Larry Merchant is unfair...

[realheavyhands]

bernard fought a great fight the boxing was very close how can larry say delahoya was outboxing him when nard landed more shots lol.. and the harder shots ... delhoya just has that fighting style that looks good

[QueenCity]

I have always liked Larry Merchant, but for some reason it does seem like he has some kind of problem with Hopkins-- I don't understand it.

[bigdlb12]

like when Hopkins said "I dont know if you disagree?" Larry said Yeah I do, what a prick, dlh started slow to last in the later rounds,however that gave hopkins the edge to figure him out, it was kinda close I had the fight 76-76 going into the 9th giving DLH rounds 1,2,4 and 6 Hopkins 3,5,7, & 8 , the body shot didnt look like much but then again it was in the right spot,

[shonuff247]

Larry merchant does say some awkward things sometimes to fighters. I noticed the difference in his interviewing persona when he was interviewing each fighter. He was all smiles for Oscar and when he interviewed Bernard he was more abrupt and straight to the point.

That is exactly my point. You should have the same demeanor and ask tough questions of both fighters. Anything other than that is unfair. How anyone can be negative to a fighter who handily won a fight is beyond me....

[Explosivo]

That is exactly my point. You should have the same demeanor and ask tough questions of both fighters. Anything other than that is unfair. How anyone can be negative to a fighter who handily won a fight is beyond me....

I guess Lary didnt think he handily won the fight, and neither did I. Before the KO I had Oscar up.

[Dark Destroyer]

That is exactly my point. You should have the same demeanor and ask tough questions of both fighters. Anything other than that is unfair. How anyone can be negative to a fighter who handily won a fight is beyond me....

Larry has been guilty of this so many times. He talked to Lennox like trash after his fight with Vitali too. He should be neutral but his bias side has come through so many times in his interviews.

The funniest one i saw though was when he gave Mayorga a cigarette to test him and Mayorga just lit it and smoked it. I bet Larry wasn't expecting him to take it.

[Dark Destroyer]

I guess Lary didnt think he handily won the fight, and neither did I. Before the KO I had Oscar up.

Larry wasn't happy but Bernard cannot be blamed for doing his job. Larry could have at least gave Bernard a smile.

[m00ks]

All three of them sounded like they were at a funeral after Hopkins floored Oscar. I've hear Lampley flat out screamed when a fighter knocks the other guy out, but all three of them sounded like they wanted to take off their headsets(if they have) after they saw Oscar on the canvas.

[Atman]

All three of them sounded like they were at a funeral after Hopkins floored Oscar. I've hear Lampley flat out screamed when a fighter knocks the other guy out, but all three of them sounded like they wanted to take off their headsets(if they have) after they saw Oscar on the canvas.

Yep. Quite frankly, I thought Larry's performance Sat. night was embarassing. I mean, it's well known that he and Hopkins traded some barbs in the Hakkar post-fight interview but he really needs to get over himself and call the fight honestly.

1) In the middle of the first round, he says that Oscar was beating Bernard to the punch when Oscar hadn't landed anything yet. Steward was as befuddled as everyone I was watching the fight with when he said 'um, I haven't seen Oscar do much of anything'

2) Somehow, he had the fight 4 rounds to 1 for Oscar after 5. That's giving Oscar every, every benefit of the doubt. I've seen the fight four times now and I still don't know how you could give DLH more than 3 rounds if you were scoring it with at least some honesty.

3) Once again, sometime during the middle rounds he said Oscar was beating Hopkins to the punch when he wasn't.

4) In rounds 7-9, when Hops was taking over the fight with ring generalship and clean punching, he still refused to give him credit. Saying some bull**** like 'I wish Hopkins would stop looking menacing, and start BEING menacing'. Shut the **** up.

5) He couldn't hide the disappointment in his voice when DLH got KO'd.

6) Again, he tried to discredit what Hopkins did by later saying 'Bernard wasn't the better man, he was just the bigger man'. To rewrite a Jay-Z line, "do you WATCH boxing or do you just skim through it?" Hopkins did what he always does: start out relatively slowly, studies his opponent, warms up in the middle rounds, and dominates the 2nd half of the fight. He was the one who used his ring IQ to figure out his opponent, not De La Hoya.

Merchant isn't racist, but he needs to either be professional or just stay at home during a fight that involves a boxer he doesn't like.

[realheavyhands]

Larry has been guilty of this so many times. He talked to Lennox like trash after his fight with Vitali too. He should be neutral but his bias side has come through so many times in his interviews.

The funniest one i saw though was when he gave Mayorga a cigarette to test him and Mayorga just lit it and smoked it. I bet Larry wasn't expecting him to take it.

yea very true and i aint a lewis fan..but larry he is real ****y and thinks the way he sees the fight is the right way...and he never been in the ring..being in the ring lets you know alot more about a fight ..did yall notice how emanual steward kept sayin hopkins will knock him out soon becuase he knows the inside and outs .. i could tell merchant disagreed but steward is never worng..look who was right