Thread: Who was/is your favourite Boxing commentator?

In response to the Jim Watt is doing my head in thread I wonder who peoples favourite Boxing commentator is /was? If there is enough interest maybe we can run a poll.

Max Kellerman out of everyone on HBO he seems to be the one that isnt ever really bias.

Gus Johnson

Originally Posted by Violent Demise

Gus Johnson

Are you being serious?


He drives me nuts!!!

Originally Posted by Diane

Originally Posted by Violent Demise

Gus Johnson

Are you being serious?


He drives me nuts!!!

It's actually Bernstein. But I don't mind Gus. His boxing knowledge is pretty poor. But his poor knowledge is why he's the most unbiased commentator of them all.

Originally Posted by Violent Demise

Originally Posted by Diane

Originally Posted by Violent Demise

Gus Johnson

Are you being serious?


He drives me nuts!!!

It's actually Bernstein. But I don't mind Gus. His boxing knowledge is pretty poor. But his poor knowledge is why he's the most unbiased commentator of them all.

I'll at least agree with you on Bernstein, he's one of the best.


I don't really have a fav. They all can annoy me at one point or another.

Al Bernstein is the best one. He's a nice guy and knows his boxing, except when he is mislead by the predjudices and nonsense of Tarver.

I really like the Sky Sports team, as long as there isn't a British guy fighting.

i like the russian commentators i find when i'm streaming fights.

they can't annoy me cause i have no idea what they're saying.

Bernstien or Farhood

Japanese or French commentators always make fights exciting, ooo la la

Al Bernstein is always good. I also have a soft spot for Larry Merchant. Bernstein is a voice of reason and Merchant says what he wants.

The best boxing commentator I have ever heard was Jim Healy. He used to do the fights from the Olympic Auditorium when I was a kid. (They would play, live on the radio, I think, then a week later on television). He didn't talk too much and he generally limited himself to pertinent and fight related comments, as opposed to these buffoons that think the fight is only interesting if they are talking too.
The best part is how, when the crowd would go wild over a punch, he would tell you, from ringside, if it had actually landed and if it was effective. and he wasn't biased and one-sided in his call of fights.

Steve Holdsworth is the main man....knows his stuff and dos'nt talk garbage like most commentators seem to do

Also Richie Woodhall is a no nonsense commentator who knows is stuff also

I also like Antonio Tarver and Al Bernstein

Jim Watt is ok but too many 10-10 rounds for my liking...lol

Job Biscuit (also Emmanual Stewart is ok)!!!

eh eh!!!

As a lead commentator I liked Ian Darke, but he doesnt do much on Sky Sports now.

Currently: Max Kellerman, Steve Farhood and Al Bernstein.

Speaking of Larry Merchant, I recently read an article he wrote in 1968 called "Beethoven to Boxing" about the boxing fandom of David Amram, a jazz composer, that changed my view on him. It's in a great book on boxing, I recommend highly, called: "At the Fights: American Writers on Boxing," edited by George Kimball and John Schulian. Merchant, at least was, or is, depending on how you look at it, a great boxing pundit.