Fran Charles Being Replaced by HBO

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Broadcasting and Cable reports that HBO is replacing Fran Charles with Bob Papa as the lead commentator on their HBO Boxing After Dark series. [details]

[King Koyle]

Fran was alright,he just never seemed to adjust though.Who is Bob Papa again?

[Bucktown Beast]

Thank god, Fran Charles was terrible. Dude was dry, out of synch and knew nothing about boxing.

[cupcrazy01]

I was hoping Lamps would go to Denmark for the Kessler-Andrade fight, going overseas for a special BAD like he did for Calzaghe-Bika.

Oh well.

[scap]

Papa is certainly an upgrade from Fran.

I would like to see Rich Marotta get into the mix, the poor bastard has been relegated to "C" and "B" level fights forever, the guy knows his **** and is very good to listen to, I can only imagine how his rep would grow if he was given "A" level fighters to work with.

[Phantasm]

I like Bob Papa. VERY underrated and ESPN took a step down when they replaced him with Joe T. even though he's a good guy. I think it will be a great team.

[Gareth Ivanovic]

I didn't mind Fran but Bob Papa is pretty good. I like him on Versus.

[Bucktown Beast]

Bring back Gil Clancy or Barry Tompkins!

[GunStar]

I don't like to see a person losing his job, but Fran was horrible!

[USA4LIFE]

This guy had no buisness commentating about boxing, Papa will fit in well I think. I guess anyone is better than Fran.