So there's this article in badlefthook lambasting Gus Johnson's awful performance during the Salido-Lopez II fight, with most posters just agreeing with it.
Then someone narrates this story:
"Still, the enthusiasm might be misplaced or feel artificial to viewers, but i remember a press photo of salido-lopez I from right after the ref stopped the fight, and salido’s running to celebrate, and in the background you can see all the press people still seated, including the showtime crew, except gus is standing, screaming, with his hands on his head as if he just won the lottery or something—just hysterical, near-tears glee. i mean, there weren’t any showtime cameras on him or anything; he wasn’t mugging for viewers. dude was seriously that excited."
:lol1::lol1:
the mental image alone is already hilarious. though i do now feel guilty for mocking his commentary during the fight. he's probably just a casual, easily excitable boxing fan who's handed a mic for showtime's boxing shows since he calls other sports pretty decently.
http://cdn2.sbnation.com/fan_shot_images/189418/lopez-salido-photo2.jpg
i'm expecting to be handsomely rewarded
Gus Johnson is the f*cking man. F*ck who ever doesn't like him.
Attention who ever doesn't like him: Go suck a d*ck.
Gus is a look at me, self promoting clown of an announcer, who rarely does homework on the fighters and relies solely on Al Bernstein to bring anything intelligent to the conversation.
i think he's more suited for basketball, he seems out of place out there. Generally, when a match is exciting, no one hears the TV announcer because we're all up and screaming anyway at what's actually going on, not what Gus is hollering
cant stand clowns who always try to be the "center of attention"
gus johnson makes the fight 10 times better, he goes crazy. but i guess people would rather listen to some boring bland monotone announcer.
NUTZZZZZZZ andddddddddd GUTZZZ!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
"And back comes Juanma!!! it's heating up over here in P.R. !!!"
The article is in here: http://tinyurl.com/7dfy4qg
and I'm surprised with the support for Gus in here; many boxing writers like Eric Raskin and Tim Starks occasionally make fun of his commentary, and I come across threads bashing him (just like in that thread above) quite frequently.
I think he's a pretty exciting commentator, too, but he can be quite distracting when he inserts terribly unnecessary drama into fights (as is Lampley) and when he gets excited because! he! pauses! at! all! the! wrong! times! LOL
This story and that pic changed how I look at him. The dude is just too excitable and enthusiastic (like us here) for all those dramatics to be just stuff his boss tells him he must do.
http://s3.amazonaws.com/data.tumblr.com/tumblr_m0wcj75xYm1qdsykio1_1280.jpg
LMAOOOOO!!
i'm expecting to be handsomely rewarded
Thank you for making my day, kind sir; I don't really use the karma function of this site too much, is clicking on Karma and saying "I approve" enough?
I love Gus. He brings excitement. Also he is never bias which I also like about him. He doesn't root for anyone unlike HBO's team who plays favourites.Ditto. He brings excitement and seems like he really is enjoying the sport
I don't see anything wrong with Gus's commentary, I mean he doesn't have a Jim Lampley voice, or a Max Kellermen style insight box, but he's the standard announcer who calls the action appropriately I think.
What was so bad about his commentary?
I haven't seen the Showtime coverage.
nothing wrong with it in my opinion. he's not the most knowledgable boxing guy on the planet but thats certainly not getting in the way of a decent job done in my opinion.
i'm convinced at this stage that the guy just loves his job. nothing wrong with that. he gets excited
I love Gus. He brings excitement. Also he is never bias which I also like about him. He doesn't root for anyone unlike HBO's team who plays favourites.