Comments Thread For: HBO's Lampley Slams Mayweather, Draws Criticism

[Infamous]

Wtf does domestic violence have to do with boxing? Did jimmy really turn to gossip for ratings? This is HBO not fox or msnbc I understood the steroid piece on JMM after Pac got decapitated, but this???

[peplz]

what does pac have to do with this???

Hypocrisy!

[anonymous2.0]

For some reason his ranting seems reminiscent of the same kind of hate Jack Johnson got.

[Mr. Philadel]

Jim Lampley’s show-closing criticism of Floyd Mayweather Jr. on the newest episode of his HBO show late Tuesday night left Lampley a target of widespread criticism on Twitter and other social media sites Wednesday.

The HBO blow-by-blow announcer asserted in his final comments on “The Fight Game With Jim Lampley” that there’s no place in boxing for Mayweather’s increasingly boorish behavior and added the sport’s pound-for-pound king couldn’t retire soon enough. Boxing fans and writers have denounced Lampley’s assessment as an agenda-driven attack because Mayweather, once HBO’s flagship fighter, performs exclusively on Showtime as part of a six-fight, 30-month contract he signed with CBS, Showtime’s parent company, in February 2013.


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Lampley is just salty...I'll be at the BHop-Frankenstein fight in AC and I'm gonna try my best to smack the saltine outta his salty ass ....**** that hateful mother****a!!....Lampley ain't safe in these streets lol

[billeau2]

You tell 'em, Jim!

Wait...weren't you arrested for beating the **** out of your lady a few years back? I remember.

I had the exact same thought....SUch IRONY!! Replete with the clique regarding rocks and glass houses. Do these people have no shame?

[Lou Cipher]

Lampley hit a homerun with this commentary! He's 10000% right. Floyd should expect this now that his REAL drawing power has been exposed. Fighting inexperienced superstars then publicly claiming their fans as your own is almost as pathetic as his Pac duck job. Kudos to the Lampster!

[bigjavi973]

Well he def knows the truth. I wonder if Lamps thinks we should boycott Lamps

[j.one]

HBO did it to Tyson as well...once a fighter leaves them, they say nothing but negative about them.

[bigjavi973]

This what doesn't make sense to me. Showtime is in the business of making money. If they were losing money because of Floyd, why not tear up the contract? Or at least publicly blast Floyd for "ducking" the fights that could make them money? They seem to be doing the opposite. Espinoza has continually said he ain't f.uck'n with Arum, essentially killing the Manny fight.

You can't just tear up a contract or put it out in the open. It stays behind close doors. Mayweather's marketability is his ppv #s, his precious "0" and the money he generates. If they put it out there that they are losing money, that would damage his career and image.

[Realizniguhnit]

You can't just tear up a contract or put it out in the open. It stays behind close doors. Mayweather's marketability is his ppv #s, his precious "0" and the money he generates. If they put it out there that they are losing money, that would damage his career and image.

If Mayweather was losing networks money he wouldn't be clearing 32 million dollars per fight... It doesn't work like that.. Especially for companies like CBS that have new NFL deal, If Floyd was a weak link they'd can him, simple. They're doing just the opposite..

And your video is misleading, Maidana WAS wearing punchers gloves. It wouldn't have made a difference either way, Maidana came in way to light to hurt Floyd he's nothing but a lightweight