The Larry Merchant Effect

[louvega]

Larry Merchant knows his boxing.

[bMak]

larry merchant effect = high standards for boxing

Hope your trolling.

Larry Merchant effect= put down fighters and put down the sport, motivated by some agenda, and spread the hate out to the legions of people who'd rather not do their own thinking.

[DE100]

larry merchant effect = high standards for boxing

Merchant high standards = Two guys brawling it out.

Merchant sounds like someone that hates boxing, get him the hell off TV.

[Champ Is Here]

Getting rid of Merchant - not a loss

[bMak]

I dont know about all that. Merchant is annoying as hell sometimes but up until about the 8th Martinez wasnt looking like the pound for pound number 3 fighter in the world.

No argument there, but Sergio came through in the end. People complain about Floyd or Wlad fights because they aren't competitive and both guys fight conservative. Sergio has been tested by his last two opponents, competitive fights, then puts the exclamation point on them and people still complain.

Somewhat related, I hate some of Larry's ideas about the sport. Especially when he says **** like how can fighters be great without throwing combinations. What does that even mean? Why do you have to open yourself up to throw combinations to be seen as great at boxing?

[Roman Moreno]

Merchant can be garbage. You can get a bum off the street and he might do a better job than Merchant can.

But, tonight he was on point with what he was saying. Before the 8th round, Merchant pointed out that Martinez was throwing one punch at a time...Which is true he was. He said that Martinez wasn't giving the type of performance that a top 3 P4P fighter should be given. It's true he wasn't. He said that a true MW elite champion should be throwing combinations. It's true, and Martinez showed it when he did after the 8th when he dominated, destroyed, and got his opponent who wasn't in his class out of there.

[elfag]

I dont know about all that. Merchant is annoying as hell sometimes but up until about the 8th Martinez wasnt looking like the pound for pound number 3 fighter in the world.

There is no way anyone should have him ahead of JMM p4p. JMM just beat pac his last fight. Put it this way, if they were the same size, JMM would school Martinez with ease, and that is exactly the measurement of p4p rankings.

I think donaire is a better fighter p4p as well but his resume isnt as good as some of the other guys, though the guys martinez has been facing suck too.

[Khalid X]

Dont have HBO and Sergio is one of my favourite fighters but he did struggle for the first 6 or 7 rounds. Cant people accept a little criticism without crying?

That's what I'm saying. People on this board whine too much.

All Merchant was saying, in a nutshell, was for Martinez to show he is a class above Macklin and dominate.

There was nothing wrong with Merchants commentary.

[punchville]

Hope your trolling.

Larry Merchant effect= put down fighters and put down the sport, motivated by some agenda, and spread the hate out to the legions of people who'd rather not do their own thinking.

withou mearchnt , we'd be hearing nuthuggin percived sskills and **** without puttiing it down to work....i dont know about you but i like to see **** to believe ****...and thats where merchant is good at...

[sicko]

Larry Merchant job is to tell ****** PEOPLE/CASUAL FANS what they should think about a fight or fighter lol

and then come Monday they are running around repeating what Merchant was saying during the fight lol