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Hagler showed the best way to deal with Merchant if you're a fighter who thinks the man is not giving you enough respect. Go earn it in the ring. In Floyd's immature mind, the best he could come up with was to curse and verbally assail the man, pathetic really. In terms of what he did to deal w/ Ortiz, I take nothing from the man, he did exactly what needed to be done to be finished with Ortiz, but he threw it all away when he acted like a street thug to Larry Merchant.
I don't want "neutral" boxing announcers, that's boring. I want passionate announcers with opinions, feelings, beliefs, and a likeminded love of boxing like I have. That's why I like Merchant and I like Kellerman. Want neutral? Go hop in your car and roll down a hill, boring.
Floyd can be classy when he wants to be. The chemistry between him and Larry is just not a good mix at this point.
Oh well, that just makes it more interesting. And for anyone who says that Larry Merchant is biased or unfair and had THAT coming to him from Floyd, I'll remind you of the fact that when Marvin Hagler was upset with Larry Merchant in the 80's for not giving him the perceived proper credit, The Marvelous One never cursed or verbally assaulted him. Hagler simply went into the ring and did what it took to earn the man's respect. Period.
OMFG, Merchant was gonna ask him questions about the biggest fight in boxing!
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No! Anything but that!
Too bad Floyd never heard something like that from Merchant himself. Maybe that's why he reacted the way he did.
He did not give Merchant a chance. Money came to that interview looking for any reason, looking for any opening to explode on Merchant. His contempt for Merchant was FAR MORE obvious than any contempt Merchant might have had for Mayweather. That reaction by Floyd was something already on his mind and when he saw his opening he took it. His mouth is faster than his hands and he looked like an idiot assaulting Merchant after Merchant said such respectful things right after the KO.
There is a way to handle what would be considered by some as hostile, agenda-prone, interviewers in general.
Yes, it's called being a classy gentleman, and Floyd is anything but that.
I love how some people think they know what Merchant was going to say, like they're mind readers. It was exactly this mentality that helped Floyd put his own foot in his own mouth. Newsflash Floyd and Floyd apologists: We don't judge people on what we think they're gonna do or say, or on what you think they're gonna do or say... we judge people on what they DO and SAY. Saying that Merchant was gonna go negative does not mean he did or even was going to, that's just an assumption and my Daddy taught me all about those when I was a boy, want me to send him over to teach you?
It really seems like he just let that happen.
Even if was lookin at the ref, he'd still see it coming and know what was happening right in front of him so I don't but that. He deliberately chose to not react. That is very unusual, and its actually suspicious, IMO.
I agree with most everything else though.
Yes, I did too. It's uncontroversial, but informative.
A rarity in a Boxing/MMA discussion.
And I like how he put boxing a little higher; fight length, skill level. :boxing:
It was frustrating to hear HBO denigrate Barker, and ignore what he was doing in there. Barker won the 3rd and 4th rounds, but you would never know it from listening to those announcers.
His technique is god awful. I can't believe this was a real k.o.
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The first right hook busted his eardrum, the second one (which looked almost like nothing) knocked him over, and at that point it was the end of the night for a guy who had no more equilibrium.
good
he belongs with those guys no doubt.
he fought a hell of a fight against martinez and won some rounds
Agreed.
Barker won the 4th for sure, and the 3rd & 5th arguably.