Who gets fired on ESPN first…..Bradley or Kriegel??

[PRchamp]

Watching the ESPN telecast, I feel as though that Timothy Bradley and Mark Kriegel are on a collision course to bumps heads soon and it’s going to get ugly. You can hear Kriegel throw sneaky jabs at Bradley and Bradley shooting back at Kriegel basically saying “YDKSB”.

Bradley made the comment of the African pro boxer who died on the Berlanga fight telecast and he was talking about MSG smelling like a pound of weed haha. Kriegel thoughts and opinions just seem unnatural, I feel like he wants to bail since the ESPN boxing commentators correct him about the history of the sport even though Kriegel is the “story man”. Who gets fired first and does anybody notice the beef between Bradley-Kriegel?

[just the facts]

Hopefully Bradley. I haven’t seen such a company ball gargler since that scum bag Lampley.

[paulf]

None of them are getting fired.

They're not supposed to be unbiased and they're not supposed to be BFF's. ESPN loves having their commentators argue and debate.

Ward has basically worked from home the past two years and ESPN doesn't give a ****. They're very happy with the commentary team.

[STREET CLEANER]

Kriegel, he said that there was not a fighter born yet to beat Loma because of his footwork and Lopez beat him that night. Kriegel is dead weight and doesn't bring anything to the table.

They might keep him because he promotes the fighters they favor because of network contracts. Tim is good at times and very bad at others but has more credibility than Kriegel

[KillaMane26]

Bradley a good analyst tho he just biased, but most are either subliminal or blatant

[Cypocryphy]

Kriegal drives me up a wall. Bradley is better than Kriegal. Remember when Atlas was commentating? Teddy hated Kriegal. lol He'd rip into Kriegal every second. I think that might be one of the main reasons ESPN let him go, because of Kriegal. If Atlas had his way, he would have fired Kriegal years ago for not knowing **** about boxing. I've seen Bradley correct Kriegal and Mark just kept on with his ****** opinion on something, even though it was obvious that Bradley was right.

[Cypocryphy]

None of them are getting fired.

They're not supposed to be unbiased and they're not supposed to be BFF's. ESPN loves having their commentators argue and debate.

Ward has basically worked from home the past two years and ESPN doesn't give a ****. They're very happy with the commentary team.

Tell that to Max Kellerman and Stephen A. Smith. I think Smith never got the memo.

[Punch on Tap]

When I watch ESPN fights I try hard not to listen to the commentary. I’m not saying they are terrible because sometimes it is entertaining. But I’m not really listening to them because I think they are too subjective and paint narratives before and during the fight that almost never match up with what eventually transpires.

The personalities are too strong together and the leader/moderator isn’t respected enough by Ward and Bradley to stay in line.

Bradley is always making these crazy noises and grunts when his fav lands a good shot or if everyone says the sky is blue he argues green just because.

Ward is never in the actual building and so there’s a disconnect there naturally. Almost all his opinions come from his personal experiences more so that the objective aspects of fight analysis. And I get it l, he’s a HOF’er.

Kriegal does well with the fight camp mini docu/interview stuff but is cringy at best during the live and post fight commentary. I like that he asks certain questions but for the most part it feels like he’s trying to hard for those “moments.”

This crew makes the old HBO biased commentators seem perfect in comparison.

With all that said, I have conditioned myself to listen intermittently as a fight is being called. And so now it’s less impactful to my objectivity overall.

[paulf]

Tell that to Max Kellerman and Stephen A. Smith. I think Smith never got the memo.

Smith is a superstar had Kellerman removed because he was too intellectual and thought audiences were losing interest. What does that have to do with ESPN's boxing commentary?

[Baltimore]

Tim seems to have moved more and more into the pumping up the house fighter no matter what type of guy... and that sucks. I like Tim though and he will give actual opinions. Also he’s usually good for one wild statement a telecast which makes me laugh (even if he wasn’t trying to be funny). The last part might be what gets him fired first though unfortunately...the world is so sensitive and looking for reasons to fire people over one wrong sentence.

If I had my choice though...Cypo above said exactly what my first thought was when reading the thread title, “Kreigal drives me up a wall”. Literally I opened the thread to write those exact words.
Hes fine in the pre fight build up segments I guess, but I just can’t stand him at the desk.
Literally every boxing broadcast team gets at least some hate here inn NSB from some posters. Different strokes for different folks I guess...but for me it’s Kreigal. It’s like the guy still wants to tell his pre-fight researched lines in the middle of a fight, whether they fit or not. And they almost always don’t.