According to Kevin Iole, this Saturday will be Larry Merchant's last cast

An end to a era. Happy trails Larry, you will be missed. Pretty nice guy, my dad was at Dodgers stadium and met Larry, Larry took time out to talk to my dad about boxing even though the game was over. Nice guy all around. Sidenote, I actually like Max, Roy, Bob, but Jim not so much. Jim has always had a nuthugging bias towards his HBO fighters..ODLH, PacMan etc. When will his time be up?

Actually I gotta give it up to Paulie as a commentator. I think he's a sh*t boxer but he's actually a pretty good commentator/analyst.

They need to hire paulie malignaggi!

Hope RJJ can be hired on a full time basis.

His time is up but no doubt he will be missed His interviews after the Pacquiao Marquez fight Saturday were pathetic Never afraid to speak his mind tho so fair play to him

What about Brian Sutherland as a replacement?

He wasn't fine. He has become so cynical and jaded that most of the things he said were negative. Not to mention he seemed like he was drunk during some of the telecasts. Well you know Lampley is very positive (often unduely so) so it balances out. I always saw Larry as a realist who didn't buy hype or nuthug on the fighters, I hope we don't get another crawler in his place.

He is great the only negative he has is that he takes forever to come out with a sentence..on tv in the setting he is involved in its a huge negative to have so I understand. He has been doing this well before I was born, hell I watch old fights and see his name there even well before I was born. *****s may not like what happened between him and Floyd but honestly he used to be fair to Floyd and A LOT of the Boxing world were pissed off with Floyd after that Ortiz debacle...also Floyd never gave clear answers he would always try to duck and dodge the question like a politician. I was watching Mayweather vs Judah the other day and Lampley was not being too fair on Floyd on one occasion and Merchant corrected him and stated what happened which in effect supported Mayweather. He is past prime for sure, has been since the 90's, but he has gotten worse as the years have gone on..he is still great don't get me wrong and we will miss his personality and voice on the HBO team. Steward and Merchant have gone, big loss to HBO but Kellerman is a solid guy to takeover imo. I think we need Roy to get involved a bit more and maybe Paulie. I like Paulie tbh, he is very knowledgeable and rarely biased. Although some people don't like him because of his talking too fast.

the people cheering about this don't realize what a legend Larry is. he's been a sports writer around the game of boxing for longer than most of your father's have been alive. and he did it well! this is a sad day.

I say why not replace the senile old man with another senile (at least soon to be) old man. http://i50.tinypic.com/25q9lon.jpg Of course, I'm just kidding. I can't stand Teddy Atlas.

Who will replace him? Plz not Kellerman!

That's a shame, now we have to listen to Max Kellerman

Larry was/is fine, a touch slow asking questions maybe but it builds the suspense. Good luck to him if it is the end. He wasn't fine. He has become so cynical and jaded that most of the things he said were negative. Not to mention he seemed like he was drunk during some of the telecasts.

Honestly he is just too old for this stuff. Bring in some young people or some ex boxers to help with the broadcast (ones that are good anyway)

Finally good news in boxing.

Christmas has come early for the flomos? Larry's honest, direct questions were just too much for one boxer and his group of nuthuggers to bear. :) Larry was/is fine, a touch slow asking questions maybe but it builds the suspense. Good luck to him if it is the end.

http://larrybrownsports.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/09/larry-merchant-face-530x332.jpg SAY IT AIN'T SO LARRY

Merchant's a decent enough guy, but it's definitely time. Hope he will be around for post-fight analysis and commentary.

ESPN is reporting this as well. http://espn.go.com/boxing/story/_/id/8744910/larry-merchant-ready-call-last-fight-hbo

noooooooo.....