Jim Lampley was downright biased and terrible during the fight

I 100% agree though. My point was why was he so biased and off in this fight? Lampley has always been fair to Mayweather...ALWAYS. yet in this fight from the get go he was clearly Ortiz...thsi cannot be denied. I cannot be sure, and I have not seen the fight yet. I do not have HBO anymore. It is going to be difficult to watch fights because I cannot afford to get HBO anymore. A number of guesses come to mind, but as I began to write I thought better of entering that debate because there are simply too many perspectives to consider. I will give mine instead: Floyd is obviously having a tumultuous emotional time in his private life which we had a glimpse of on 24/7 (I caught some of it on youtube) and is succumbing to the pressures and frustrations of his lifestyle and the tensions it brings. It makes him harder to root for in fights.

Lol, yes I remember that exact moment... Me and my brother were like "WHAT?" And didn't he only land like 4 punches that round? I wonder if compubox counted that punch just becuz of wut Lampley said It reminds me of when Martinez and Williams were exchanging, and Williams was clearly out landing him 3-2 but all u heard out of Lampley was "And another right hook, and another left hand, and another right hook, and another 2 left hands, and SERGIO MARTINEZ IS DOING EVERYTHING AND PAUL WILLIAMS IS DOING NOTHING" (paraphrasing of course)

floyd landed a right and he said good left cross by Ortiz that was 2 feet away from landing..lol At ringside, there are no instant replays, everything is in real time. So from one angle it may look like a punch is landing. That said, if someone is watching one fighter for how he does and not the action, he'll only see one guy's work.

this was a tuneup fight designed for Floyd to win Lampley was upping Ortiz to make it look like he was being competitive everytime he looked like he did something right, Lampley played it up you know, so Floyd would get props when he eventually beat him why are Floyd fans whining about this? :laugh: Floyd's an HBO staple, they wanna make him look good

the whole HBO team is biased sometimes. sometimes i don't think they're watching the same fight i'm watching.

I only listen to Steward.

Lampley always goes nuts over missed punches, is an HBO company man, and has a cringeworthy man-crush on Marco Antonio Barrera. Still, HBO Boxing won't be the same when he retires.

Lampley is my favorite commentator in all of sports. But I must admit, he had a bad night with this fight. I think the company sometimes enforce these annoucers to be biased when they have an agenda. I think the agenda was to do all they could to make Ortiz a superstar.But the problem is, Ortiz doesn't know how to be a superstar.

I don't think Lampley is biased. There's been plenty of times when Lampley has put Merchant in his place. I think Lampley is the last honest thing standing on HBO commentary. Steward doesn't have the balls to stand up to Merchant. Lampley does. He's got my respect. This is true and it even happened in that same PPV where he was hyping up Ortiz. Larry Merchant was talking about Floyd's controversial win over Castillo in their first fight. And Jim Lampley followed that by saying, "That was 10 years ago blah blah blah" forgot what he said, but you can tell that was just a "Dude enough already, that was 10 years ago" :lol1:

I never seen a guy so pro fighter. I mean he was going nuts everytime Ortiz landed a punch yet the majority of them missed. Here's a perfect example. Totally biased and delusional. I can't stand Jim Lampley. He is full of contradiction and ridiculousness.

it wasn't just this incident.... I could ask for more examples, but to be honest I'm not that nitpicky and I don't particularly care. I appreciate Lamps energy, and I’m not the type of the fan that needs to be told what it is I’m seeing. Turn the volume down if he bothers you so much.

I think those that reporting seeing Ortiz being competative in the fight where actually hearing the fight rather then seeing. That would explained the Ortiz and Pacfan's skewed perspective views on fights. just click and it'll take you to where i want you to see it

He miscalled a punch... It happens. it wasn't just this incident....

I have seen a lot of Floyd's fights and a lot of Lampley's commentary on those. He is usually quite lavish in his praise of Floyd and his style and skill. Maybe I am missing the nuances, but you showed a very small clip of Jim's remarks about Ortiz as though it is wrong of him to compliment Floyd's opponent. I 100% agree though. My point was why was he so biased and off in this fight? Lampley has always been fair to Mayweather...ALWAYS. yet in this fight from the get go he was clearly Ortiz...thsi cannot be denied.

I never seen a guy so pro fighter. I mean he was going nuts everytime Ortiz landed a punch yet the majority of them missed. Here's a perfect example. I think those that reporting seeing Ortiz being competative in the fight where actually hearing the fight rather then seeing. That would explained the Ortiz and Pac fan's skewed perspective views of fights.

I normally have no issues with Lampey. But his commentary for this fight was downright terrible. It can't go unnoticed. I mean how do you defend the clip I posted? He miscalled a punch... It happens.

Lampley is alright tho hes a funny guy and not a hater imo

I was watching the fight with mostly casual fans who don't know much about boxing and even they were like "huh?" when Lampley was hyping up everything Ortiz was doing. But I love Lampley, he's a very dramatic commentator and I think he brings a lot of excitement to the crew. I would die of boredom listening to the half-asleep Larry Merchant, or the mumbling know-it-all Emmanuel Stewart. Lampley, Kellerman, Jones is the best combination of commentating.

He was very bias towards Martinez in the first PW-Martinez fight. But he still calls a dramatic moment better than anyone in the game.

I never seen a guy so pro fighter. I mean he was going nuts everytime Ortiz landed a punch yet the majority of them missed. Here's a perfect example. floyd landed a right and he said good left cross by Ortiz that was 2 feet away from landing..lol