Comments Thread For: Guillermo Rigondeaux's Trainer Lashes Out at HBO's Jim Lampley

[etech1]

I've never had a problem with lapley, and I've always been a big fan of RJJ. Paulina needs to take a FKin hike, and Kellerman has NO FKing balls and acts scared of his own shadow.

RJJ's "can't be touched" has got to be one of the best wrap songs I've ever listened to. Props to Roy!

"Here for the game and all the p u s s y that comes with it" lol FKin classic!

[THEFRESHBRAWLER]

A pathetic racist post if I've ever read one. What boxing needs more of you loser is Emanuel Stewart type personalities who see boxing and not color or alliances to promoters like that FK head Pauli.

And look at your pathetic a s s reveling that boxing is ran by Mexicans and blacks, but if there is a organization that's mostly white, p u s s i e s like you will be the first to cry like a b i t c h about it. That's because you are a hater.

Do us all a favor and drive or fly to the nearest live volcano and jump in.

Just responding to his racism with racism. Seems to be the only way to get under a racist skin. Hater? What are you 12?

[knotty150]

I agreed with Mailgnaggi's opinion in that it was poetic justice that Rigo got the decision, in that Flores was quite clearly trying to con his way to a victory by pulling a Dirrell like farce and faking a KO.

I think this is a massive blow for Rigo, the guy desperately needed to prove he's capable of pleasing the fans which, I'm sure he is but has a very hard time getting the fights in the first place and then has to contend with this BS when he does get them. I'm not absolving him from all the blame, he obviously hit after the bell but if Flores wasn't in cheat mode, he'd have been deducted a point or two and been allowed to proceed to KO him legitimately like he most probably would have.

[etech1]

Just responding to his racism with racism. Seems to be the only way to get under a racist skin. Hater? What are you 12?

Is "hater" no longer the "proper" terminology to label a person that hates others for what they don't have? Do tell, so I can rename all these non gym going, no p u s s y getting, low IQ, little troll b i t c h e s around me.

[MexicanStyle#1]

I must admit, I'm not a fan of Rigo's style, but he is the best at defensive-counter-punching... even 1 or 2 levels above mayweather... too bad he's cuban and must carry that burden with him... the fact of the matter is that American fans can care less about a cuban boxer with that style... had he been born American he would be idolized the way he is idolized by very few non-biased american commentators such as max kellerman... Again I do not like his style but based on facts he is the best in my eyes at what he does... No secret why mainstream fighters do not want to get in that squared circle with him.

[aboutfkntime]

The normally mild-mannered Cuban trainer, Pedro Diaz, recently expressed his dismay at the actions of HBO commentator Jim Lampley subsequent to Guillermo Rigondeaux's fight against Moises Flores on June 17. Originally, Rigondeaux was declared the winner by knockout after he floored his Mexican opponent with a left hand at the end of the first round. On review the Nevada Commission changed the result to a no decision.
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the death of HBO-boxing cannot come soon enough

and they can bury Lampley along with HBO

[jas]

Blame your own fighter for waiting until the last 5 seconds of the round to start fighting then fouling by holding the head

[aboutfkntime]

A great fight for the fans lol? The fight was a joke.

And Lampley went out of his way to be fair, but the punch was clearly after the bell.

This is how far we've drifted into biased, corrupt territory in boxing. It's like all these cheating boxers who rely on holding and headbutting and elbowing and low-blowing, from Floyd to Ward to Bernard Hopkins, along with their sycophants Max Kellerman, Roy Jones Jr. with his pro-black pro-American bias, Paulie Malignaggi with his pro-American, pro-defensive boxer, pro-Al Haymon bias, all have an unspoken agreement to cover up cheating on each other's behalf and act like all of that is normal. And now the one time Rigo screwed up and fouled after the bell, Rigo's trainer expects the same courtesy to apply to him.

And Jim Lampley, the only one even close to objective, is constantly signaled out as the ugly duckling. "Oh Jim won't cover up cheating like everyone else does? Well he must be racist! He's biased!" Just like Virgil Hunter hinted after the first Kovalev fight, and then what happened? Lampley tucked his tail in between his legs and went right along with Max and Roy during the rematch, helping to smooth over and cover up Ward's cheating.

That's the level of bizarro world boxing has entered into. It's literally the opposite of reality. 90% of the people in power in boxing in the U.S. are either corrupt or extremely biased, including the commentators, so the few people left who are even objective some of the time are signaled out and they are called bias. No, just because you are all upside down, doesn't mean the few people who are still rightside up are the ones out of line. That's not how it works.

Just like how every single HBO analyst since Emanuel Steward died (R.I.P) has been a defensive black American boxer (RJJ, Ward, BHOP), two of the three being dirty, cheating, probably PED-using ones as well (Ward, BHOP), or an American with an extreme pro-American, pro-defensive, pro-dirty boxing bias, Max Kellerman.

And look who Showtime's latest analyst is? Paulie Malignaggi, who outside of dirty fighting and PED use is the same thing, a pro-American, pro-defensive former boxer. How does it help the entertainment value of the sport to have nothing but analysts who promote the most unentertaining, unappealing style non-stop? And now ESPN with Tim Bradley and "GGG is not in the top 10 P4P" Teddy Atlas is doing the same thing.

When is one of boxing's major networks going to hire a former offensive boxer to be an analyst, for once? This would be like if the NBA refused to ever hire Reggie Miller or Kobe Bryant or Michael Jordan or any of those guys to commentate basketball games, and instead only hired guys like Dennis Rodman. How do you think they would promote the game then? They would just **** on guys like Steph Curry and James Harden and Kyrie Irving all season, and the game would be worse for it, especially if they had as much power as NBA commentators as boxing commentators do, because boxing is a subjective sport with judges, and commentators influence who the audience believes won, unlike basketball which is based on points so the commentators can't have that much of an effect.

What boxing needs is more commentators like Jim Lampley, but also analysts, except way more objective than Jim Lampley. It needs to go further in the direction of Jim Lampley, and when a punch lands after the bell and it's clear on replay, it needs to expose that more often, and more assertively, not less. Just because boxers like Ward have been trained to complain more than boxers from other cultures and play the victim constantly does not mean we should listen. This attitude is ruining the sport. What exactly did Jim Lampley do wrong? His HBO truck apparently gave the wrong information to Bob Bennett, so Lampley apologized to him, and told him what the right information was, and gave him a screen and headset so he could see the correct information for himself, and then asked him now that he knew the correct information, what bearing that would have on the outcome of the fight?

Which is exactly the question everyone watching at home wanted to know! So if Lampley had not asked, y'all would all be criticizing him for not asking! So wtf was he supposed to do? Believe me I am no Jim Lampley fan after he sold out during the Kovalev-Ward rematch, but in this case he did nothing wrong at all. And HBO really needs to replace either Max Kellerman or RJJ, or both, with an offensive boxer from another culture who can actually give that panel some diversity, because hearing Max and Roy push the same exact agenda, with the same exact biases, every telecast is awful.

Lampley is (by far) the biggest ****-for-brains insider

you are (by far)..... the biggest ****-for-brains fan

you never get it right, EVER !!

just wow

[aboutfkntime]

Goodbye and good riddance, HBO. Gave us so many wonderful memories but ****'s been downhill for a few years now. Unsuscribed a year ago and don't miss a thing since all the big fights are on PPV anyway. They've come to symbolize everything wrong with the sport.

exactly !

and I rate casual-fans right alongside them

[MASTERWESTMAN]

That was bull**** to push the issue as hard as he did .