Jim Lampley is back on commentary for Saturday’s Ring show in New York.
The former HBO commentator Lampley will be calling the shots at the Louis Armstrong tennis stadium in the Flushing Meadow section of Queens when Hamzah Sheeraz moves up to super middleweight to face Edgar Berlanga and WBC lightweight champion Shakur Stevenson takes on William Zepeda.
Lampley, a 2014 International Boxing Hall of Fame inductee, returned to boxing as blow-by-blow announcer for the previous Ring show at Times Square in May, on a bill that saw Ryan Garcia lose to Rolly Romero, Devin Haney win a tepid contest against Jose Ramirez, while Teofimo Lopez defeated Arnold Barboza.
Lampley was a guest on The Joe Rogan Podcast this week, talking about his decorated career in boxing, and he said he hoped to get the call for the September Netflix show in Las Vegas topped by Saul “Canelo” Alvarez vs. Terence Crawford, which heralds the return of his former HBO broadcast colleague Max Kellerman to boxing.
Lampley revealed a recent conversation with his 94-year-old former HBO cohort Larry Merchant to Rogan, talking all things Canelo-Crawford and, comparing the fight to Marvin Hagler-Sugar Ray Leonard, Merchant told Lampley that Crawford could win.
“Same equation; get in, get out, get in, get out. Over and over and over,” said Lampley.
