Jim Lampley's Most Annoying and Biased Night Yet

[shza]

There have been plenty of posts in the past about HBO commentators' obvious biases, but for me, Lampley's performance tonight took the cake. Completely over-the-top. Every time Winky countered and got the better of the exchange, Lampley says something like "Oh! Taylor with some very hard shots. Winky feels the need to come back." Every time Winky got Taylor into the ropes and banged on him with an 11-shot combo, and Taylor finally got out by throwing a shot to Winky's gloves and then spinning out, it was "Earlier in the fight, Wright controlled the ropes. Now, Taylor gets out, backing Wright up with a hard shot." And the absolutely most annoying bit was after watching half a fight's worth of Taylor throwing pretty hard shots each one of which landed about 70% glove and 30% head, Taylor finally gets his gloves up for one of Winky's punches and Lampley--who's been either (a) completely silent about Taylor not landing anything cleanly or (b) behaving as if all of these shots were 100% accurate--says "a pretty hard shot from Wright, but pretty much caught by Taylor's gloves!"

I generally think the HBO cast is pretty good, and that people complaining about their supposed bias in a lot of these fights are engaging in a conspiracy theory kind of thing, but this one was ridiculous and hard to listen to. Close fight, should have gone to Winky 115-113 or 116-112. Outlanded Taylor, controlled the pace and action, landed the higher percentage. It was a great fight though--closest anyone's given Winky in a while.

[amat]

Completely agree. I'm usually a staunch Lampley defender...but that was a fooken joke. He was so biased...it was surreal.

[jman]

Completely agree. I'm usually a staunch Lampley defender...but that was a fooken joke. He was so biased...it was surreal.

Its funny how when you guys fighters loose you go so low as to blame the announcers of HBO who gave us this PPV caliber fight for free. Since we are throwing blame here on everyone except winky himself, what did Lennox Lewis, Larry Merchant and Harold Ledderman do to cause winky to only get the draw? C'mon, keep the excuses coming sore losers

[Purist]

No, the most annoying night still belongs to Whitaker Delahoya

[Lords Gym]

I had Taylor winning the fight 115-113.

Excellent fight tonight ! Winky fought very well, i was very impressed with him tonight.

[jman]

I had Taylor winning the fight 115-113.

Excellent fight tonight ! Winky fought very well, i was very impressed with him tonight.

Thats it. EVERYONE is impressed by wright, but the wrightbrothers wont give JT his due credit. Just shows how much most on this board hate on a good guy like JT. People these days are sorry and in general suck. JT is an exception and is a good man. No one here cares except for a few.

[YounGun]

Really... please tell me the rounds that Taylor won...

[jman]

Really... please tell me the rounds that Taylor won...

I had the rounds split even over the whole fight. I think it was a draw and told everyone who watched the fight with me the same thing before they announced the decision. Wrights commet of this being another vargas was uncalled for and out of line. He had planned on saying that if he lost or got a draw

[babyboNe]

There have been plenty of posts in the past about HBO commentators' obvious biases, but for me, Lampley's performance tonight took the cake. Completely over-the-top. Every time Winky countered and got the better of the exchange, Lampley says something like "Oh! Taylor with some very hard shots. Winky feels the need to come back." Every time Winky got Taylor into the ropes and banged on him with an 11-shot combo, and Taylor finally got out by throwing a shot to Winky's gloves and then spinning out, it was "Earlier in the fight, Wright controlled the ropes. Now, Taylor gets out, backing Wright up with a hard shot." And the absolutely most annoying bit was after watching half a fight's worth of Taylor throwing pretty hard shots each one of which landed about 70% glove and 30% head, Taylor finally gets his gloves up for one of Winky's punches and Lampley--who's been either (a) completely silent about Taylor not landing anything cleanly or (b) behaving as if all of these shots were 100% accurate--says "a pretty hard shot from Wright, but pretty much caught by Taylor's gloves!"

I generally think the HBO cast is pretty good, and that people complaining about their supposed bias in a lot of these fights are engaging in a conspiracy theory kind of thing, but this one was ridiculous and hard to listen to. Close fight, should have gone to Winky 115-113 or 116-112. Outlanded Taylor, controlled the pace and action, landed the higher percentage. It was a great fight though--closest anyone's given Winky in a while.

WOW THIS IS REAL STUPID...if you was to be paying this much attention to the commentators instead of the fight...then you really got the wrong fighter winning...you got stuck on the whole image of winky getting rob...because really the only person to blame why winky lost is winky himself...

ANOTHER fight fan...with the conspiracy of their fave fighter losing because he got cheated...no winky wasn't cheated he wasn't rob...he fell short...he didn't take it to the champ at the end...he must of figure he'll look good either way...if he don't get the decision he'll just say he was rob...

WINKY should blame himself...taylor was in a disadvantage at the later rounds with his eye closing due to the headbutt...and taylor did invite winky to the ropes at the 12 rounds but winky just rather call it a night...TRUE CHAMPIONS TAKE IT TO YOU AND TAKE WHAT THEY WANT...WINKY LEFT IT TO THE HANDS OF THE JUDGE AND he already experience a real robber which was with vargas and still he left it at the hands of the judges...SO BLAME WINKY AND ONLY WINKY FOR WHY HE DIDN'T GET THE TITLE.......

