George Foreman's in the Bernard Hopkins-Tito Trinidad fight?
Just atrocious
He was wildly biased for Tito which is not unusual for an HBO call (although he was almost bizarrely biased in Tito's favor) but beyond that he was just wrong so often.
Started off by saying Bernard's strategy of moving against Tito was wrong because moving against a guy like Tito saps your energy. Fine I guess, not right in this case but oh well, but then he follows this by saying that Bernard was doing the wrong thing whenever he stood in front of Tito
Said that "Tito was one of those champs you have to knock out to beat" OK
Said in round five there were "all kinds of signs" that Hopkins was wearing down.
After an entertaining round 6 that Bernard won "You're not gonna find this kind of determination in a fighter like Tito Trinidad" Bernard apparently was just kind of determined. This was when Merchant came out with the why can't you give him any credit George line.
It was at least the seventh round before he figured out there were two fighters.
Practically everything he said was wildly inaccurate. Absolute hero worship, funny stuff.
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