Announcers- HBO or Showtime

[William Blake]

Johnson can be a little much, but he's not bad. Lampley says "As if to say" more than anyone should commentating on a boxing match. Bernstein is my favorite out of all of them. Unbiased and tells it how it is. Merchant and Kellerman to lesser extent get on my nerves at times. RJJ and Steward always say "This is exactly what I though would happen." Even if it is, they need to offer more. Tarver is very well spoken and has very good points. But on HBO, it feels like an event. It doesn't always feel that way with Showtime.

The "Big Event" feel with HBO could be due, in large part, to the production values they bring to the table. HBO simply has more money to spend than Showtime.

[Hitman Hodgson]

I'd say Showtime. HBO seems a bit stale now and Merchant just seems to complain about the fight. I wish Steward was as insightfull as Tarver, he does seem a bit dull sometimes. Bernstein is my favourite though. I didn't mind Teddy Atlas on ESPN apart from the fact I can't understand what he's saying a lot of the time.

[Motofan]

HBO. And by days. I can hardly listen to Gus (who doesn't know **** all about Boxing) yelling "Where is this man? Where did he go?!?" round after round. He is a ****ing hack who is obviously a sports announcer more than a Boxing one. Tarver and Al are ok though. But Jim and Larry FTW.

[fceeviper]

I voted even. I can't really pick who I dislike least.

But I do like Al Bernstein, and Tarver on Sho and Max Kellerman, Roy Jones, and Bob Papa on HBO. I can only take so much of Larry, Jim and Gus.

Gus Johnson was all-time bad when commentating Juanma-Salido. He was horrible the whole fight.

Just lets Al Bernstein talk and provide a few color commentary comments.

Gus was just awful.

Agreed, Gus was just horrible on Sat. He should just stick to MMA.

[jakdariipa]

Excellent points Blake. To me big fights just dont seem the same on anything but HBO.

[-Hyperion-]

Bernstein is overrated to ****....decent dude, but he thinks he knows more than he actually does, and is close to lampley in calling punches wrong(as in calling a landed punch, that didnt or saying the wrong punch did damage)...he also starts calling the fight compared to his pre-fight expectations...the guy does love boxing though, so he is not bad....just not that great...

Lampley is great when he has no bias and/or he cares at least a bit for the fight(he can be pretty disinterested in some bouts....HBO as a whole is guilty of this....)

Tarver and RJJ are the best color commentators....obvious flaws because theyre not trained, but they bring insight and things only boxers of their caliber know...charismatic dudes as well.

Merchant can bust out greatness sometimes...but he is just too old/cranky now....sucks a bit of life out of the fight....and even more if his personal biases cloud his calling of the fight.

Kellerman loves boxing too, he just needs to stop trying so hard to appear hardcore...and as all of HBO, tone down the bias.

Gus Johnson tries too hard sometimes to be the exciting blow by blow guy, but his enthusiasm is good for the fights...he is only gonna get better....

I give the slight edge to HBO because of Lampley's voice....even when he is annoying as fu.ck(like Pac-JMM III), his voice is just the best. But SHO is up there...specially since they're not over-exploiting so called punch-stats yet...hopefully they keep like this and they'll surpass HBO as Tarver and Johnson get better.

I'd take SKY over both, but if you factor in the in-ring Audio, SKY loses a bunch of points...The sound of punches adds a lot to the broadcast...and HBO definatly has the best in ring audio(i still curse the fact that the only HBO fight where the audio was complete **** happened to be Angulo-Kirkland imagine how more brutal that fight would seem if you could hear those punches properly....)

[sweetscience18]

I will take any one of them over Lederman

[William Blake]

HBO. And by days. I can hardly listen to Gus (who doesn't know **** all about Boxing) yelling "Where is this man? Where did he go?!?" round after round. He is a ****ing hack who is obviously a sports announcer more than a Boxing one. Tarver and Al are ok though. But Jim and Larry FTW.

You're right...the "where is juanma?" was grating on my nerves----though "NUTS AND GUTS FOLKS" turned it around

[Ringlife]

I like them both.

[-DSG-]

roy jones is the best commentater