Merchant Brought Substance, Eloquence and Honesty

[THEBADBOY BG]

I love Larry.
I ****in love him.

Im pissed that he's leaving.

me too 4real...

[IronNick]

i gotta admit he was alright. but honestly in the past few years, he seems depressed. or like he is dying. to put it quite simply: he's lost the passion.

[Sin City]

....Even though he's an old fart, I have always liked Larry. He's like that Grandma who just says what she thinks because she expects to get away with it at her advanced age. Larry was very good at what he did and he had a certain flare to him. He was also a big Wlad nuthugger and I'm gonna miss that. Now we have to listen to that pencil necked Kellerman prick talk **** about Wlad and suck Sam Peter's **** or perhaps some other large black mamba that he fancies. At least we don't have to listen to him talk about Byrd anymore since he seems to be completely out of the picture.

That's what is so cool about him. He is like that grandpa who doesn't care what he says cus hes dying soon anyway so he tells you about the time he was ****ing the waitress down at the old dinner or the crazy **** he used to do.. I'm gonna miss his old half asleep looking ass saying whatever the hell he felt like saying.

[Sin City]

i gotta admit he was alright. but honestly in the past few years, he seems depressed. or like he is dying. to put it quite simply: he's lost the passion.

I think he is just mad at the direction boxing has been going in.

[niceguy45]

i gotta admit he was alright. but honestly in the past few years, he seems depressed. or like he is dying. to put it quite simply: he's lost the passion.

it's true or could it be that hbo limited his open opinion like he really use to ?

[niceguy45]

i would like to add, max kellerman is great but i think is not on the hbo level yet, he is more like an espn type of analyst idk
unless he can prove me wrong

[werewolf]

Little Bugeyes!? The hysterical little ****sexual dope fiend-boxing groupie!? Tell me this is some sort of sick joke!

Hey that's what happens when your old man is the rabbi who owns half the station.




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[STEELHEAD]

hey at least he will call mayweather vs dlh i really dont want larry to leave even though he just puts out the flame in the fight with his lame quotes,
but he has been great during his tennure as an boxing analyst....


this is what i wondered.....could it be ..........
larry merchant of course works for HBO right ?
he always calls HBO fighters along with jim lampley and emanuel steward right ? is true Larry Merchant always makes negative comments about their own fighter could it be because of that interview he did to floyd after the baldomir wipe-out ?????



man i really hate larry but i wouldn't watch a fight and not hear his voice, it would take a while for me to get use to it,
i hate him but i want him to stay to call hbo fights

they really spoke bad about floyd the whole fight, i hear it and i can't bellieve it....If an HBO fighter is winning or losing the same network commentators should not dis-credit the fighter....could it be ?

you see i think floyd deserved the criticism from merchant and hbo team 98% of the time. and then when you say in last paragragh "the same network commentators should not dis-credit the fighter".
**** that lame ****. you must of voted for bush. commentators should speak there mind and not be kiss asses to the higher ups. they shouls call it as they see it.

[STEELHEAD]

i gotta admit he was alright. but honestly in the past few years, he seems depressed. or like he is dying. to put it quite simply: he's lost the passion.

last couple of years he's been dealing with his wifes illnesses. i think cancer.

if anyones ever heard larry on pedro's weekly ringtalk show i'm amazed at how layed back philosophical and concise this guy is when compared to him in front of the camera at hbo. when the guy has time to get it out in long hand
speach his point of veiw makes sense.

[Kid Achilles]

Boxing commentary just lost a few precious brain cells. Max Kellerman is okay but he does not compare to Merchant for knowledge and wisdom. He's not even close.

You know, hearing Merchant talk about boxing always reminded me that this sport of ours is far, far deeper than just two guys trying to beat the **** out of each other. Boxing can be a morality play, and there is some extra excitement and emotional investment (and the payoffs when your man wins) to experience by getting involved with that, but above everything else the sport has always been a metaphor for the human struggle. Man vs. man (obvious), man vs. nature (fighters battling the aging process) and man vs. himself (the psychological battles that wage within the mind when a man or woman steps through those ropes) That's the main attraction it has for us. Well me anyway, and I'm the only one I can confidently speak for.

Anyway, I hope my interest in contemporary boxing doesn't wane any from this.