Who are your favorite commentators ?

Reg Gutteridge is my all time fav, Dunphy was the best US one, Cosell and Lampley were/are just incredibly annoying.

 

I like Gil also. So aware of little things like arms bending more than usual or rust. I like Al Bernstein. Cosell was good as far as excitement, but no about technique. If I were a casual guy who did not love boxing I would like Cosell and Lampley types, but I don't like those types. I like Bernstein and Gil.

 

I found Cosell to be very arrogant.

There were times when he would ask the cornermen questions DURING the fight.

On one occasion he even had the nerve to try to ask Angelo Dundee a question between rounds when Dundee was tending to Ali!!!!!!

I'm pretty certain it was during the Jimmy Young fight.

Cosell's voice also irritated the hell out of me.

 

Cosell definitely makes a fight feel like an event. Not my favorite but I like him. Nostalgia maybe. A Cosell fight feels big to me.

Hard not to go with Tim Ryan & Gil Clancy. Absolute pros. Clancy was the best.

My favorite HBO team was Barry Tomkins, Sugar Ray, & Merchant. Everything about the HBO fights back then was top notch.

I was listening to Chris Schenkel calling an Aaron Pryor fight the other night. I thought he was really underrated. Great voice.

I haven't heard him in years but I always enjoyed Al Bernstein back in the Top Rank Days. He was great during the main fights but equally entertaining when the main event was over & they brought out the 4 round heavyweights. Usually a few laughs there.

 

Sean "The Champ" O'Grady

 

No doubt about it, Cosell was arrogant as hell. He also seemed to misread almost everything that was happening during a fight. I guess his voice was the sound of boxing during the 60s and 70s so if you were American growing up at that time then his voice would bring you back to that time.

 

Ryan and Clancy!!!

 

Anybody but Max Kellerman

 

I agree 100 percent. I was in my teens during that time so I grew up hearing him, but I still disliked his presentation. He always had an agenda, and if what was happening on the screen didn't fit it, he didn't know enough about boxing to recognize that his preconceived notions weren't playing out. He just stuck to his agenda and ignored what was actually happening. Also, the way he turned his back on boxing after he stopped broadcasting fights was reprehensible. For a guy who fed at the trough for so long, he could have shown a little respect. He could have aired his perceived grievances in a more even-handed way.

 

As fighters go I thought Quarry and Norton were pretty darn good; O'Grady too.
Leonard IMHO totally sucked!

 

Always liked Sean!