Comments Thread For: Bernard Hopkins Replaces Roy Jones On HBO BAD Telecast

[Golden Boi 360]

Whether you like him or not, Roy Jones probably has one of the greatest lines in boxing history. "he's not getting up jim!"

[Box-Office]

Commentary has a lot to do with your voice/delivery/tone. Alot of these guys know their stuff as you'd expect from Hopkins, but aren't appealing on the ears. Hopkins on commentary is zzzzzzz for me.

[New England]

Nooooooooooooo! What happened to roy jones junior????

roy got knocked out brutally last weekend.

[RespekonMyName]

I remember when Roy commentated the Tito-Mayorga fight a week after the Johnson KO. I was shocked.

[Teetotaler]

Well considering that roy's in Russia and just got ktfo its not a bad substitute

[big_james10]

Whether you like him or not, Roy Jones probably has one of the greatest lines in boxing history. "he's not getting up jim!"

In the history of boxing commentary, "he's not getting up, Jim" ranks second among the greatest lines ever uttered, right behind, "Down goes Frazier! Down goes Frazier!" by the late, great Howard Cosell in the Foreman/Frazier championship fight in 1974.

[BattleAxePurist]

Unlike other sports than can bring in ex-athletes to commentary positions that's not as prevalent in boxing so there's less of a field to chose from which is why it's usually slim pickings

[Eff Pandas]

In the history of boxing commentary, "he's not getting up, Jim" ranks second among the greatest lines ever uttered, right behind, "Down goes Frazier! Down goes Frazier!" by the late, great Howard Cosell in the Foreman/Frazier championship fight in 1974.

I was always more partial to Ray Leonard's "unbeeeelivable" line for the #2 spot.

Hopefully Bhop goes on one of his 23 minute rants & gives Lampley some sort of medical emergency during the show. 2 birds with one stone & all that.

[Zaroku]

Noooooo!! Put the mic back in his hand. Hope this is only temporary, but the other Golden Boy partner shouldn't be commenting on fights ringside. Replace Lamply or kellerman, with *****. ***** & Komrad Jones are both fighting men.

Partisan Boxing Politics!!!

[djt117]

Whether you like him or not, Roy Jones probably has one of the greatest lines in boxing history. "he's not getting up jim!"

As a fan who was rooting for Pac over the course of the Pac-Marquez series of fights, I still have to agree.

Because even though we all saw Pac go down hard, for those first two seconds (watching it live, not on replay after the fact when you see in slow motion how devastating that punch truly was), I think everyone assumed Pac would be getting up. No one could have ever believed Marquez would knock Pac COLD the way he did.

I remember the speakers were on loud in the bar I was at and when Roy said that, for like half a second I'm like, "Pfft no way he's not getting up"

... and then me and everyone else at the bar had a collective "holy ****" moment when we all realized -- wow, he really wasn't getting up.