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

[Mr.Daddy]

"**** zoom! You're going to the moon!" There you go, Jim Lampley. Jackie Gleason won't mind.

[Strategic1]

The moment has arrived. The fight to decide this era's best is here. Expectations are high, can they be met? We will see.

I expect something like that.

[SkillspayBills]

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.

"Where were you?" This will be one of those moments, right before the bell rings, where everyone will remember where they were.

[Johnwoo8686]

I have no problem with saying Bradley won 4 rounds, but to say he CLEARLY won 4 rounds is another issue. I think there was perhaps 1 round that was arguably clear - and even that is contentious. All the Bradley rounds you would give to Bradley were razor close rounds. The issue was that there were perhaps 7 razor close rounds and somehow the judges gave them ALL to Bradley, which is a bit of a joke.

A great example is the first round. It is a close round, but it is really a Pacquiao round. He lands 3 clean straight lefts in a row, by far and away the 3 best punches in the round. There's 1 or 2 other shots by Pacquiao, a couple of shots from Bradley - a good body shot. However a not-insignificant % of people claim Bradley CLEARLY won the 1st? I don't quite get it.

Pacquiao paid the price for coasting but it was still an awful decision. I get giving Bradley 4 rounds, but no more and it was NOT clear.

I seriously implore you to watch that fight without the commentary. Like I said in my original post, Jim Lampley's commentary combined with the roar from the crowd makes it seem as if Pacquiao did a lot more than he actually did.

[-Johannes-]

I thought they were talking about Merchant for a moment. That dude made a lot of memorable lines.

Lampley on the other hand? I can't think of any memorable lines to be honest. He says things to end a fight and whatnot at the end during their final discussion before they go off the air, but it's nothing worth remember.

Merchant on the other hand always came up with very memorable lines and comparisons. Love him or hate him, he was a true journalist/writer that just so happen to be calling fights.

What's more memorable than his **** outburst.

RAGING BULL Chavez!!!! was also a magnificent line.

[mikinoki]

After floyd gets ko!Jim jumps in the ring!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a9z8F4fgj6Q

[-MAKAVELLI-]

as soon as the opening bell sounds, Lampley is gonna yell 'KILL THAT MOTHER****ER MANNY!!'



that's the rehearsed line

[Motofan]

I like Jim, but there is no way he calls this fair. The guy's entire tv show is ripping on Mayweather.

[Motofan]

as soon as the opening bell sounds, Lampley is gonna yell 'KILL THAT MOTHER****ER MANNY!!'



that's the rehearsed line

This is probably not far off.

[-MAKAVELLI-]

This is probably not far off.

"...KILL THAT MOTHER****ER MANNY!! **** **** **** ****!!!!"



they have remove Jim...its just Roy and Al Bernstein the rest of the night