Teddy Atlas is the worst boxing commentator/analyst in boxing.

His commentaries are invariably boring, negative, and disgusting. I had to turn off the sound today not to listen to this prick. Plus, he is an extraordinarily ****ty expert. He picked Jones to beat Calzage, and he picked every oponent of Vitaly and Wlad to beat them (Peter, Thompson etc.)... I am sure the list of his ****ty predictions is much longer than this. I hope he gets fired. I really do. cosign on that bro!

Atlas is annoying and I can understand people disliking him, HOWEVER I think you have to say Larry Merchant is by far the worst commentator/analyst in boxing. He has his own personal agenda against fighters, Floyd Mayweather has had about 20+ fights on HBO. Iv'e seen at least half of them and I can't remember Larry giving him credit for anything. He criticises him in almost every fight, Even though he keeps winning and winning and winning.... "He'll out box you, he'll out brawl you, he'll outpunch you" "This gives you some idea of the versatility of Floyd Mayweather" I can remember those two for sure. Larry is old school man. He doesn't like the whole 'Money' thing...

Well hes right about that. You must be a khan dick sucker. No I'm just a realist. Paulie is a good fighter whose very game but only a malignaggi hugger would say something like you and Atlas said.

Atlas is annoying and I can understand people disliking him, HOWEVER I think you have to say Larry Merchant is by far the worst commentator/analyst in boxing. He has his own personal agenda against fighters, Floyd Mayweather has had about 20+ fights on HBO. Iv'e seen at least half of them and I can't remember Larry giving him credit for anything. He criticises him in almost every fight, Even though he keeps winning and winning and winning....

that guy turns off alot of fans with all the negative stuff that comes out of his mouth. I can't stand listening to his biases too.

I believe he said last night that "Paulie Malignaggi is one of the best things to ever happen to boxing." I proceeded burst out laughing and then muted Friday Night Fights. Well hes right about that. You must be a khan dick sucker.

I believe he said last night that "Paulie Malignaggi is one of the best things to ever happen to boxing." I proceeded burst out laughing and then muted Friday Night Fights.

Only thing I don't like about atlas is he is too negative. he always puts other boxers down. Like last night on friday night fights, he was tearing everyone to pieces saying they aren't very good and won't make it to the top. BTW I like the klitchkos but they are very boring fighters both inside and out of the ring. Nobody will ever care about european fighters because they almost always suck.

He wrote a good book. He dedicated his book to his friend an heroin dealer. Keep it classy Teddy.

wait a second...did he really pick Gomez to win? He knows his on to something here. He picks a guy, then bets a ton on the other... Teddy has become the richest man in 2009

I like it far more now than before, because the world champions today really are world champions, not just American champions. Boxing has become more of an international sport than ever before. Of Course an American is going to want/love an american champ. As any country would. Lewis was respected/loved because he was able to eventually prove himself to the public by beating a slew of decent competition, his country/continent of origin didn't matter, in fact 1/2 the people can't figure out where he is actually from. The Problem is there are only a few competitive fights out there, and no one is taking them, and don't say valuev will be competitive, his record shows how protected he his, and we won't get a Vitali vs Wlad (which is understandable, can't expect two brothers to fight for our entertainment, although it would be lucrative for them) The comentators just call it like they see it, and if you don't see anything good well no sense in lying to the public.

Don't kid yourself. It won't be competitive, Wlad will easily beat Haye. Even if that happens, there is some excitement because haye is making it interesting with his antics, there is a storyline here, a reason to be motivated to watch it, i dont even care who wins, but it will be interesting. Meanwhile, all these other fights dont mean sh!t to me, theyre boring, and seem meaningless in this merrygoround of fights that lead to long layoffs for champions, or fights against contenders no one cares to see fight.

The HW division discredits itself just fine, the fights are boring often times mismatches that bring next to no excitement whatsoever, none of the heavyweights other than haye have any crossover charisma, its just boring as hell. The only fight im looking foward too is david haye/wlad, because it will be competitive. Don't kid yourself. It won't be competitive, Wlad will easily beat Haye.

wait a second...did he really pick Gomez to win?

Unifying the division? Vitali called out Valuev after the fight. The negative public perception of the heavyweight division is influenced by people like Teddy Atlas who hate to see the top heavyweights being Europeans. Until an African-American come along and wins a world title or two, people like Atlas will say the division is poor, and discredit the Klitschkos or any other Europeans who hold titles. And sadly, all the silly sheeple who believe what he says (and other commentators say), will follow along with his bad opinion of the heavyweight division. I like it far more now than before, because the world champions today really are world champions, not just American champions. Boxing has become more of an international sport than ever before. The HW division discredits itself just fine, the fights are boring often times mismatches that bring next to no excitement whatsoever, none of the heavyweights other than haye have any crossover charisma, its just boring as hell. The only fight im looking foward too is david haye/wlad, because it will be competitive.

I think Teddy Atlas, along with a few other negative, boring commentators, is hurting the popularity of boxing. I don't think the commentators are hurting boxing as much as the heavyweight division is, Champions that have no interest in unifying the titles, and no competition for them to prove themselves against. (and when someone comes up as a possible challenge, it never works out) The popularity of boxing amongst the casual fan lives and dies in the heavyweight division. If you think of the great years of boxing (where the casual fans enjoyed and were somewhat informed... at least knew who the champions were) there was always a star at heavyweight. Theres a mystique to the heavyweight belt, for instance, WWF used the "heavyweight championship of the world" as its big Wrestlemania draw for years, although there were no other divisions, and everyone always respected the HWChamp over the Intercontinental (viewed as a slightly inferior belt) talking more the 80-90s of WWF - But back to boxing commentators. They all suck at some point, and then other times you learn to love them. Teddy Atlas was the only thing worth watching in the olympics boxing. Teddy also grows on you, i hated him for a long time, until i created the Teddy Atlas drinking game, (Take a shot whenever he uses a topical analogy an example would be if its saint patricks day and he keeps saying "He's got to move like a leprachan") any time he states the obvious "he's got to learn how not to get hit" Any time he says something Kung-fu Grandmaster-ish "before you can truely win, you must first learn to lose" Make up some of your own people its fun, and you'll learn to love atlas. Max Kellerman sucks, big time, he's nervous, too stiff, bias (in a non bias way if that makes sense?) but I like him now, he grew on me. Same with lampley, merchant. You just have to learn to enjoy their quirks. I've always enjoyed pappa and tesatore, they just sound good, reguardless of what they're calling. I LOVE LEDERMAN though "OK JIM!" Only guy i really don't care for is dude with ugly mustache

He's annoyingly biased, its really blatent too, like he doesnt give a shite whether we pick up on it or not. I'll admit he knows a shitload more about boxing then I do but I really dont like the man.

change it to box azteca and u will hear raul marquez

Not to mention his shit at picking winners

Atlas did another atrocious job on this fight. It wouldn't bother me as much if he didn't really know anything. He is just plain biased.