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

[RockyB]

I do prefer HBO commentary over other channels though.
HBO is much more entertaining. As boxing fans, most of us doesnt need analysts that tells us every move the boxer makes am i right?

"Jab, oh right hand! another jab!" no **** sherlock..

I always like when Lampley tells us stories from their lives and stuff.

(By all means, Sky sports arent bad i just prefer HBO. )

[-DSG-]

larry was all on pavliks nuts!!!

[xcaret v3]

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.

lol i asked myself the same question...pavlik was never outboxing martinez

[M.I.C.]

hahahaha

I remember that, I was like wtf? its only been a minute

yeah it was a WTF moment for me to, Pavlik only met the guy in the middle of the ring!!

[big_james10]

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

Is this a rhetorical question? If you have watched HBO fights in the past, you would know that the commentators (especially Jim and Larry) have their favorite fighters. Those fighters can do no wrong and, on the rare occasions that they do criticize them, it is very light. On the other hand, they virtually never have anything positive to say about Mayweather regardless of what he does or how well he does it. When they do say something positive about him it is usually qualified (ex: they might say in the Mosley fight that: Mayweather fought a spectacular fight tonight, but he was fighting a man past his prime) or they follow it with a negative comment.

[big_james10]

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.

They also mentioned numerous times that Martinez had a weak left hand. However, Pavlik's right eye would beg to differ.

[Slick_Rick]

Maybe I heard wrong but did Lampley say Pavlik beat Meldrick Taylor?

[catalinul]

Maybe I heard wrong but did Lampley say Pavlik beat Meldrick Taylor?

Yes he did say that.

Honest mistake though.