Larry Merchant - How far is too far?

[Argentina]

hey man, I see you like Cobra. A great movie, been watching it since I was only six. Nice to see another fellow fan.

[m00ks]

Merchant will ask the questions you'd never think he'd dare to ask or will put it in a way that you don't expect. I do think that sometimes he is disrespectfull and crosses the line.

[Eyeh8you]

Watched the Mosley-Wright second bout last night, great fight, right decision.

Though what did detract for me was Larry Merchant interviewing both fighters at the end.

Larry's brusque, curmugeonly attitude can be funny at times - I loved him giving Lennox stick after the Klitschko bout - but here he was just downright rude and abrasive. Is it just me or does he come off as a little bit of a bigot?

So why is he a bigot? Thats like sayin Bryant Gumbleis a rapists cause he was abbrassive with a female athelete. You need to qualify the bigot statement. Larry Merchant to my knowledge acts that wayat all his interviews!

[tysonboxing]

Mosley-Wright second ,I feel Mosley'S dint less than Wright.and Winky Wright's bulwark is very successful .power shots fast .

[jack_the_rippuh]

[pinkpanther]

The whole point of Larry Merchant is exactly this, he polarises opinion and has shock value to make you sit up and pay atention, that is exactly what the network wants, hence why we are having this discussion and hence why he has the job.

[plexmc]

i love the old bastard......did u here him interview judah after his last fight........

[deuce_drop]

he's a drunk...( like me ) but he's surly, and closed minded. i saw him at a bar in THe HoTeL at mandalay after the fight. he was having some ****tails and checking out some braods, with some younger dudes.... but anywho, that aint the first time i've ever seen him up in a bar, before or after a fight here in vegas. i know the man get's he's drink on, then he says what he feels, sometimes it's funny and sometimes it's complete drunken close minded his opinion BS, but he is pretty curt with people in general and that to me makes him a ****.......among other things...

i'd love to have his job though, lucky bastard!!!!

[DR. FREECLOUD]

i think they should keep larry. it just cracks me the hell up when he acts like he knows what the hell he's talking about and the fighter in the ring just proves him wrong. i think the reason he is that much of a jerk in the post fight interview is so that everyone will forget about all the dumb things he said during the fight that were way off.

[Keleneki]

Merchant irritates me occasionally but he is a pretty funny guy as well. In some instances, he is downright insightful, IMHO.