Sergio Mora on Chris Mannix

[YoungManRumble]

Mora is a good commentator and Mannix is not in my opinion.

I like mora, he’s getting better

Honestly I like their back and forth

Good to have a mix of perspectives. He isn't so bad usually no. I respect his opinion more as a fighter. He shows love to the underdog too when the other guys are slobbering all over the house fighter.

I wish I could find footage of when Chris Mannix and Juan Manuel Marquez had a sparring session which Mannix of course calls a fight lol...

[Eff Pandas]

Mora is definitely on point with saying there is something unlikeable about Mannix.

I kinda view Mannix as a less intelligent, boxing version of Ben Shapiro. His podcast has become more & more unlistenable since the DAZN gig as well. He used to be far more impartial than he is these days.

[YoungManRumble]

Hah well I guess he earns a few points for this. Him using fight and spar interchangeably is pretty telling though lol

WHEN I told a few fighters that WBC super featherweight champion Juan Manuel Marquez had happily accepted my invitation to spar three rounds, they weren't encouraging. Wladimir Klitschko told me I was "going to get killed." Oscar De La Hoya suggested I bring a golf club into the ring with me. Floyd Mayweather told me on a visit to the SI offices that he'd take me out to Sixth Avenue and "f— me up for free."

Fighting Marquez had seemed like a good idea at the time. I had been boxing for about a year, occasionally sparring but mostly just hacking away at the heavy bag at the Church Street Boxing Gym in Manhattan. I knew I'd have to step up my training, so I enlisted Omar Wellington, president of Nexxt Level Sports, a company that trains NBA players, to help build my strength and improve my diet. (Fast food was out, though I drew the line at chugging raw eggs.) I dragged myself out of bed to run through Central Park, and I honed my technique. I started to look O.K. I could jab. I could hook. By fight night—last Saturday, at Church Street—I was ready.

I was wrong.

It's a terrifying feeling, really, standing across the ring from a professional prizefighter. There he was, 5' 7", 135 pounds of solid muscle. And then there was me, 6' 1", 185 pounds of something else. I was overwhelmed by panic, and I didn't even know what had happened when my editor approached Marquez's co-promoter Jaime Quintana just before the fight and asked if Juan knew to take it easy. "I told him to," Quintana said. "But he said, 'I flew all the way out here, so I'm going to kick his ass.'" (Quintana had earlier sent an e-mail offering me my choice of a black eye, broken nose or broken rib.)

When the buzzer sounded, we circled each other in the center of the ring. I threw a jab. (I missed.) He threw one. (He didn't.) For a brief, blissful moment it looked like he was going to have mercy. Then he threw a right hand that nearly perforated my spleen. It was painful, but more than that, it was disorienting. Even though he was pulling his punches, they staggered me. As he continued to introduce his 16-ounce training gloves to my face, I ignored the advice from my corner ("Work the jab!") and focused on defense. Besides, I was a little afraid that if I accidentally hit him, it would only make him mad.

At the end of the first three-minute round my editor approached, a ghostly look on his face, and asked "Do you really want to keep going?"

I didn't. While Marquez was jogging in place in his corner, I collapsed on my stool, my legs splayed out as I tried to take in every second of the one-minute break. Three minutes, when you spend them in an enclosed space with a swarming man trying to decapitate you, can pass quite slowly. Yet I pressed on, even, in Round 2, occasionally snapping off a jab and making a few attempts at combinations. Toward the end of the round I actually caught him with a left hook that moved him. A minor victory.

By the third round my arms felt like a pair of 25-pound weights, but I made it to the final buzzer. I hung my battered body over the ropes, and as I spit my bloody mouthpiece to the floor, a thought formed in my cloudy head.

I'm 0--1. I retire.

[QueensburyRules]

- -Why would I wanna watch a vid of two idiots forcing me to hit mute so I can focus on the fight.

Idiot commentary is half the reason boxing continues to fall in popularity. Manny/Floyd farce set back boxing decades.

The other half is Running/Stinking style by American fighters after the Ali era. Thank the heavens we at least got some great fighters in the welts left.

[Keleneki]

They're all bad on the mic yeah... Mannix is the worst though. From the sound of his whiny little voice, to the way he scores and just everything about in between him rubs me the wrong way.

If DAZN were smart they'd have a button you could tick to only hear the feed from the overhead or ambient venue mics. Watching fights with sound and no commentary is pretty awesome.

For real. That is a great idea. Give fans a choice.

[YoungManRumble]

For real. That is a great idea. Give fans a choice.

I swear they used to have Golovkin Derevyanchenko on YouTube like that but I can't find it anymore.

I suppose it wouldn't be conducive to hyping up the A-Side fighter but a lot of people just mute the sound anyway. So as long as they have the viewers who cares is my take on it.

I used to be part of their beta test team and I would hammer them with this idea every survey and whenever they asked for any input or suggestions, but clearly they didn't have any interest implementing it. Hell they can barely figure out how to get a full fight card streaming without audio issues so this is probably asking way too much of them anyway.

[TX_BOXNG]

Chris Mannix has gotten very annoying specially against Mora and his obsession with Andrade

I had noticed Mora would get pissed and looked like he would almost punch Mannix before lol, I still thought they were cool and just part of there show, but nope he went a little deep into Mannix here, I dont listen to the ring walk i might now, I listen to Mannix for the Canelo and DAZN inside scoop but now he has nothing lol except his obsession with Andrade

Mora is great in his takes, Mannix has fallen very low, Charlo set him straight and now Mora seems fed up with him, I wouldn't be surprised if DAZN fires Mora before Mannix he speaks the truth even sometimes against DAZN he was defending Nelo and usually sides with the fighter

[YoungManRumble]

Mannix wants to suck on Gamboa's chin