Larry Merchant is unfair...

I beleive commentators have favorite fighters. Some usually give the play by in favor of their fighter. Try watching a boxing match with a spanish commentator. The commentator will cheer for the spanish fighter of course, just like on the Raheem vs. Morales fight. HBO latino commentator had Morales winning.

:smashfrea Of course not moron, :alcoholic :duh: you're an idiot... :gives:

i know you just did not say your roy jones jr lmao

jesus is there like a depression in boxing now adays? so many former and current pro fighters just doing nothing but hanging out at boxingscene day to day shooting the breeze about the one fight they had that nobodys ever heard ...are you on boxrec? some kinda record or something a photo of you holding a boxing glove something?!?!? i mean shit everybodys a god damn pro around here Actually I do, but I totally agree, what would you care, I know I don't give a shit about who you are either so that would make sense. My comment was only to stress the fact that many people who have at least some "real" knowledge of boxing don't enjoy watching Larry try to make an ass outta a champion. And many respectable boxing people have even told him to his face on camera. So I am not gonna send you a pic of Roy Jones jr and it's ok, you can go back to jerking off to Larry Merchant now...

jesus is there like a depression in boxing now adays? so many former and current pro fighters just doing nothing but hanging out at boxingscene day to day shooting the breeze about the one fight they had that nobodys ever heard ...are you on boxrec? some kinda record or something a photo of you holding a boxing glove something?!?!? i mean shit everybodys a god damn pro around here

I think HBO cryogenically freezes Merchant after every fight, and when its fight night again they de-thaw him. This is my theory as to why it takes the muthafucka 45 minutes to complete a sentence. Ahahahahhahahhahahahhaha !!! That and he has to keep pullin his head outta his ass to be picked up by the mic...

I think HBO cryogenically freezes Merchant after every fight, and when its fight night again they de-thaw him. This is my theory as to why it takes the muthafucka 45 minutes to complete a sentence.

Larry Merchant is the second reason why I purchase PPV. He is the best commentator ever. Judah/Mayweather fight- he said this "Judah has a mouth full of diamonds,...... but its too bad they are in a glass setting" LOLOLOLOLOL

I like Lampley and Steward, but I have noticed he does kind of sound disrespectul or mean to certain fighters sometimes. I don't think he is a racist though.

Oh yeah and look at how many posts I've done and how many points I have (not that it's a tonne), then do the same for the guy who made that last post biggin up Larry cuz it's his job. The President of the biggest (most powerful) country in the world wasn't even elected by the people in his first term and he still has a job, who are you kidding...?

larry merchant does what he does because thats his fucking job what do you guys want him to do go be a fan boy to who ever comes into the ring like lewis and rjj? forget that the man is paid to watch fights and learn fundamentals not be a boxer ....if he was a boxer we'd be calling him leaping larry merchant or something like that but hes not a fighter... and yall bitch and cus about getting sick of people who sound like arm chair experts HA! thats all boxing sites are full of these days..arm chair types Actually I used to be a boxer (as was my dad and grandfather) and recently starting doin' ring announcing and even a lil commentary myself, and I help produce local fights to try and build this sport up again (So I I kinda know what I am talkin about since I was raised around boxin). If you took your head outta you ass long enough to read what I said, or long enough to actually watch a fight, you'd see 9 times outta 10 the guy "Merchant" has no clue. I'd prefer someone who knows and understands the sweet science to be doing the color commentary rather than a fool with a big mouth. I gave a few examples of people that have done a great job. Even take Max, the kid couldn't fight his way outta a wet paper bag with a hole in it, but he understands the sport and doesn't make unnecessary racist or derogatory comments towards athletes with more commitment to their craft than Larry could dream of attaining. (I don't know who he is blowing to keep his job but no matter how you look at it LARRY SUX)

larry merchant does what he does because thats his fucking job what do you guys want him to do go be a fan boy to who ever comes into the ring like lewis and rjj? forget that the man is paid to watch fights and learn fundamentals not be a boxer ....if he was a boxer we'd be calling him leaping larry merchant or something like that but hes not a fighter... and yall bitch and cus about getting sick of people who sound like arm chair experts HA! thats all boxing sites are full of these days..arm chair types

larry merchant is a fucking drunken retard.

