I (much) prefer Atlas but understand why they had to get rid of Atlas. Timmy has improved since he first started. The other guy (forgetting his name off the top of my head) is an excellent writer but has no business commentating ringside IMO.
Timmeh isn't one of those "bright lights" dudes. He is low key, gets kinda shy when the spotlight is on him and he has to grow into a commentator role. That being said, I've noticed improvement in him with time with respect to his new role he has adopted. He has good insight but he is a company man and will tow the line before branching out and going against the grain. He has the knowledge and the smarts to be a great commentator though and will get there.
He probably hates that he is expected to say things that go against what he truly feels which is part of the gig but when the other commentators go overboard on the "company man" BS, he will be the one to step out and call them out on what the others are doing. He'll play the game to an extent but will also toss it aside when he has had enough.
Meh...................... He isn't any better than Lennox lewis, I think there are former fighters who i would definitely listen to (RJJ - 100%, give me him every day), Ward, Tarver etc The rest are ok but i really didn't like much of Lewis or Foreman.
He's not bad, except he doesn't have a voice most sports hosts, commentators have.
Joel Diaz has that quality, plus the Mexican accent.
It's a plus because we all know boxing is huge in that part of the globe.
I think he is very good.
Articulates well, obviously knows the sport, been in the ring with legends.
I actually think he's one of the worst I've ever seen. I'm having a hard time thinking of who's worse than Bradley. Foreman was bad, God was he bad. Ferdie Pachecho was bad, Lamply is bad to the point he calls out the wrong punch, but at least his grip on the language is good.
Bradley slurps a bit and stumbles with his words. There was a back and forth with Stephen A. Smith and Bradley got all punchy and couldn't use his words. Was it the Horn vs Pacquiao fight? Can't remember.
I would much rather have Bobby Czyz back. He was actually pretty good.
I like Bradley. He corrected Stephen A when he said Naseem Hamed was knocked out and obviously confused him with the other "asian" Amir Khan. He said, "cmon, give the guy credit...he was good" to which Stephen, "until he was knocked out" and Bradley says, "I think you mean Khan"...total silence.
He keeps it real. He's not going to win any awards for his prose but most def he brings value to the broadcast. His commenting style reminds me of Roy Jones and George Foreman. I really miss George.
I like him
He sounds humble
He ain’t licking ass or anything
Making his bones
Hopefully his speech gets a little better , sometimes sounds like he’s chewing his words
Don't think he even bothered to watch a single Angulo fight, just kept repeating basic statistics you can find on boxrec. Said Angulo had no business being in the ring with Ramirez and only had a puncher's chance. Great way to hype up the main event. At least Teddy Atlas made it an entertaining ***** show
I think he is very good.
Articulates well, obviously knows the sport, been in the ring with legends.
I agree Beer. Another thing, he isn’t nipping at everyone else trying to explain or express his opinions or feelings. He keeps it informative and direct IMO
I love him. He told th armchair announcer when Horn was losing to let the fight go on, he worked hard to become champion when the armchair announcer said that they should think about stopping the fight. Tim was on point and respectfully disagreed with the armchair announcer.
I think he is good but he should never use any of Atlas's expressions like go to the basement or let the air out of his tires.One Atlas is one too many. Off topic Joe Tesatore or however you spell his name is horrible. He must have said that one sided fight was absolutely the fight of the year at least 20 times as if nobody but him had any say in the matter. Bradley, who has seen many great fights and been in some himself never once said it was the fight of the year. He knew better. It was a good fight but far too one sided to be a fight of the year. Then in the main event Joe said over and over that Ramirez was the best 168 pound boxer in the world and how athletic he was. Bradley never said either of those things. Joe was a complete kiss ass to top rank boxing. He sounded like a damn commercial for their fighters and their fights. Bradley did not do that so good for him.
Agree with you about Tesatore. He was extremely obnoxious about it, too, insisting as if it were fact that it was fight of the year. On ESPN alone, the Quigg-Valdez and Loma-Linares fights were better, that's without even mentioning the likes of Usyk/Breidis or Wilder/Ortiz elsewhere.
Maybe it's because ESPN didn't have fights that matter before, but I didn't notice what an unbearable company man he is.
Tim is pretty good, I think he brings some good insight.
IMO he is the lone bright spot, on an otherwise embarrassingly awful, inept and biased for the house fighter announce team.