Re: Has there ever been a worse commentary job than
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ICB
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OumaFan
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 :confused:
Said that "Tito was one of those champs you have to knock out to beat" OK ;D
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.
I never thought George Foreman was a good commentator, sometimes he would say intelligent comments but those very few comments were overshadowed. By the other rambling nonsense sorry but George Foreman was never really a good commentator IMO.
Roy Jones Jr,
Sugar Ray Leonard, Kevin Kelley, were all good commentators who could predict how fights would go. Give sound advice and not spout out rambling nonsense. And they were never ever really biased IMO, George Foreman hasn't got a patch on any of the fighters above regarding commentating.
Sorry, Leonard was a great boxer, but he sucked the big one as a commentator. He may have known his boxing, but he couldn't finish a sentence without stumbling over his words. Articulate he wasn't.
Re: Has there ever been a worse commentary job than
Another Foreman commentary masterclass is Oscar vs Vargas.
This time his hate is towards Floyd Sr. (More hate than a Ricky Hatton fanboy the night after Ricky gets dropped in 2 by the Pac Man ;) )
Quotes such as ''Oscar needs to use what brought him to the dance!! He needs to use what his old trainers taught him!!''
A few more rants at Floyd Sr lead to Larry Merchant responding, "You're not a big fan of Floyd Sr are you??'' lol (or something along those lines)
Re: Has there ever been a worse commentary job than
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JonnyFolds
I think we all know what the worst commentary was in any fight...
Duran vs Moore
They had this lady.. who apparently knew nothing about boxing, whatsoever. She was just rambling. You could just her long pauses after she said something, like the regular commentators were covering their mics telling her to shut up.
She said, "I think Duran is going to wear out from punching him so much!" Then she says, "No Duran isn't going to wear out he can just keep throwing forever!" She was squawking all sorts of random crap. I really like that fight, but I have to watch it with the volume down and just imagine the sounds Davey gets hit with to the body.
I swear this lady worked in a New Jersey nail salon or something.
Yep, I know exactly who you're talking about. I think her name was "Vicky" because the guy doing the play-by-play kept yelling "Vickyyyyyyyyyyy" whenever the action in the ring heated up. Very weird announcing pair.
