The worst commentating jobs in history?

Lampley in taylor Chavez. Horrible throughout. If you just listend to the fight you would have swore the Chavez didn't land a punch until the 12 th round.

the best was in the 10th I think, where Taylor's eyesocket was already broken and he ws bleeding profusely, Chavez landed two wicked body shots, Lampley was silent. Taylor land three to Chavez's head and Lampley started screamoing about how great Taylor was, then Chavez feinted to Taylor's body and Taylor's arms dropped and then he landed a HUGE combo to Taylors head.

A great exhibition of boxing, and Lampley's call?


CHAVEZ HAS BEEN REDUCED TO HEADHUNTING!!!!


Horrible.

Keith

 

I don't know which it is but I know it was done by Foreman.

 

Probably the most gross miscariage of a whole announcing teams callijng of a fight I've ever witnessed.:-(

If you were to go by what HBO's call of that fight was, they actually had many viewers believing Taylor was shuting Chavez out on the Cards.

The HBO announced that fight as if Taylor was putting on a boxing clinic and Chavez was a headhunter not being able to find Taylor........

......and yet going into the late rounds, Chavez face was clean, and Taylor's face looked as if it had been put through a meat grinder.
Taylor's face was a swollen bloody mess, the results of Chavez' repeated just viciiousl straight rights landing between Taylor's arm shot flurries......
......not to mention the numerous internal injuries to Taylor's body organs that were later determined at Taylor's multi-day stay at the hospital.

One of the doctors at the Hospital would later say that Taylor's condition after the fight was the worst he'd seen a fighter brought into the hospital still concious.



What a joke of a broadcast call. The worst call of a fight in boxing history imo.

 

When your bias begins to impact your PROFESSIONALISM, then it's a problem.

That's the beef with Merchant.

 

there isn't a rule about commentators being biased.

 

Did you read the PROFESSIONALISM part of my post? I put in bold for you again.

 

I think the play by play/blow by blow announcer guy has more pressure of being unbiased and simply describing what he's seeing in the ring.

He is the eyes of the audience, if it was radio.

His partner, the color commentator has a bit more leeway to be a little biased, because he's relying more on his opinions and his past experiences of watching a boxing match.

 

doesn't change anything.

p.s i see no bold.

 

Merchant is a consumate professional. He always explains why he doesn't like fighters, but he never criticises them unfairly. This sounds like Mayweather fans crying, but Larry only criticises how he "sucks the drama out of fights" - which is true. He's always credited him for his sublime skills.

People don't understand the difference between informed criticism and clueless cheerleading.

 

Amen.

 

Two come to mind, problem is I couldn't tell you the names of either of the commentators.

First one was in an RJJ fight in the build up to Toney shown own Eurosport. The guy was basically saying RJJ was a hype job who wouldn't go very far.

The other was for Hamed-Kelley, the American commentator was so biased that when Hamed knocked Kelley down, he didn't say anything for about 15 seconds afterwards.

 

Big George screaming "HE BROKE HIS LEG, IT's OVER!" when Lennox Lewis floored Michael Grant.

 

Your description of the play-by-play is correct. His job is to describe the 'what' of the current fight.

The color commentator's primary job is to describe 'why' things are happening in the fight.

Which leads to a simple question: How often have you as a fan learned anything about the 'why' of the fight going on or even about boxing itself from Larry Merchant's color commentary? How often has Lary Merchant offered you any type of useful analysis about the fight you were watching?

 

Caps.

Thank you for the correction.

The point still stands.

 

A play by play/commentator isnt really that important when watching a boxing match on TV.

I think it's now just the tradition of hearing Lampley's play by play calls, and Merchant's insights and commentary, that make the viewer feel right at home and make them feel like it's a proper broadcast.

Makes it feel like a real, big time fight.

Anyway, where I'm from, the original voice of world boxing (up to now) are Colonel Bob Sheridan and/or Dave Bontempo, not the HBO guys.