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

[garfios]

That was a horrible fight. Rigo clearly hitting after the bell and then the show by the other guy trying to win by DQ.

The masses don't support Rigo, even that I don't like Lampley that much I agreed with him that the call was late

That wasn't a horrible fight. That was a movie with one bad actor. The guy threw a punch after the belt and didn't land, because the Cuban is faster. Both threw after the bell but before that the guy got hit real hard, I think on the throat, that is when he decided that it was quitting time, Rigondeaux's fault I guess? For hitting so hard for such a little guy. Gomez used to knock 122 pounders out, left and right, but after a few punches. The Cuban hit you once and that is all she wrote. Maybe they don't make the fighters like they used to...

[Lemonhead_Jeff]

Max Kellerman is the man! He is a boxing purist ... Max Kellerman is my favorite comentator but no one, I repeat, No one makes a fight as exciting as lampley...

You being serious? Have some respect for yourself! Max Kellerman has become a biased, self-absorbed twit. He's no longer the enthusiastic kid who started-out on ESPN. He is a self-righteous douche. Lampley has also gotten increasingly worse. Their job is to verbalize the action taking place in the ring, not to push their personal opinions, and not to have an effect on the outcome of the matches. They need to retire Harold, as well. He needs to have his senility examined. Even if they were all the things you said they were, it's unbecoming to publicly gush over them like a schoolgirl in the throes of her first crush.

[JK1700]

Lampley is senile. He lost his marbles years ago, he should retire.

[MeanestNiceGuy]

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.

Cho ass up!

[PunchyPotorff]

Ah yes... "Two Sets Of Rules Lampley". He can be such an irritating lil' pizzant sometimes now can't he? For a punch landing a millisecond after the bell... sure has been enough brouhaha over it. Geez... let's move on.

Lampley was outta line, and Rigo is one of the best. Tell me who's disposable of the two?

[BigOneFromCuba]

I reiterate, if a commentator has not competed in the ring he does not belong to be at the seat of commenting fights. Lampley is extremely unqualified to make fight calls regardless of his wide array of descriptive words. It's a slap in the face to all fighters to have such a moron as a commentator. Ringside notion isn't to sound like your in an American literature 3 course. Nobody gives 3 *****ts's of all the adjectives that this under minding peckerwood can come up with, with his snide way of trying to make Roy Jones or B Hop, or whomever black commentators there sound ******. And yes he does do that. That guy will reword an exact sentiment of Roy or Bernard, as if he was showing them the way. I do not like that guy. He has no place in boxing. Get him outta here.

[aboutfkntime]

..... What boxing needs is more commentators like Jim Lampley.....

what a absolute twat

why are you here..... ?

[peplz]

Or maybe they have a very high IQ, and can transmit large amounts of data quickly.

In other words, they need to go see a psychiatrist...

[brettWall]

Lampley is better than Ted Atlas nowadays. Whatever suits your agenda.

[etech1]

In other words, they need to go see a psychiatrist...

Lol.......