Another big reason why Showtime >> HBO

[Kevin Malone]

no mention of Max slurping Roy's testicles every 30secs?

or Roy's references to God...

[Deeznuts]

So the commentators are negative but HBO is still the best boxing broadcaster.

[Kevin Malone]

So the commentators are negative but HBO is still the best boxing broadcaster.

I like their graphics, camerawork, and picture quality the best. Best broadcaster though? Debatable.

[Deeznuts]

HBO televises better fights..showtime doesnt compare

[SkillspayBills]

Max tends to bring everyone down with his constant negativity. It's pretty freaking annoying to be honest with you. There is a fight in front of you, how about...........i don't know.........focusing on it.

[koolttt]

or Roy's references to God...

i agree. roy needs to chill with the religious talk. for me hbo>showtime

[Code Red]

I'd rather they give their negative opinions then just say positive crap written for them

This^^


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[Libido Sanchez]

HBO gets heavily criticized for being a hype machine. If the commentary were to swing more "positive" they would really get heat from hardcore fans.

To me it's a little bit ironic that Max Kellerman gets criticized so much as he, in a sense, represents the hardcore fan on the HBO broadcast team. C'mon, so many posters on here are negative as hell and each boxer is criticized every day for every little thing they do or don't do, even stuff that isn't boxing related. NSB can be a pretty negative place so in a way Max represents that aspect of hardcore boxing fans. I mean if Max all of a sudden starts talking about Pac out of nowhere you all have read a thread where somebody mentions Floyd or Pac for no good reason at all...

[Porter's Dad]

The problem is when Max is bring up Pac and Floyd it has NOTHING to do with the fight going on they are covering. I like Max's analysis and I've always appreciate his honesty, but cover the fight you are watching, stop reminicing about the old days and what could be, and be excited about having one of the best jobs in the world covering the best sport in the world.

Last night they were ripping into Mikey Garcia because he wasn't exciting and the fans were supposedly bored. Mikey had a bad stomach ache and wanted to quit after the 2nd round. He then stops Remillard and was clearly outclassing him. Mikey has looked better than he looked last night.

Dude, exactly. The constant Pac/Floyd references are tiresome.

And the part where Lederman ripped on Mikey for not getting Remillard out of there p*ssed me off. It was the tone he used too, like.....Garcia was wasting Lederman's precious time by actually, you know, breaking the guy down before going in for the kill.

They are so desperate for stars that when stars that when a prospect with some heat doesn't blitz someone in the first round, you can almost tell the palpable sense of disappointment that he's not the new Pac/Donaire/Sergio.

Can you imagine Al Bernstein saying "I don't know what the hell Mikey Garcia is doing, he needs to knock this guy out cos everyone is getting bored".

I mean, WTF.

[Porter's Dad]

HBO gets heavily criticized for being a hype machine. If the commentary were to swing more "positive" they would really get heat from hardcore fans.

To me it's a little bit ironic that Max Kellerman gets criticized so much as he, in a sense, represents the hardcore fan on the HBO broadcast team. C'mon, so many posters on here are negative as hell and each boxer is criticized every day for every little thing they do or don't do, even stuff that isn't boxing related. NSB can be a pretty negative place so in a way Max represents that aspect of hardcore boxing fans. I mean if Max all of a sudden starts talking about Pac out of nowhere you all have read a thread where somebody mentions Floyd or Pac for no good reason at all...

I personally don't want the NSB experience replicated on TV. It's tiresome enough on here.

Max loves the sport, he says things most of us are thinking.....but that is not the way to approach a broadcasting fight. Which other sport has a commentary team that constantly craps on it during a broadcast?