

I'll take Jim Lampley's enthusiastic and passionate commentating over a logical and calm guy anyday. Fights are remembered with Jim Lampley type commentating.

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In terms of actual networks I don't care. Bernstein and Malignaggi have good scorecards whereas Lederman is a little off sometimes. Merchant is boring and dead since he's so old. Malignagi is basically the same as the other boxers who are now commentators.

 

The colour of the ring ropes? What the ****. You must be an HBO nostalgia ***.

 

I think you guys just miss old drunk Larry merchant..

 

at least you don't have to put up with Steve ' The Geezer' Bunce like we do in the UK, he may know his stuff but hes flucking irritating. I also hope they keep Ricky Hatton away from this one he finds it impossible to get anybodys name right

 

HBO = 1,000x better than SHO... u may be right about HBO being nothing in 3-4 yrs, that's exactly one reason why boxing will probably be a lot less relevant as a sport in that same time frame!!

 

Bunce is exactly the kind of guy you need to push you through till 4-6AM, he either gets on your tits therefore angers you or you find him hilarious, either way you're not going bed.

Main thing I notice about the switch to showtime is the lack of Buffer.

 

I'll take Lamps misguided cheerleading over the boring **** from Showtime.

The job is to take the action in the ring and make it even bigger... HBO does that.. Showtime does it worse... and ESPN and Teddy Atlas do a disservice to the sport by actually making the action be diminished by the **** commentating.

 

Lampley is certainly much better than the Showtime play-by-play announcer, who is one of these WWE-type announcers.

But Showtime has a BIG advantage in having the best color commentator in Al Bernstein, who is light-years better than that unqualified twerp Max Kellerman.

 

:deal

 

Back around December I made a choice to either subecribe to Showtime or to HBO.

I went with Showtime for a few reasons:

1) More fights more frequently

2) More replays -- Showtime shows fights over and over, HBO banks them after usually one or at most two replays (often on Sunday morning)

3) Showtime's roster of fighters seems to be getting better and better, especially now with the exclusive GBP arrangement.

HBO gets a few more of the big event fights, but not enough to make up the difference for the volume I get with Showtime.

I don't care if they let trained chimps call the fight, I just don't get into the commentary that much, but I will agree that a pro like Al Bernstein is light-years ahead of a please-listen-to-me wannabe like Max Kellerman.

 

Disagree completely with this. I'll take Bernstein's disbelieving chuckle during a heated exchange over Lampley's OTT histrionics any day of the week...and twice on Sunday. Sometimes, less is more, and simply stopping and saying "Wow" when two fighters are beating the holy hell out of one another works better than a series of overly descriptive meanderings.