Larry Merchant is unfair...

[m00ks]

P4p and take away Bernard's power advantage and I think Oscar would have won it. But yea, Merchant was being an ass that night.

[DR. FREECLOUD]

i personally feel that in this chess match hopkins did exactly what he wanted to do. he used his smarts to win this fight. although i think it came a little sooner than he thought. hopkins even looked a little frustrated for a minute but i knew better. if the fight would have gone any further dlh would have ended up on the cavas twitching. not to take away from dlh, i really respect him and he impressed the hell outta me. mad props to that guy. but he really did bite of a little more than he could chew. hopkins always shows up to the big fight at his best and so does dlh. who knows what is next for these guys. i'd like to see them both go on to do more great things for the boxing world.

[jack_the_rippuh]

I have no problem with Larry Merchant, besides the fact that he always tried to find a way to invalidate George Foreman's points. As far as the post fight interview. I say the fighters should start answering Merchant just like how he asks them questions..

[NiGe2011]

Larry's assessment of the fight was not that far from accurate and even Hopkins aknowledged this during the post fight interview- Hopkins said that he felt a sense of urgency and that he realized he may have been a little behind on the cards. I dont feel that all of that adds up to racism on Merchant's part, at least not in the case in point. There are many gripes I do have with Merchant, but most have to do with his severly old age and selility...

[m00ks]

I have no problem with Larry Merchant, besides the fact that he always tried to find a way to invalidate George Foreman's points. As far as the post fight interview. I say the fighters should start answering Merchant just like how he asks them questions..

I hate Foreman. He always says what HE would do and if the figher aint doing it, he tells us he should lol. Anyweyz, he makes good points AT TIMES but I rarely heard him commend a fighter for boxing well and picks on the fighter thats getting beat.

[SweetScience]

< Larry IS the man!!!

[invincible_pac]

i dont think he is racist, just didnt like the fact that Hopkins did not press the fight early.

Yeah he is not racisthe is just a De La hoya Fan!!!

[deuce_drop]

larry has an ego problem,plain and simple. he also has a grudge with hopkins no doubt about that. i think he's got a problem with hopkins cause he says what's on his mind. same as larry.but i've seen larry be a **** to others too. i think that if it's not an hbo fighter, or they don't do what HE expects them to do in the ring, then he gives them zero credit.....he did stick up for hopkins in the trinidad fight, when foreman was talking all sorts of trash on how hard tito punches and how great of a boxer he is. but he was sticking up for hopkins when it was obvious that trinidad was getting his ass handed to him. also he always goes to war with foreman enless they are talking about dlh or rjj.

plus larry is a drunk, a known drunk, for years... i've seen him at the bar a couple of times in vegas at the mandalay. maybe thats why he is prick in most of his interviews...and one last thing alot of boxers try to control the interview and when it's your job to do the interview, that can get annoying.... i think that since the fighters are willing to put their life on the line for our entertainment and his job i think that they should be able to say something to family and friends, and he should be a little more nice to them cause if there wasn't boxing larry wouldn't have that nice cushy job...drunk prick....he has my dream job, him and lampley..

[ghostbear]

Larry is just an old drunk guy and he isn't hurting anyone. I think he's pretty funny the way he sometimes makes things all philisophical. I think he was interviewing Vitali one time and said something like Vitali was the snake in the grass and somebody was the mongoose in the field, then Vitali paused for a minute and went "He fight hard. I win."

I remember after one fight they were talking about an upcomming fight and Larry went into this story about 2 cowboys riding on an airplane and one asked the other where they were going and he said "To Hell in a handbasket if we don't mend our wicked ways". Dunno what that has to do with boxing but it was funny. damn lush

[Winter]

I know who you are talking about. I like Larry Merchant too. I think he is fair.