How much does COMMENTARY mean to a FIGHT???

[Ted The Bull]

When commentators such as Watt and Merchant are being all negative it effects my mind set and i cant enjoy the fight Quite so much! ****ers!

Totally agree with that. Also Fran Charles should be led to the slaughterhouse. He is dreadful. As well, the shobox announcers suck big time. They did a brutally horiific job on the Stark-Oliver fight. Also, Max Kellerman's hype is way over the top and when he talks, his eyeball almost pop out! Christ, where is Howard Cosell when we need him. Merchant is senile and mean spirited. If I had to choose one word to describe him, it would be "constipated." Thank God for the mute button!

[kayjay]

2 more recent fights come to mind: Hopkins Taylor 1 where HBO and company were so far up Taylors ass they could smell his breath and Gatti Baldomir. I watched that fight with british commentary one night and couldn't believe how good Gatti did when he chose to box Baldomir.

Nah that was a vicious beatdown no matter how you look at it. I couldn't believe how many posters on this site wanted to find some consolation for Gatti in it.

But I think I will watch Taylor's fights with the sound off, or with British commentary from now on.

[The Noose]

I dont care about commentry.

With Calzaghe - Lacy, or Benn - McClellan, i wanted to hear what both the british and american commenators said, and how they compared.

Personally i like Merchant, and cant stand Foreman. British commentry is fine, but they try a liitle too hard to get as excited as the americans.

[AintGottaClue]

I definetly agree. Lampley has come up with some of the best One-Liners ive ever heard, and it frames a picture in my mind.

Like Gatti-Ward: "Gatti risking another low blow penalty, to get Ward off of him" gives me the image of that Gatti body combo late in the fight.

And its not ONLY for boxing.

Hockey: "DO you believe in miracles YES!"

College Football: "He did it, he did it, Flutie did it!"

Baseball: "I dont believe... What I just saw."



All these Lines make those particular games very easy to recognize because you have that image of the US hockey team celebrating, Doug Flutie jumping around, And Kirk Gibson Pumping his arms.

I think a great call does everything in turning a great sports moment, into a legendary one

might wanna add "Down goes tyson" to that list im sure anyone can picture tyson getting leveled by dougless from that line

[The Surgeon]

Totally agree with that. Also Fran Charles should be led to the slaughterhouse. He is dreadful. As well, the shobox announcers suck big time. They did a brutally horiific job on the Stark-Oliver fight. Also, Max Kellerman's hype is way over the top and when he talks, his eyeball almost pop out! Christ, where is Howard Cosell when we need him. Merchant is senile and mean spirited. If I had to choose one word to describe him, it would be "constipated." Thank God for the mute button!

Lol! I like Kellerman but ur right about his eyes poppin out!
I watched the 2nd Tyson vs Bruno fight the other day and the commentator (Collonel Bob Sheridan, I THINK!) practacally ****** Mike off! Glorified cheerleader! He was so excited! At 1point he actually, and this is true stopped and just gushed "Mike's a Great guy!" lol