Larry Merchant SUX. George Forman hit the nail on the head when he asked Larry how many fights he had, or how many times he has actually boxed inside a ring... Larry's response was something like, well I have watched tonnes of fights dating back to .... Who cares what you've seen, there are hundreds of thousands of people that have watched tonnes of fights. I can't stand listening to a guy tell me about the fundamentals of a sport that he really doesn't even understand, and then I have to watch him get into the ring and grill fighters on their performance too. Sure he does ask the "hard questions", but anyone can do that. The guy has no talent, no clue about the sweet science of boxing, and I shouldn't have to pay to hear a fool run his mouth about something he doesn't even undertand (but thinks he does; yeah and like I could tell Babe Ruth how he should have hit a fuckin' fast ball! Then try and sell it to a baseball fan on PPV, it wouldn't happen). Take Teddy Atlas or any other trainer, or take Lennox Lewis, who (although he needs a lil work on his presentation of words), was awesome in breaking down the Judah Mayweather Fight, (I especially liked how he was able to comment on the right hand left hook combos which; (not to take anything from the p4p best alive, but I felt that Mayweather could have used the same combo even more often to get the KO he wanted by the end of the fight). Thats what I like to listen to when I watch boxing, ESPECIALLY ON PPV (when Larry starts babbling I usually press mute and just watch). I say FIRE MERCHANT and bring in big George or Roy or Lennox full time. Jim Lampley and Manny are awesome and Lampley leaves the science to the fighters and makes great comments on what he actually sees. As for Merchant, next time he goes off on a bullshit tantrum about something he has no real clue about he should go off the air for good.

go to the end of tito bhop when foreman is on a total ride job of titos nuts trying to make tito out to be something hes not ... larry clearly asks forman why he isnt giving bhop the credit he deserves... i dunno about yall but every time i see larry and hopkins together it always seems like larry gives him critisim and hopkins listens intentivitly ...if you recall he was going through pure bums untill larry said that then he went through joppy eastman delahoya and then fought taylor .... they dont hate eachother just sometimes hopkins makes bad choices and larry tells him about it only hopkins listens to him

Larry Merchant is not a racist...he is however am irritating egomaniac! I keep waiting for Moe and Larry to join him on tv.

I know who you are talking about. I like Larry Merchant too. I think he is fair.

Larry is just an old drunk guy and he isn't hurting anyone. I think he's pretty funny the way he sometimes makes things all philisophical. I think he was interviewing Vitali one time and said something like Vitali was the snake in the grass and somebody was the mongoose in the field, then Vitali paused for a minute and went "He fight hard. I win." I remember after one fight they were talking about an upcomming fight and Larry went into this story about 2 cowboys riding on an airplane and one asked the other where they were going and he said "To Hell in a handbasket if we don't mend our wicked ways". Dunno what that has to do with boxing but it was funny. damn lush

larry has an ego problem,plain and simple. he also has a grudge with hopkins no doubt about that. i think he's got a problem with hopkins cause he says what's on his mind. same as larry.but i've seen larry be a dick to others too. i think that if it's not an hbo fighter, or they don't do what HE expects them to do in the ring, then he gives them zero credit.....he did stick up for hopkins in the trinidad fight, when foreman was talking all sorts of trash on how hard tito punches and how great of a boxer he is. but he was sticking up for hopkins when it was obvious that trinidad was getting his ass handed to him. also he always goes to war with foreman enless they are talking about dlh or rjj. plus larry is a drunk, a known drunk, for years... i've seen him at the bar a couple of times in vegas at the mandalay. maybe thats why he is prick in most of his interviews...and one last thing alot of boxers try to control the interview and when it's your job to do the interview, that can get annoying.... i think that since the fighters are willing to put their life on the line for our entertainment and his job i think that they should be able to say something to family and friends, and he should be a little more nice to them cause if there wasn't boxing larry wouldn't have that nice cushy job...drunk prick....he has my dream job, him and lampley..

i dont think he is racist, just didnt like the fact that Hopkins did not press the fight early. Yeah he is not racisthe is just a De La hoya Fan!!!