Comments Thread For: HBO's Lampley: Taints Pacquiao's Career, Bad for Boxing

[anonymous2.0]

You know you dun goofed up when one of the boxing pundits on a premier boxing network, who by the way has a big man crush on you, turns on you.

[Godsfly]

Lol perfect choice of image. In all seriousness though, Pacquiao entering the ring injured without telling anyone was not a great decision on his part or anyone on his team involved in it. Postponing the fight would have been the best decision, even getting the injection on the night of may not have been the wisest choice. It would have made maybe some difference in the fight but it more certainly would have exacerbated an injury already in need of surgery. For the record though, none of this changes my stance on wanting to watching a remtach.

he didn't enter the ring injured..........thats not his claim. his claim is that he had a minor injury 3 weeks before. which turned into a big injury as the fight went on. he then goes on to say that mayweather twisted his arm through out the fight and tore it that way. (he actually said this) do you know how ret@rded that makes him and his fanbase look? the guy is obviously out of control with the excuses...........

[Doctor_Tenma]

Pacquiao has a deep hole to climb out of

[Robbie Barrett]

Let's see what Lampley says after the rematch, which Floyd already OKd.

Arum, HBO and Showtime need to OK it before anything happens. Then there's the negotiations, Pacquiao isn't going to get more than a 25% split IMO. Unlikely a rematch happens.

[vxrandall]

1st off...wow...lampley has been riding pac's johnson for years. WOW
2nd...this has been a set up from day 1 imho. haymon holds all the cards and HBO knows it so they've had to play ball on this from day 1.
as far as i'm concerned Pac was also going to be patsy. the key is whether they could find a way to sell a rematch. the storytelling here is WWE-esque. only played out in front of millions of poot gullible fools who think its still a noble, real sport.
naaaaa
pac was paid to do as he was told. koncz and arum made good coin for their end. HBO took the best they could get.
they've concocted a semi plausible injury story and the more hoo-hah that goes on around it the more the herd will buy it.
floyd will fight for ****z and gigglz in september and then fight pac in a rematch in april 2016 on the anniversary of marciano's retirement in the new MGM grand garden open air arena to become 50-0.
and you, me and every other dopey sunt will pay top coin AGAIN for the privilege
LOLZ

[Weebler I]

You know you dun goofed up when one of the boxing pundits on a premier boxing network, who by the way has a big man crush on you, turns on you.

Lampley turned on him before the fight, that much was clear in his commentary on the night. I think he figures he can get some personal mileage out of it.

[Robbie Barrett]

SURPRISE SURPRISE !!!!! women beaters sticking together , lampley just exposed himself as a woman beating bandwagon jumping punk with know morales !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Oh ****..........

[BrometheusBob.]

Arum, HBO and Showtime need to OK it before anything happens. Then there's the negotiations, Pacquiao isn't going to get more than a 25% split IMO. Unlikely a rematch happens.

Oh yeah, plus there is the fact that he still has to get past the surgery and subsequent recovery. A rematch is not a certainty, but at least the fighters have both expressed interest/willingness to participate in one.

[Kagami Taiga]

Hard to argue with any of the points. Team Pacquaio dropped the ball. You do not go into a fight with Floyd Mayweather at less than 100%.

leave it to u to defend roach. hahahahaha. he talked, talked, talked during the lead up to the fight. all he did was run his mouth about how pac was gonna destroy floyd and he was ready. yet, he knew otherwise. he lied to the public over and over again. imo hes the worst of the litter especially when he comes out and says **** like "i wanted to postpone." this is all indefensible **** btw. if u feel the need to stick up for him, its u who's undoubtedly dense.

[MrP4P]

he didn't enter the ring injured..........thats not his claim. his claim is that he had a minor injury 3 weeks before. which turned into a big injury as the fight went on. he then goes on to say that mayweather twisted his arm through out the fight and tore it that way. (he actually said this) do you know how ret@rded that makes him and his fanbase look? the guy is obviously out of control with the excuses...........

Yeah thats what Pacquiao fans are missing(Id say they honestly know, but I actually think they're as ****** as they sound) Pacquiao wasnt claiming to be injured walking into the fight. They're saying the tear happened in the 4th round during his big flurry

Thats just tough luck

The pace of the fight was already set in the first 3 rounds, and never changed even after the 'injury' it was fought at the same pace the ENTIRE fight, there was no notable change. Pacquiao was averaging about the same number of punches in every round, it was a consistent poor performance round after round, except for the few he won ofcourse