For the most part boxers always make better commentators than analysts do. That's not to say all commentators should be ex-boxers, because many have tried it over the years and quite simply sucked at it, like Tyson and Foreman. However guys like Jones, Tarver, and Hopkins (on FNF) make excellent commentators and have much more depth to their comments than angry old men like Merchant and trainers who somehow always claim to have known the result was coming like Steward.
George Foreman was hands down HBO's absolute worst commentator of all time, though. How the hell he managed to call (badly, at that) so many big fights is beyond me. He'd pretty much sh*t on anybody who wasn't a come forward brawler or a guy with a big punch.
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