DO you all agree with Mayweather when he said...

[Mr. Philadel]

I don't think some dude who has watched a millon fights for a 100 years has the right to bash someone for not brawling....like does that mofo know what it feels like to get hit flush in the face or or in the chin?!?...does that mofo know what it feels like to have his vision blurred from head shots?!?...WTF do he know besides who beat who and when?!?....not a ***ing thing imo....he's no better than me or some other dude who love the sport and come on here and talk our 2 pennies...dude just wear a suit and tie and gets paid to be a fan...thats all he is!!...no expert!!

[champ_kw]

I agree to a certain extent. It really gets me when people who've never been between the ropes start down talking a boxer for non sensical things such as courage, fear, or heart. It's cool to nitpick technique and ability, I just think its "heard" differently when a non boxer speak on the inner makings of a fighter. Those guys are a different breed and that aspect should be respected by everyone who don't have it in them to box.

[CHOWWOKKA]

They should get RJJ Tarver and James Toney to commentate.

RJJ: Hey Toney, remember when I whooped yo as5?

Tarver: Hey Roy, you remember when I whooped yo as5?

Toney: urrrrrmble urrrmble burrrrble detro-bbbbbble murrrrble durrrrble boxing.

And Hopkins could be the ref just so they could have someone to hate on.

[icebergisonfire]

I don't give a **** where you live or who you like. You said Merchant will forget more about boxing than we will ever know. His years of being around the sport gives him insight that we are not fortunate to gain.

Floyd has spent his ENTIRE life around the sport, is a 2nd generation boxer, Olympic medalist, and his family is all about the sport. I would think floyd's years around the sport COUPLED WITH his experience in the ring, which Merchant lacks, gives him both insight and experience.

THat why I posted what I did.

Blah, blah, blah, blah, blah.

You are basically trying to say that a man that has been around boxing longer than Floyd has been alive isn't qualified to speak on the subject. That is asinine to the nth degree. Reggie Miller was a great basketball player, but Marv Albert is the stronger of the two at play by play during basketball games. So, you can continue to argue ad nauseam but the fact of the matter is that you don't just need to be a boxer to point out things that are going on in the ring. They have picked up on enough things to see the nuances of a sport. You can not sit there and tell me that with the amount of tape and footage that they watch of these fights and times spent with these fighters that they have no business commentating on a fight.

[djtmal]

next thing you know, fmj, will have in the contract, that he will only fight manny pacquaio, if larry merchant isn't commentating...fmj, makes far too much money, to really care about who does a post fight interview, which amounts to a small fraction of time, than the time spent in the ring boxing, during the actual fight...fmj, is very slick, in dodging a fight with manny pacquaio, and justifying why manny pacquaio, will never get a 50/50 split in a fight, so it should be fairly easy for fmj, to handle hard questions during a post fight interview for 3 minutes, without losing his cool...

[tredh]

Blah, blah, blah, blah, blah.

You are basically trying to say that a man that has been around boxing longer than Floyd has been alive isn't qualified to speak on the subject. That is asinine to the nth degree. Reggie Miller was a great basketball player, but Marv Albert is the stronger of the two at play by play during basketball games. So, you can continue to argue ad nauseam but the fact of the matter is that you don't just need to be a boxer to point out things that are going on in the ring. They have picked up on enough things to see the nuances of a sport. You can not sit there and tell me that with the amount of tape and footage that they watch of these fights and times spent with these fighters that they have no business commentating on a fight.

They every right to commentate but that isn't what Merchant does. Merchant treats the broadcast like its his op-ed piece for a newspaper. We don't need to hear fighters talked down about because they are not fighting in a style the commentators feels they should be. Commentators job is to talk about the action in the fight not about what they feel should be happening in the fight and why they don't like it.

That is the only problem that I have with commentators like Merchant.

[icebergisonfire]

They every right to commentate but that isn't what Merchant does. Merchant treats the broadcast like its his op-ed piece for a newspaper. We don't need to hear fighters talked down about because they are not fighting in a style the commentators feels they should be. Commentators job is to talk about the action in the fight not about what they feel should be happening in the fight and why they don't like it.

That is the only problem that I have with commentators like Merchant.

I know he is an *******. I'm not dis*****g that. If he took off his edge in his interviews, he's be fine.

[tredh]

next thing you know, fmj, will have in the contract, that he will only fight manny pacquaio, if larry merchant isn't commentating...fmj, makes far too much money, to really care about who does a post fight interview, which amounts to a small fraction of time, than the time spent in the ring boxing, during the actual fight...fmj, is very slick, in dodging a fight with manny pacquaio, and justifying why manny pacquaio, will never get a 50/50 split in a fight, so it should be fairly easy for fmj, to handle hard questions during a post fight interview for 3 minutes, without losing his cool...

I don't think its the question being asked I think its the way the questions are worded and the tone used. If you trained for months on end and won a fight. I think you too would take offense to some guy who never fought in his life talking down to you about your performance. How he didn't like it and telling you how he feels you should have fought regardless of the outcome. Thats disrespectful and uncalled for. Merchant has every right to have an opinion but its not his right to use the HBO broadcast to tell his opinion to everyone watching cause its not his job to do that. If I'm wrong about that being his job then I stand corrected.

[tredh]

I know he is an *******. I'm not dis*****g that. If he took off his edge in his interviews, he's be fine.

I can agree with that.

[The Big Dunn]

Blah, blah, blah, blah, blah.

You are basically trying to say that a man that has been around boxing longer than Floyd has been alive isn't qualified to speak on the subject. That is asinine to the nth degree. Reggie Miller was a great basketball player, but Marv Albert is the stronger of the two at play by play during basketball games. So, you can continue to argue ad nauseam but the fact of the matter is that you don't just need to be a boxer to point out things that are going on in the ring. They have picked up on enough things to see the nuances of a sport. You can not sit there and tell me that with the amount of tape and footage that they watch of these fights and times spent with these fighters that they have no business commentating on a fight.

I never said that so you don't need to twist the argument. And Marv does paly by play, reggie is the game analyst. 2 different jobs. Reggie is an analyst because he played.

In boxing, Lampley does the blow by blow. STeward is the analyst. Merchant does niether.

My point is to assume merchant knows more than a fighter, who has experience in and out, simply because he is old is ridiculous.