PBC's greatest weakness is it's weak commentators. Who should be replaced; -First one to be given the boot and replaced is Sugar Ray Leonard. Leonard is one of my favorite boxers but I'm very sad to announce hat his masterful boxing skills do not translate to exciting boxing commentary. His comments sometimes insightful, but very inconsistent and his delivery is often quite boring. To replace SRL, PBC should snatch Barry McGuigan from Sky Sports. -Steve Farhood This dude may be a decent writer but is bad a commentator/****ysts as Harold Lederman. Grab the back of this guy's collar and give him a good kick in the azz out the door. replace him with anyone. No one can be worst. -Al Michaels may be ok with football commentary but he sucks at Boxing and DKSA the sport. I don't know who he knows to have gotten the job, but the two of them should be fired ASAP for lowering the quality of a god thing. He's as bad as using Roc Nation using Sway for Ward's B.E.T. bout with Smith. -The white broad that does the fighter interviews. Throw her out. her only qualifications seem to be that she looks like a **** and DKSAB. Replace her with Leila Ali or some other retired female ex-boxer with personality. -Hans Zimmer, the soundtrack dude. PBC soundtracks are ultra weak and Hans's scoring sounds like they should be for Driving Miss Daisy or Little House On The Prairie than a major boxing network. Bounce this tone deaf clown and replace with Herbie Han**** with a PBC Head Hunter flavored theme. Something with rhythm, energy and POWER.
I don't remember when. Perhaps as a part of a stronger ESPN line up but all I remember is his bad performances.
Disagree. I'm not a fan of the PBC theme but it doesn't sound like the Driving Mrs. Daisy ost. Actually that you bring up Mrs. Daisy, I would point out that Zimmer's theme for that movie is much more similar to a Herbie Han**** tune than what he did for PBC (the bouncing piano melody, upbeat minor sound etc.) it's a fine line with theme tracks I think. For instance if you go with the "Two Steps From Hell" sound then you run the risk of being overwrought, if you go for the opposite then there isn't enough gravity to the broadcast.
The last PBC commentators I remember (and I may be misremembering) sounded awfully broy, like the Bellator comentators. And THOSE guys DO need to go. To be replaced by someone intelligent and not remotely broy.
LOL, NOTHING Zimmer has EVER played has sound even remotely like Herbie Hanc ock. I suggest you take another deeper listening to Ostinato, Watermellon man and/or Chameleon. Hans needs to be given the boot, with a quickness. Replace him with a great more knowledgeable musician like Carlos Santana or Marcus Miller. LOL, even The Roots would be better.:rasta
The fights are much better than the commentary especially when SRL or Al Michaels is on that night. Roc Nation really stunk up the broadcast when they had Sway commentate Ward's fight on B.E.T. IT wasn't a bad idea in trying to bring boxing to a younger B.E.T. audience, but using Sway was as bad a move as Rza made in putting rap music in a Chinese Kung Fu movie, The Man with the iron fists. Just super stupid.
All of the commentators and interviewers need to go. Hire Steve Kim and Ray Mancini to do the color commentary, Mario Lopez to do interviews. David Diamante for ring announcements. Steve Smoger to ref.
Me and IB are going to come up with a demo-reel for the ages. Boxing networks will be knocking our doors down. :smoke
That's right Rummy, you have decades of video production experience and as a video persona. You just need to create a out-of-sight in-fight ****ysis role for IB. Lederman can't keep that gig forever and ever, and ever....
Yah, what I said was: that the theme that Zimmer did for Driving Mrs. Daisy has more in common with a Herbie Han**** track than it does with the theme that Zimmer did for PBC. The shuffling piano, the upbeat but minor melody, the popish sensibilities. Of course there are differences, I wasn't saying they were identical. The PBC theme has more in common with Zimmer's work that he did for Pirates of the Caribbean which has a stronger "march", and a staccato arrangement for the horns/strings. Obviously the producers at the PBC didn't want a party atmosphere to their soundtrack, they wanted something that sells the drama of a fight -- therefore they chose an academy award winning composer.
