Well Sugar has a high workrate(i.e. talks a lot) but a lot of it is pointless and rubbish. Larry has a low workrate though his work is much cleaner. HBO seem to think Larry is past his prime and favour the rubbish Kellerman over him though I can't see why. Larry still has a lot left in him and can still perform at the top level. Larry by UD and he'd call Max kellerman out after the fight.
I think it's a close battle for a while, but eventually Sugar's bull**** has Merchant speechless for the first time, and Sugar puts his cigar out in Merchant's face.
You've seen that clip on Youtub of Larry lashin' out at that guy who horned in on his post-fight interview with a fighter in the ring, and figured it was totally outta character. He's only a studious, grey-haired little codger who can wax poetic, period. A former print journalist. What gives him the right to act like he's walked-the-walk? He personifies the ol' saying, "There may be snow on the roof but there's plenny-a-fire in chimney." When I was a kid in Brooklyn, Larry, at 140 pounds, was the fiercest defensive back -- a bone-breaking hitter and ballhawk -- on the best high school football team in New York. So good, he was recruited, with the biggest monsters in the country, by coach Bud Wilkenson of Oklahoma, the number one college powerhouse in the nation. A leg injury changed the course of Larry's life. So, though he never trades in on whatta badass he was, like some former jockes need to do, he was the real deal.
[YT]<object width="425" height="344"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/oK2BLeYprfg&hl=en&fs=1"></param><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/oK2BLeYprfg&hl=en&fs=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowfullscreen="true" width="425" height="344"></embed></object>[/YT] Merchant by KO via Choke Slam. :good
