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WAS boxing til they lost the backing of haymon & showtime
Lost a lot of power there
Lost a lot of power there
Ever heard of Don Dunphy? Ever listened to some of the older broadcasts? No histrionics, no excess drama, just the facts. Cosell really screwed up sports broadcasting by making it all about him. Some of the latter day better ones have been Lamps, I love Merchant, I like most of them actually but it's certainly gone downhill. Max Kellerman is ok I guess, Al Bernstein is a pro, I never could figure out why Barry Thompkins kept getting fired. Most of them are ok, actually, i don't think I actually dislike any of them. Even Cosell was called the guy you loved to hate. As I said, none of them are objective, Bernstein, as good as he is, I can tell he doesn't like certain fighters like Ali very much and even Don Dunphy could be heard misrepresenting "The Drama In The Bahamas" making it sound like a great event rather than a travesty.
no it wont. new generation, new boxing. simple as that. acting like the boxers on HBO just last year have all retired. a new fresh air for commentary over Canelo or GGG is good for the sport!
After all them years they just fell off didn't they
you are right mateLarry Merchant said it best as HBO was a great champion for boxing and then a worn out fighter becoming a journeyman becoming a name putting their hand up for a payday. The last few years were telling, snubbing pacquiao fights and ultimately losing top rank and two thirds of their marquee talent (loma, crawford etc) to trying to make PPV worthy attractions out of nothing (crawford vs postol) To Ward retiring to going all in on gimmicks and longshots (cletus the jewish hammer LOL...Mungia who is way too premature to invest on), Kovalev getting trounced after having his resurgence heavily invested in...HBO declining to bid for the alvarez rematch was the writing on the wall for me.