Why did Foreman leave/got fired by HBO?

no idea i love to see him back or roy jones anyone emanuel stweard the master of the flip flop

 

i agree 100%, I think RJ was the best analyst they had to date IMO. He could tell exactly what was happening and he predicted what was going to ahppen be4 they even happened. They need to bring RJ back

 

i agree 100%, I think RJ was the best analyst they had to date IMO. He could tell exactly what was happening and he predicted what was going to ahppen be4 they even happened. They need to bring RJ back

 

Steward bugs me with his wishy-washy bull****. Before the fight: "both of these guys are such great fighters, it will be a great matchup". After the fight: "I knew (insert winning fighter) was going to take this fight all the way. He does (insert all the things he did right) perfectly". What a joke

 

Foreman said it was to spend more time at home....I read elsewhere that it was a contract dispute or something.

I miss his bizarre, hilarious comments.

 

I thought Foreman left HBO because he wanted to spend more time with his family, or maybe it was the fact that he and Merchant seemed to get into heated arguements on air at times, either way I liked Foreman, and thought he was better than Lewis or Jones.

 

His Grill got too big for him to stay with HBO - then he's pants got Big and Tall. Too many deals going on with this guy - he's selling his name everywhere.

 

I loved when Foreman was on there. He was like a "country Grand Dad" sounding dude on it. I believe it was Mayweather vs Chico (RIP) where he said about Mayweather: "It's like playing with a cobra in there". LOL.

 

Foreman was decent but Roy Jones is the man they need to bring back. His insight was unmatched.

 

Big George left to spend time with his family. It had nothing to do with a dispute or him being fired. He now has a show coming out with his family. Dude has like 6 sons all named George. The guy wouldnt be going round with HBO over anything being that he was netting 4.5 million per month from the Foreman Grill and other products. George is by far the greatest business man to ever climb out of the ring.

 

Foreman left because of family blah blah...

The truth is: they told him he's not the man they want anymore after he said this:

George: It's terrible! This is terrible!
Jim: Say it loud, George!
George: this it terrible. This is not what you want boxing to be. De La Hoya won that fight. Won it to the end.
Jim: Frankly I agree with you. So does Harold Lederman and you heard what Larry Merchant said before...
George: when I heard the scores I turned to Harold Lederman to say: I have the same scores, you're right, and they change the man. IMPOSSIBLE! IMPOSSIBLE!

 

Yeah your right, and you know this because you were sitting in the room when they told him, right. It had nothing to do with the fact that Foreman had made it clear that he was going to the end of the road almost a year before he did his last fight.

 

I really like Forman. He had such a pleasant personality. He was also good at talking about what it is like to be in a fight. But I have never seen an “expert” commentator that so often had no idea what was going on in an actual fight. Like man some of the things he would say sometimes would make absolutely no sense. Sometimes it was like "buddy what fight are you watching". I think the worse was the Hopkins Tito fight were the whole fight he kept saying that Hopkins was fighting the wrong fight and that Tito was going to catch him, right up until the second Tito got knocked out. It was brutal. That’s why him and Larry got into so many arguments because he would talk out of his ass while on air. In the end though I was sad to see him leave because

Roy Jones was an amazing expert commentator. Always knew exactly what was going on in the ring.

 

Sorry to be ignorant, but who was De La Hoya's opponent that night?? Thanks.