HBOS Hack Job actually made people think that fight was close.

[Dudley]

**** Lampley dude. Seriously. **** him. He pissed me off.

That round where they traded hooks all you heard was "Hard left hook by Provodnikov!"

**** him.

Swaying the audience into watching... I think that might be on their agenda because anyone watching this fight knew it was a mismatch on paper. Lucas fought with guys who can hit hard in his past, Maidana, so he knows his way around the ring with heavy handed fighters.

I was just surprised Provo literally ran into a guy who built off of Algeri's gameplan.

I think they have to sell it because hbo has to sell a product, hbo boxing. And if their product doesn't sell, they don't have jobs.

[mathed]

Matts won 8 rounds imo.

[DeadLikeMe]

The commentary was laughable. You have Lampley calling phantom punches for Provodnikov in the meantime Matthysse is landing 2-3 punch combos at will. Where was all this Provodnikov body punching they kept talking about? They were literally making it up, like Provodnikov is getting outlanded 4-1, lets pretend he is doing really great body work instead of ineffective headhunting.

[Dr Rumack]

I think they have to sell it because hbo has to sell a product, hbo boxing. And if their product doesn't sell, they don't have jobs.

I think that's much more true of Kellerman and even Roy than it is of Lampley.

Lampley just gets ****** into a narrative and literally can't see anything else. The main reason for this is that he doesn't do true 'blow by blow'. He spends most of his time doing 'analysis' instead.

I know some people don't like Mauro Ranallo, but he is a proper blow by blow commentator. He describes what's actually happening in detail, like all the great commentators do.

[Guest]

Lampley is so ****ing bias I see why mayweather didn't want him to be on the broadcast.

It's biasED, you ****ing idiot. This is BASIC English FFS.

[NEETzsche]

The commentary was laughable. You have Lampley calling phantom punches for Provodnikov in the meantime Matthysse is landing 2-3 punch combos at will. Where was all this Provodnikov body punching they kept talking about? They were literally making it up, like Provodnikov is getting outlanded 4-1, lets pretend he is doing really great body work instead of ineffective headhunting.

i think it's because matthysse landed so many clean punches that if they called all of them they'd never catch their breath; it's almost as if the novelty wore off. whereas provodnikov's success was more sporadic therefore it seemed like a bigger deal when it happened. it's not conscious bias.

[BattleAxePurist]

HBO was turrible the whole night both broadcasts, the Crawford fight was even worse Dulorme got no credit for anything and all they talked about was Crawford "doing boxing things you know".

[UL1210]

I didn't watch the fight on HBO and I thought it was close. I had Lucas up 6-1 after 7 and honestly thought he may stop him. I thought Prov won 8 & 11 clearly, stole 9 & 10 with big punches late in the last 30 seconds, and the last round I had a draw bc I didn't see either guy do much of anything. Final on my card was 115-114 for Matthysse.

[MPX309]

I think some of the rounds were close, but Matthysse deserved the win, and combubox rightly reflects that.

[joseph5620]

Most people don't score fights and then are outraged in the end because it doesn't line up with their perception of the fight. Overall Lucas clearly commanded the fight but based on rounds it was close.

That's exactly what it is. I had it 7-5 Matthysse. This belief that he dominated the entire fight or won 9 or 10 rounds is simply not true.