How ridiculous is the HBO commentary team (Lim and Larry Especially)

[yeykax]

What he meant was that by choosing Martinez was a wrong pick to ressurect Pavliks carreer! At the same token it wasn't bad at all Martinez is one of the toughest out there besides Pwill.I guess it was a poor choice of words but anyways Merchants days are number maybe someone steps up and takes his place wich we all know it's going to be Kellerman!!

[Calilloyd]

Only gave Pavlik 2-3 rounds. I was pissed off at the fact that Martinez wasn't being credited for his body work. The commentating yesterday was horrible.

Honestly it's gotten to the point where I expect it to be bad and biased. But Lampley is by far the worst one on the HBO crew when it comes to bias.

[Sutekh uvdabrix]

martinez got pushed over pavlikkks left foot that wasnt even a KD they were trying to be generous and give kels some kind of hope.

Towards the end of the fight they all came to their senses though led by jim then manny co signed


followed by the geriatric

[Calilloyd]

What he meant was that by choosing Martinez was a wrong pick to ressurect Pavliks carreer! At the same token it wasn't bad at all Martinez is one of the toughest out there besides Pwill.I guess it was a poor choice of words but anyways Merchants days are number maybe someone steps up and takes his place wich we all know it's going to be Kellerman!!

Well Pavlik had to defend his belt against a top fighter at some point. He's been riding the Jermaine Taylor wins for years now. He pulled out two times with Paul Williams. It was time. I agree that Kellerman is a good replacement for Merchant. I don't always agree with Merchant but I'll miss his commentary.

[Ray*]

So i stayed up till about 4 in the morning (uk time) to see the fight and what i found ridicolous was Larry merchant saying in other words that Pavlik should of ducked Martinez and took on a Garry Lockett type of defense and these are generally the same people that say Floyd of fought this or that. It's no wonder the sport isnt thriving as much as it should especially when the commentators who should be calling the fight between the middleweight champion and a highly rated contender instead talk about how the champion of the world should of taken an easy defense lol

I was shocked when i heard that as well!!! I was going to make a thread about it but i thought against it, He and the rest were basically saying he should have gone with other options instead of a mover in Martinez..

[Calilloyd]

Yea I usually like Lampley. You just know it's a big fight when you hear him. But lately he has ******. When I watched the replay this morning I said the same thing when I heard that comment. And then he made a big deal about Martinez getting knocked down. Obviously it was from a punch but he made it seem like it was from some monstrous right hand.On the other hand I love Merchant and never have a problem with him haha.

That was Lampley being Lampley. I thought it was funny when he tried to compare that to Lennox Lewis-Michael Grant. But Stewart shut him up fast by saying "Well Lennox knocked Grant out with the punch so that was not a questionable knock down" lol.

[southcentralcar]

Kelly Pavlik is fighting the perfect fight.

-Emmanual Stuard (2 minutes remain in round 1)

hahaha made me laugh grey k sent lol

[Mr. Philadel]

Kelly Pavlik is fighting the perfect fight.

-Emmanual Stuard (2 minutes remain in round 1)

true....I was like wtf is this mofo talkin' about?!?

[Heru]

Yeah, last night we heard some terribly biased commentary.

I like when they were degrading Martinez' punching power and Sergio just started beating the **** out of Pavlik and having Kelly close to quitting.

Kellerman would have changed the whole tone of the commentary to that fight.

[paulf]

I liked how they kept saying Pavlik was "outboxing" Martinez. What fight were they watching?

Martinez landed fewer shots than Kelly in like two rounds. And the final Compubox number's weren't even close.

Pavlik got dominated.