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I am sick and tired of this trio of Merchant, Lampley, and Lennox Lewis.
Lewis barely contributes anything. I know that he is an intelligent guy and was a great fighter, but as a broadcaster he is absolutely terrible. He doesn't make any insightful commentary. Did anyone else notice that Lampley keeps having to make suggestions to Lennox Lewis to get him to agree with them so he doesn't just stand there saying nothing for the whole fight? Lewis clearly is not comfortable in his role and it shows.
Merchant quite frankly complains too much. We all knew that Taylor versus Spinks was not going to be a brawl. Everybody knew this. Merchant spent the whole damn fight just complaining about it. The whole point of a broadcast trio is to provide some insight into the suttle technical things that are going on in the ring in this type of boxing match in order to make the fight more interesting to the casual fan who perhaps does not understand these things. The whole fight had Merchant complaining about how the fight was turning out as expected, Lampley saying things but being largely non-responsive in terms of having an opinion, and Lewis standing there like a turnip.
If HBOs broadcasters were just going to complain about the fight constantly, why did they have Cory Spinks on in the first place? What the hell did they expect him to do? Brawl? There have been many great defensive fighters like Willie Pep and Pernell Whitaker who were not necessarily considered boring. Why would HBO have a guy on the card and then constantly complain about him when he is boxing like he always does and boxing to his strengths which unfortunately doesn't lead to huge exchanges with lots of punches landed.
It is fights like Taylor-Spinks where we need an insightful broadcast trio to help casual fans through it by going in depth to the different tactics and strategies of both fighters. They were only alive and commenting when the Miranda-Pavlik fight was going on. We don't need them during a fight like that, because anyone can get excited watching that type of fight.
Lewis barely contributes anything. I know that he is an intelligent guy and was a great fighter, but as a broadcaster he is absolutely terrible. He doesn't make any insightful commentary. Did anyone else notice that Lampley keeps having to make suggestions to Lennox Lewis to get him to agree with them so he doesn't just stand there saying nothing for the whole fight? Lewis clearly is not comfortable in his role and it shows.
Merchant quite frankly complains too much. We all knew that Taylor versus Spinks was not going to be a brawl. Everybody knew this. Merchant spent the whole damn fight just complaining about it. The whole point of a broadcast trio is to provide some insight into the suttle technical things that are going on in the ring in this type of boxing match in order to make the fight more interesting to the casual fan who perhaps does not understand these things. The whole fight had Merchant complaining about how the fight was turning out as expected, Lampley saying things but being largely non-responsive in terms of having an opinion, and Lewis standing there like a turnip.
If HBOs broadcasters were just going to complain about the fight constantly, why did they have Cory Spinks on in the first place? What the hell did they expect him to do? Brawl? There have been many great defensive fighters like Willie Pep and Pernell Whitaker who were not necessarily considered boring. Why would HBO have a guy on the card and then constantly complain about him when he is boxing like he always does and boxing to his strengths which unfortunately doesn't lead to huge exchanges with lots of punches landed.
It is fights like Taylor-Spinks where we need an insightful broadcast trio to help casual fans through it by going in depth to the different tactics and strategies of both fighters. They were only alive and commenting when the Miranda-Pavlik fight was going on. We don't need them during a fight like that, because anyone can get excited watching that type of fight.
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