Enough w/ HBO Favortism!!!!

[Alibata]

I wanted to shut Merchant up last saturday. Completely biased commentary, but I have always been keen to it ever since they called Pac/Morales I and II and noticed they were totally favoring Morales. Never really payed attention to it but completely realize how biased they can be. Last Sat. was a good example of just making the fight look totally lopsided. From the begining of the 5th they were talking like the fight was over and PBF already won.

[Left2body]

Yeah, I wonder how much of an impact they have on the judges. Not the commentators but HBO in general on picking and swaying judges. While I had PBF winning the fight I was surprised that one judge had only given Zab 1 round scoring it 119-109 when it was pretty clear that Zab won at the very minimum of 2 rounds, I had Zab wining 4 rounds.

[knucks]

larry merchant can go to hell with gasoline draws on,I don't know what happen to jim lapley he used to be fair, as for Emanual Steward when they listed the top ten fighters in the world at the end of 2004, in the ring magazine, he said that Erik Morales is'nt consistant enough for him to be in the top ten

[suberstar_zx6R]

those guys are full of **** sometimes and they showed it on saturday. whenever zab would land a clean shot they would say that PBF came back with a hard sot of his own even if when it didnt land. i dont know maybe it looks diffrent in person

[Super_Lightweight]

HBO brings the best fights but I am sick and tired of them favoring their fighters and calling the fight more towards their fighter. A few years ago they did this big with DE la Hoya and with Roy Jones.

That's because at that time Roy and De La Hoya were dominating.

[Dempseyistheman]

Is it me or was Larry more drunk than usual?

[Easy-E]

i honestly think id make a good commentator. id love to do the color, and i can put away my bias when it comes to judging fights. problem is, id probably get fired for speaking my mind, kinda like roy jones did

[whoami]

who can forget the quitsko era where they hype him up too. they called him skill for letting danny williams last 8 or 10 rounds what a joke. vitali quitsko the worst heavyweight champion of all time.

[Alibata]

Gatti has to be HBO's all time favorite fighter. I have never seen any commentator question Gatti's abilities. When he got schooled by PBF they were still praising him. When he fought Daamgard they were talking about him like he was God or something. Saying thing to the effect of "He is the only true great warrior in the sport." **** like that.

[Super_Lightweight]

Gatti has to be HBO's all time favorite fighter. I have never seen any commentator question Gatti's abilities. When he got schooled by PBF they were still praising him. When he fought Daamgard they were talking about him like he was God or something.

False. They always mention Gatti's drawbacks and then go on to say that's what makes him so good (wacthable).