HBO Broadcasters

[Steelhammer86]

Lampley is great, top sportscaster. Merchant is leaving HBO anyway, so he was less careful about what he was saying last night, but I've always liked his intelligent and insightful comments.

Lennox Lewis is repetitive and boring and adds nothing positive, says the same in every fight, and so he has to go. Emanuel Steward is knowledgable and adds intelligent comments.

[Feint]

I like Lampley, and although Merchant tries to be "over the top" guy too often he is more funny than he is annoying...

However, having said that they clearly haven't quite got that "third mic" position down yet and yes, way too much degradation of the Taylor-Spinks fight.

[Bogler]

merchant is correct. this fight is so boring it makes the pbf-oscar the foty.

[midwest]

thats why even though it aint the 4th of july.........









































there firing that cracker merchant



get mad **** wit it

[AllEyesOpen]

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.

I agree 100%, can't give you karma til I spread it around tho. What I'm really sick of is how they were on Taylor's **** the whole night, I think Spinks did what he does, & Taylor didn't do ****. I'm hoping HBO comes to the realization that Taylor, although a solid fighter, needs alot of work, but he's probably gonna just keep getting gift decisions til someone knocks him the **** out.

[pesticid]

Merchant is starting to get really old & crabby. If you dont brawl like Pac then he will rip you. If your any kind of boxer then he will dog you the whole fight

actually no, when pac fought marquez, merchant was cheering for marquez. he just detests boxers who like to keep it safe and are so boring to watch like spinks and byrd