Should Sean O'Grady be in the IBHOF...as an announcer?

I do not think so and I really like Sean but if I am being honest he was lacking as an announcer to put him in the HOF.
Put it this way I thought Sean was a much better announcer then a Kellerman but nowhere near like a Gil Clancy or Al Bernstien.
Speaking about Sean he clearly got robbed against Jim Watt and I really liked Watt's story but he cheated vs Sean.

 

Yes …I loved Tuesday Night Fights …he gets my vote

 

Nobody is better than Gil Clancy

 

As a fighter I thought he had the most first round knockouts in history ( albeit against questionable opponents. ) as a commentator he had a great career . If we combine his two careers I think it amounts to a fairly influential presence in boxing and may warrant a spot in the HOF

 

I don't think so. O'Grady had an amiable personality and was relatively knowledgeable and well spoken. However, he was, what I call, a situational announcer. His comments were often based on what happened in the fight. I know that sounds like what an announcer is supposed to do so let me explain.

I don't remember the fighters involved but an up and coming boxer was going up against an experienced man who had achieved a fair amount of success. In the first round the young boxer came out of his corner like a whirlwind. He rained blow after blow on the vet. Some punches were blocked, some weren't. Anyway, the young guy pretty much punched himself out. He had nothing left and in a few rounds the older man put the young guy on his butt for the 10-count. After the fight O'Grady talked about how a veteran boxer knows that you're in the fight for the long haul and you don't come out and try and stop your opponent right away.

About three weeks later the main event featured a similar matchup, with a young hotshot going up against a slightly past his prime good boxer. The bell rings and from the start the older boxer jumped all over the young guy and after a half minute of hard blows he caught the hotshot and stopped him. In his post fight comments Sean said that an experienced fighter knows a young guy might be nervous and the right thing to do is jump on him before he has a chance to get his bearings. Pretty much the opposite of what he said a few weeks prior.

After that I started paying more attention to O'Grady and this was the kind of thing he did often. For me, that's the kind of thing a Hall of Fame announcer doesn't do.

 

I’d like to see the Bubblegum Kid in there and I think his overall contributions to the sport — as a fighter and then as an announcer, spanning decades — is worthy of a spot.

I haven’t looked to see if Don Dunphy is in there, but if @Fogger thinks Sean lacked insight find me one thing that Dunphy ever said that shed any light on a fight beyond ‘a left … and a right … and a left.’ Literally he just told you (over and over) that one guy just hit the other guy, lol.