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HBO once again exposes their hypocrisy
The HBO commentary crew really did an excellent job tonight of reflecting the spotlight back onto themselves, and exposing their own hypocrisy. For years we've listened to them read from the teleprompter, and go off on unscripted tangents about how horrible decisions are ruining our great sport of boxing, and how judges need to be held accountable for their scorecards.
Remember Santa Cruz/Casamayor? What about Williams/Lara? Or Lewis/Holyfield? Or any number of the other numerous outright robberies, that HBO has publicly cried foul at, over the course of the last 15 years? But where were those voice tonight? Not that I'm saying Marquez won by as wide a margin as Jose Luis Santa Crus should have against Joel Casamayor, or Lennox Lewis should have Evander Holyfield : But the point is the same, ALL poor decisions are bad for the sport - regardless of how wide the margin of "victory" is scored.
Tonight, we saw a 38 year old modern legend of the sport, put on a career-defining performance, only to get jobbed on the judges scorecards, for the SECOND time against the very same opponet. But tonight, Marquez's performance was much more clear-cut than his narrow split-decision "loss" to Manny Pacquiao in their rematch nearly 4 years ago. On my card (and on the cards of A LOT of other boxing fans), Marquez won by at least 2-3 points.
But when the decision was read aloud, and Pacquiao had "won" (by a ridiculous score of 116-112 on one judges' scorecard), where was Jim Lampley's typically emotional response to scoring injustices? Where was Max Kellerman's typical cries of "robbery"? And how the hell does Harold Lederman still even have a job, when his scoring is always so out-of-sync with what most fight fans actually saw?
Nowhere to be found, that's where. Because Manny Pacquiao is the goose that laid the golden egg, or at least he is in the eyes of his corporate giant lovers, HBO, anyway. There's no way in hell they would even acknowledge the obvious loss of "their" guy, especially not when they stand to make enough cash to fill up the MGM Grand, with a potential Mayweather/Pacquiao event.
I was also completely disgusted by their attempt to downplay the blatantly obvious outrage over the announcement of the official decision, by calling the overwhelming amount of fans in the arena who were boo'ing, and pelting press row with beverages, a, and I'm quoting here - "vocal minority".
That's rich.
Bottom line - This decision did nothing but piss off most boxing fans, and HBO really dropped the ball in their attempt to call the fight from anything but a biased manner. Hats off to Juan Manuel Marquez for fighting the fight of his life at the age of 38, I just hope he doesn't decide to hang them up in disgust after this, as he seems to be contemplating.Comment
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Puga Lederman voted for Pac??????????
NO!!! Really????
What a surprise!!
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAH!!!!!Comment
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The poll is a fucking landslide for Marquez already, 20-5.
Suck on that. Marquez was robbed, period.Comment
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In about 15 to 20 minutes all the biased, blind, passionate, fanboys of Pac will log on to their numerous ALTS and come and vote for Pac just watch!
Everyone with 2 good eyes and some sort of boxing knowledge and is capable of being objective knows Marquez won this fight!
****, I heard that even Khan said that Marquez won.
HAHAHAHA!!!Comment
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