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    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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    I always found Foreman to be a very bizarre commentator. He was very funny in the Barrera/Hamed fight too.

    I got a new George Foreman grill delivered yesterday actually and had a steak for lunch. Very good it was too. Foreman was better at boxing and endorsing double sided grills than commentating really.

    He wasn't very insightful, but he was lively. It was always interesting waiting to hear what he would say next no matter how odd. Puts Lennox to shame.

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    Its funny Hopkins fans always ripped Lampley and Merchant for being biased against Hopkins in the Taylor fights especially (and they were but nothing like this) but they were almost cheerleading for Hopkins in the Tito fight. Maybe partially in response to George's craziness, partially in response to Hopkins performance and in Lampley's case I think almost solely because he was still in despair about the ODLH-Tito fight

    I've never used a foreman grill. I know somebody that used to live next door to George in the pre-grill days.

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    In the Pacquiao-Ledwaba fight, George was so pro-Ledwaba it was actually kind of funny. As each round progressed, Pacquiao just kept blasting Ledwaba worse and worse and George just kept on complimenting and basically kept talking about how Ledwaba would come back. And to hear him attempt to say "Pacquiao" was actually funny too.

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    He was totally biased through the first 6 rounds.

    Merchant put him in his place around the 7th.

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    foremans an incredibly biased pundit

    remember the 2 griffin-toney fights particularly the 1st one which was right down the middle and yet foreman was claiming toney had it by a landslide.....montell went on to take the win!!
    one dangerous horrible bloke

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    Quote Originally Posted by OumaFan View Post
    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.
    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.

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    I think Lennox is the worst ever hands down. It actually chills me to hear this man speak. Bumbling and stumbling through the whole fight. Foreman is very biased in some fight's but he does have some entertainment chops when commentating.

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    Quote Originally Posted by ICB View Post
    Quote Originally Posted by OumaFan View Post
    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.
    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.

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    Default 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)

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