Joe Tessitore is garbage. How close was that fight really?

[paulf]

No it’s not, it’s supposed to be objective and accurate.

Where did you hear that???

HBO is gone dude. ESPN is completely different company.

[TelMex]

Watching that fight, I realized how much I miss Andre Ward compared to Joe Tessitore. Trying to sell us some BS, like our eyes aren't watching the same fight. Tessitore is just as bad as the bi-polar wrestling guy on PBC.

[Dr. Z]

ESPN/Top Rank has some of the most sensationalist dramatic media bull****. With the exception of I guess the wrestling guy on Showtime, Mauro Ranallo who is just a pure hack. Ray Flores should also never step anywhere near a commentary mic. Hell throw Todd Grisham and Chis Mannix in a meat grinder while we're at it. Kriegel and Tessitore are pretty ****ing disgusting though

ESPN had good boxing gut back in the day, Now they are crap.

[Jsmooth9876]

- - U monkeys still listening announcers…priceless!!!

Ever hear of a MUTE function???

Or you know, just use your eyes instead of your ears to score the fight lol

[Oracle01]

Man I've said it a million times on here: the commentary is SUPPOSED TO BE BIASED. That's how ESPN runs their business. Period.

It was the commentators job to sell the fight as an all out war, razor thin, down to the wire. It keeps casuals more engaged and maybe stops some of them from changing the channel.

They're doing their job.

The problem is when it gets to the extreme stage of being delusional, embarrassing and amateur hour. There are limits to sensationalism or you become a clown show like ESPN.

You are also confusing what should be, and what is. They are biased but they should not be.

[PBR Streetgang]

It was pretty bad last night. You could tell that ESPN had a plan to create this as a classic Mexican rivalry in the mold.of Marquez/Vasquez and Barrera/Morales.

The reality in the ring was far from that but Tessitore and Bradley pretended we were seeing a classic. Who knows, maybe some viewers bought it.

It's the reason why, after a one sided beatdown, they were asking Navarrete if he wanted to run it back. ESPN always pulls this stuff but it's not as overt as it was last night.

[paulf]

They are biased but they should not be.

Actually it's up to ESPN to decide how a fight should or should not be called on their network.

If you as a fan don't like it, that's fine, but Joe Tessitore and Tim Bradley are doing exactly what they're supposed to be doing - call the fight the way the production managers tell them to call it.

[RuleOfTheSpear]

I gave Valdez like 3-4 rounds.. I could see 10-2 as well. But them comparing this fight to the Barrera-Morales trilogy fights was ridiculous. Those 2 last night would have gotten embarrassed by either of those guys in their primes.

I wouldn't even pick Navarrete/Valdez to win over faded versions of Morales/Barrera