Comments Thread For: Larry Merchant's Take on Pacquiao vs. Marquez III

[PacTard]

Beat me to it. I might have been a bit more politic about it, but thanks.

Green to ya'.

No worries. I thought it was a great fight. Wouldn't have surprised me one bit if Marquez got the decision. He fought a great fight. It just irritates me when people call a close fight a "robbery." It completely devalues true robberies like Lara-Williams.

[Weebler I]

So many people crying over Merchants interview. Merchant's opinion is more valuable than anyone on this website. In one corner we have a boxing analyst that sits ringside for almost EVERY major fight, and has countless conversations with fighters, media people, promoters, etc. In the other corner we have mostly illiterate, degenerate, dropouts living off of welfare checks in their mommies basement.

Yeah. That fight is nowhere near as close as the PAC-JMM fight...

And in that sense he's also conditioned by boxing, he spends the interview conveying why the judges scored it the way they did repeating some of the Lampley/Steward phrases.

The world class pro fighters? they all called it to Marquez, like most of the viewers.

Kellerman was most unbiased of the HBO crew, he called it a 6-6 draw. I actually think a little more of him for that.

[JibbaJabber]

Merchant brings out the emotions from haters with truth.

well let me bring out your emotions with truth *******.. awwww de la hoya admits pacroid and arum are ducking the mayweather fight lmao..

[JibbaJabber]

No worries. I thought it was a great fight. Wouldn't have surprised me one bit if Marquez got the decision. He fought a great fight. It just irritates me when people call a close fight a "robbery." It completely devalues true robberies like Lara-Williams.

i wasn't a close fight.. marquez dominated and shut out pacroid.. dont try to clean it up.. i seen you on here yappin last week.. btw i though marquez was going to get ko'd in the 6th round rememer all that bull****.. ohhh you think you can just run away from your words now.. oh no..

[MindBat]

He said what I expected him to say......

Why would we expect anything different?

[edgarg]

He never disagrees with his HBO crew, he rarely does. It would be bad for (HBO) business.

No surprise here.

That's not accurate. One of his main attributes for HBO is that he usually DOES disagree with the rest of the crew. Apart from his accurate analyses,this is one of the main reasons he's been there for so long. The in screen instant controversies he arouses with his comments.

[lefthook2daliva]

No worries. I thought it was a great fight. Wouldn't have surprised me one bit if Marquez got the decision. He fought a great fight. It just irritates me when people call a close fight a "robbery." It completely devalues true robberies like Lara-Williams.

I did too. All their fights are great. Thought this one was the one most clearly controlled by JMM, but I've seen worse decisions as well. This one is hard to take though as it was the 2nd or 3rd such.

[SdBoxingFan83]

Why is Boxingscene even acknowlidging what this ******* thinks, I wish they would have a Roy Jones doing the hbo commentary , so he could school all of those *******s to see how it really went down, I remember Jones Jr owning Merchant when he was on Pacquiaos Nuts in the 1st fight where he says I think Morales is beating him to the Punch Larry , You have never been in the Ring yourself . Phuk this old mans opinion

[SdBoxingFan83]

well let me bring out your emotions with truth *******.. awwww de la hoya admits pacroid and arum are ducking the mayweather fight lmao..

There you Go *******s, From Dlh himself, Bob arum doesnt want to fight Mayweather, and im not even a Mayweather Fan but I recognize the man as p4p#1 he has the best skills in the game and is one of the smartest , No way in Hell arum wants that fight, and like DLh said *******s this 4th fight shouldnt be happening . *******s so the truth comes out, your pacquiao demigod was just an Illusion and a Hypejob . He is still that *****ass made one dimensional fool , that looks ordinary with Marquez and im sure any other smart counterpuncher

[UglyPug]

people are getting carried away with the marquez domination. . . it was a very close fight. . . it's just people get carried away because the marquez rounds were much more convincing than the pac rounds. . . it's certainy easier to justify a marquez win, but you can justify a 115-113 pac win. . . I think it's a draw after rewatching a few times with no commentators. . . maybe a 115-113 marquez victory. . . it is what it is.. . we can only move forward and hope that pac and may settle their score first, and then marquez gets one last crack. . . . LOVE BOTH THESE FIGHTERS - both are what boxing is all about. .. A RIVALRY FOR THE AGES!!! the ALI/FRAZIER OF OUR FISTIC ERA!!!!