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By Lyle Fitzsimmons - Some stream-of-consciousness observations from last Saturday night.
1. Perspective was reality… even a week later.
Following the live PPV broadcast of Margarito-Cotto on July 26, indictments of the network’s Lampley-Kellerman announce team were plentiful from both sides of the consensus courtroom.
Many who’d picked Margarito blasted the duo for its seemingly blatant homer treatment of house fighter Cotto. Meanwhile, to those who’d leaned toward the Puerto Rican welterweight coming in, it seemed the pair’s comments lauding the Mexican’s constant pressure ignored the consistently one-sided nature of exchanges - usually won by Cotto - on between-rounds highlight packages.
Only one thing changed the second time around.
Somehow, Emanuel Steward sounded even better in August.
While the “Boxing After Dark” rebroadcast was again replete with Lampley and Kellerman’s breathless superlatives, it was economical third man Steward who alone seemed to sense what would happen from the minute the fighters engaged in round one.
The Kronk guru was prescient and precise in fleeting opportunities to speak amid the blather, correctly forecasting as early as round three - even as Cotto was putting rounds in the bank - that the stretch run would ultimately provide a devastating and withering challenge. [details]
1. Perspective was reality… even a week later.
Following the live PPV broadcast of Margarito-Cotto on July 26, indictments of the network’s Lampley-Kellerman announce team were plentiful from both sides of the consensus courtroom.
Many who’d picked Margarito blasted the duo for its seemingly blatant homer treatment of house fighter Cotto. Meanwhile, to those who’d leaned toward the Puerto Rican welterweight coming in, it seemed the pair’s comments lauding the Mexican’s constant pressure ignored the consistently one-sided nature of exchanges - usually won by Cotto - on between-rounds highlight packages.
Only one thing changed the second time around.
Somehow, Emanuel Steward sounded even better in August.
While the “Boxing After Dark” rebroadcast was again replete with Lampley and Kellerman’s breathless superlatives, it was economical third man Steward who alone seemed to sense what would happen from the minute the fighters engaged in round one.
The Kronk guru was prescient and precise in fleeting opportunities to speak amid the blather, correctly forecasting as early as round three - even as Cotto was putting rounds in the bank - that the stretch run would ultimately provide a devastating and withering challenge. [details]
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