It's about time HBO put Lampley out to pasture

He didn't used to be like that, I think that's the main reason they got rid of him. The Floyd confrontation was just the tipping point.
His 'wit' was what got him there in the first place. It was actually a little sad in his later years when you could hear him struggling to put his metaphors and analogies together to the point that you could sense the other commentators wanting to talk over him cause the point he was making wasn't worth the time it took him to spit it out.

 

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Dam! You making sense. That scares me. I know you don't care for Hopkins but you respect boxing enough to check the bull****.

 

Isn't Lampley the 'Play by Play' member of the team? Colour commentary is all about insight and opinion ie the fighter (Roy) or the storyteller (Merchant). That's why Merchant's post fight interview were so often tense, he has to tell the fighter exactly what he thinks of their performance, like asking Bernard if he felt ashamed about the level of opposition he was facing after one of his MW defenses.

 

As if Hops respects anyone. :roll:

 

more bitching about HBO commentators
news flash.... they are human and there is no rule against who they talk about more or favor.
HBO , a billion dollar company doesnt give 2 shi.ts about message board nerds calling for programming changes. just shut up already

 

Didn't watch it on HBO, but I remember Lampley as being a great commentator. Kellerman as the reporter, on the other hand often shows very much bias and very little knowledge. Other than Kellerman (and Merchant from time to time in his day), HBO has a very good team.

As for Showtime, Al Bernstein usually does fair job, but he's sometimes just awful. However SHO has a solid team overall. Jim Gray is just world class.

Atlas on ESPN is probably one of the worst boxing commentators.

 

Delete. Got confused there.

 

Thats where you're wrong.
Knowledgeable boxing fans would like to hear and watch an unbiased broadcast, but the reality is that Lampley gets paid to depict and drive the HBO house agenda home. To the detriment of the knowledgeable fan, Lampley does a great job at it.

 

Sadly :deal

Disgusting to hear when it's your favourite fighter getting shafted by the agenda, these biased morons sound best on mute

 

Lampley consistently lies to the boxing public to serve his own agenda. In the Pac vs Algieri promo he said that Pac was the p4p king and in his series The Fight Game he listed Ward as one of many fighter that were afraid to challenge Trip G. Casual fans have a tendency to believe what the commentators are saying and statements like that can have an effect on how they view a particular fighter and how they spend their money to some extent. He embellishes average fights and goes hog wild and squeals like a ***** on good fights. He's a master of the overkill. I don't even listen to him anymore.

 

A great job by Lampley. Hopkins isn't exactly the most professional of people in the sport. In fact, he has shown over and over again to be an a$$.

I am glad he is now out of the picture, and a new Champ has taken helm.

 

**** those ****ing *******s at HBO, every ****ing one of them!

Yep, even though I know its the agenda thats being ridden home, every once in awhile those *******s really get under my skin.:fire