Just Watched Hopkins/Trinidad Again

kirk · Apr 24, 2015

Ducklerr said: ↑

Might be the most biased commentating I've ever seen from the HBO crew, except Merchant. Lampley is doing the usual "AND NOW TRINIDAD IS UNLOADING, FOUR HUGE LEFT HOOKS IN A ROW". Merchant responds, "All of those punches were blocked by Hopkins". Felix keeps throwing and missing with bombs and B Hop catches him clean over and over again. Literally not a single mention of a Hopkins shot in the whole round except for a passing "Hopkins tries to asnwer back with the right hand". George keeps talking about how B Hop is fighting the wrong fight when he's up 6-0 of 5-1 on any reasonable person's scorecard. Lederman (who I generally don't mind but has a bias for fighters who push the action IMO) scores the round to Trinidad.

I don't hate Lampley or George and think they generally added a lot of atmosphere. But oh boy, when they get it wrong they get it wrong in a big way. They have the same pattern every time their man is losing a fight. Call it like its closer than it is for 8 rounds until they finally start giving the other fighter respect in rounds 9-12. And of course, if the man getting waxed 11 rounds to none going into the 12th is a power puncher then George never fails to remind us that he's a dangerous 'wounded bear' or something.
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:good Perfectly put.

I do like Jim, but like you said... when hes being biased he goes full steam ahead into bull****ville.

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