Comments Thread For: Merchant Hopes To Speak To Mayweather After The Fight

[spoonwars]

"To me, there are no tough questions if you have the answers." Well said.

In other words, Mayweather doesn't have the answer to the Pacquiao question yet. And he won't have it on May 5th either. He said it himself.

[elfag]

The audience weighed in by "walking out." Larry simply asked him to offer a response to that. You may not have liked the wording of the questions, but it simply amounts to the same thing.

Its not any one interview or question done by larry merchant, its the general trend over the course of many years of biased commentary and biased interviewing by larry merchant with regards to mayweather.

It may have been factual but its him asking the most negative question he could. Mayweather beat the lineal champion by a shutout without breaking a sweat. He cant take issue with mayweathers performance (winning all rounds) or mayweathers competition (lineal champion) so he picks the biggest negative he can find. Its not this one question, its a trend going over years of him being biased against floyd. What does he ask floyd after the Ortiz fight, he brings up floyds "sucker punch" without even mentioning Ortiz's headbutts, the reason they were broken up in the first place, again, asked taking the biggest negative stance against floyd as he can.

[imisupu]

If you don't believe Merchant is racist go look at all the interviews he did with Dominant black fighters RJJ, Tyson, Whitaker, B-Hop, Mayweather, then look at the Pavlik,Oscar, Pacman he just don't like blacks and believe me HBO will make a mistake sending Merchant in the ring Floyd said no interview there will be no interview with Merchant!

[Syf]

If floyd somehow KO cotto or beat cotto so bad u best bet Floyd will stick around after the fight.

I agree Floyd likes attention too much to let Merchant get the last laugh. I actually picture Merchant kissing MW's ass all fight long in hopes of Floyd giving him that validating interview. Basically if Floyd shuts out Merchant its over for the old man because Floyd is HBO's cash cow in the long term, and HBO will want to use an interviewer that that cash cow will actually speak with. He will be on his best behavior I bet ya, eager to prove he is not a hater despite overwhelming evidence to the contrary. Who knows, if Larry is a good lil boy Floyd might even let him interview him.

[Benny_Blanco787]

Should be interesting...

[Pocket Dogs!]

Merchant is a DOCUMENTED Floyd hater and a racist.

Merchant is far from a racist. He just has a bias towards a particular fighting style. He highly prefers brawls over tactical, strategic fights. Give me one example of where Larry Merchant is a racist.

[Phil Ivey]

20 Larry Merchants have tried, 20 have failed.

[switchsouthpaw]

Merchant calls it like he sees it, that doesn't stand well with Mayweather.

Well said.

[misterced]

get max kellermen up there why is larry still there really

[Larry the boss]

aint gone happen son