Comments Thread For: HBO’s Jim Lampley Memorizing His May 2 Line

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By Lyle Fitzsimmons - You might think a blow-by-blow guy like Jim Lampley arrives at ringside with a knapsack of rehearsed phrases to pull out at the exact moment a fight gets all dramatic and compelling.

You might think that. But you’d be wrong.

Instead, the imminent International Boxing Hall of Fame inductee insists, his pre-fight carry-on includes as little paper as he can get away with, and—with a soon-to-be exception on May 2—no scripting.

For that special Saturday night in Las Vegas, even his own rules are meant to be broken.

“Normally, I would have nothing,” he said. “But in this particular instance, I do have one line that I am planning, hoping that I will use at the very outset of the fight, either before the opening bell or immediately after the opening bell. That line has been evolving in my mind for six years.

“And that's the only one. I'll tell you the day after the fight whether I actually got that sentence in or whether it gets lost in the flow of everything else. But I do have an observation that I'm planning to make which is in my head and I think I'll probably make it around the time of the opening bell.” [Click Here To Read More]

[Sugar Adam Ali]

Will probably be "****, ****, ****"

[HanzGruber]

It's not gonna be hard to memorize jim. DOWN GOES PACQUIAO!! Not again!! God please no not again!!

[jas]

The two greatest fighters of our era stand across the ring from each other looking at the best fighter they will ever have faced in their legendary careers.

[Johnwoo8686]

I was going to say "****, ****, ****" but somebody beat me to it.

[Dempsey-Roll]

Aaaaand, boom goes the dynamite.

[Carpe Diem]

Let me guess. "Good straight left hand by, Pacquaio. Another straight left down the pipe by, Pacquiao. He's landing the straight left hand very accurately against, Mayweather."

No need to remember your line. 90% of hardcore boxing fans know that Lampley will be pro-Pacquiao and anti-Mayweather on fight night. Roy and Al Bernstein will do their best to call the fight how they see it. They'll be carrying the deadweight known as Jim Lampley on fight night.

[Build That Wall]

Lampley is a Jabroni.

[Build That Wall]

Let me guess. "Good straight left hand by, Pacquaio. Another straight left down the pipe by, Pacquiao. He's landing every punch against, Manny.

No need to remember your line. 90% hardcore boxing fans know that Lampley will be pro-Pacquiao and anti-Mayweather on fight night. Roy and Al Bernstein will do their best to call the fight how they see it. They'll be carrying the deadweight known as Jim Lampley on fight night.

Al Bernstein is hopefully going to keep Lampley in Check. Lampley might make Jim Watt look like a Genius on May 2nd.

[Johnwoo8686]

Let me guess. "Good straight left hand by, Pacquaio. Another straight left down the pipe by, Pacquiao. He's landing every punch against, Manny.

No need to remember your line. 90% hardcore boxing fans know that Lampley will be pro-Pacquiao and anti-Mayweather on fight night. Roy and Al Bernstein will do their best to call the fight how they see it. They'll be carrying the deadweight known as Jim Lampley on fight night.

That is so true... I cringed at his remarks during the Ortiz fight. Saying Ortiz was landing punches on Floyd that weren't even landing. He was fully in Ortiz's corner acting as a cheer leader.

Even though Bradley lost the first fight with Pacquiao, Lampley made it seem like it was a shut out. I clearly saw Bradley win at least four rounds in the first fight with Manny but if you listen to Lampley it was a white wash.

If this fight is close at all the world is going to think Manny won due to Lampley's biased commentary. We know he'll be pulling for Manny and HBO shouldn't allow someone so openly biased to call one of the biggest fights in boxing history.