[shooter]

Taylor woas undoubtedly the bigger puncher but I can't wait to see the connect percentages. He didn't seem get through Wright's guard that much and a LOT of the shots that were moving Wright backwards and getting called as scoring punches were coming off his arms and gloves. Wright landed a lot of clean shots although he didn't have Taylor's power. It's not Taylor's fault but I think the decision rests on the fact that it was his hometown and cable barons have decided he's their boy for the next few years.

No distrespect to Taylor as he showed more variety of punch in this fight and he's no bum having been very competitive with a couple of the best fighters around. I think it was Wright's fight though.

[jman]

Taylor woas undoubtedly the bigger puncher but I can't wait to see the connect percentages. He didn't seem get through Wright's guard that much and a LOT of the shots that were moving Wright backwards and getting called as scoring punches were coming off his arms and gloves. Wright landed a lot of clean shots although he didn't have Taylor's power. It's not Taylor's fault but I think the decision rests on the fact that it was his hometown and cable barons have decided he's their boy for the next few years.

No distrespect to Taylor as he showed more variety of punch in this fight and he's no bum having been very competitive with a couple of the best fighters around. I think it was Wright's fight though.

I wish people would stop saying that. Memphis is NOT Jt's hometown, it is Little Rock and believe me, there is no love loss between those two cities. I heard as many cheers for winky as taylor so lets stop playing the hometown card which is wrong.

[shza]

There have been plenty of posts in the past about HBO commentators' obvious biases, but for me, Lampley's performance tonight took the cake. Completely over-the-top. Every time Winky countered and got the better of the exchange, Lampley says something like "Oh! Taylor with some very hard shots. Winky feels the need to come back." Every time Winky got Taylor into the ropes and banged on him with an 11-shot combo, and Taylor finally got out by throwing a shot to Winky's gloves and then spinning out, it was "Earlier in the fight, Wright controlled the ropes. Now, Taylor gets out, backing Wright up with a hard shot." And the absolutely most annoying bit was after watching half a fight's worth of Taylor throwing pretty hard shots each one of which landed about 70% glove and 30% head, Taylor finally gets his gloves up for one of Winky's punches and Lampley--who's been either (a) completely silent about Taylor not landing anything cleanly or (b) behaving as if all of these shots were 100% accurate--says "a pretty hard shot from Wright, but pretty much caught by Taylor's gloves!"

I generally think the HBO cast is pretty good, and that people complaining about their supposed bias in a lot of these fights are engaging in a conspiracy theory kind of thing, but this one was ridiculous and hard to listen to. Close fight, should have gone to Winky 115-113 or 116-112. Outlanded Taylor, controlled the pace and action, landed the higher percentage. It was a great fight though--closest anyone's given Winky in a while.

WOW THIS IS REAL STUPID...if you was to be paying this much attention to the commentators instead of the fight...then you really got the wrong fighter winning...you got stuck on the whole image of winky getting rob...because really the only person to blame why winky lost is winky himself...

ANOTHER fight fan...with the conspiracy of their fave fighter losing because he got cheated...no winky wasn't cheated he wasn't rob...he fell short...he didn't take it to the champ at the end...he must of figure he'll look good either way...if he don't get the decision he'll just say he was rob...

WINKY should blame himself...taylor was in a disadvantage at the later rounds with his eye closing due to the headbutt...and taylor did invite winky to the ropes at the 12 rounds but winky just rather call it a night...TRUE CHAMPIONS TAKE IT TO YOU AND TAKE WHAT THEY WANT...WINKY LEFT IT TO THE HANDS OF THE JUDGE AND he already experience a real robber which was with vargas and still he left it at the hands of the judges...SO BLAME WINKY AND ONLY WINKY FOR WHY HE DIDN'T GET THE TITLE.......

I'm not sure what you think you're responding to, given that you're bitching about people saying Winky got robbed and then quoting my post that doesn't say that and has nearly nothing to do with it. Check the thread, mate - all I said was that the commentating was extremely biased. I conceded it was a close fight--all I'm saying is it should have been called that way, rather than having Jim Lampley call the fight like it was a landslide for Taylor (an outcome I don't think anyone else saw).

[shza]

Completely agree. I'm usually a staunch Lampley defender...but that was a fooken joke. He was so biased...it was surreal.

Its funny how when you guys fighters loose you go so low as to blame the announcers of HBO who gave us this PPV caliber fight for free. Since we are throwing blame here on everyone except winky himself, what did Lennox Lewis, Larry Merchant and Harold Ledderman do to cause winky to only get the draw? C'mon, keep the excuses coming sore losers

point me to where anyone "blamed the announcers of HBO" for the judges scoring this fight a draw. All we're saying is the fight commentating was biased. I don't pretend that Jim Lampley's commentating played a role in the judges' RBR scoring---it was just fucking annoying to listen to.

[Taeth]

It was a great fighter... number of connects vs. power of connects

[babyboNe]

There have been plenty of posts in the past about HBO commentators' obvious biases, but for me, Lampley's performance tonight took the cake. Completely over-the-top. Every time Winky countered and got the better of the exchange, Lampley says something like "Oh! Taylor with some very hard shots. Winky feels the need to come back." Every time Winky got Taylor into the ropes and banged on him with an 11-shot combo, and Taylor finally got out by throwing a shot to Winky's gloves and then spinning out, it was "Earlier in the fight, Wright controlled the ropes. Now, Taylor gets out, backing Wright up with a hard shot." And the absolutely most annoying bit was after watching half a fight's worth of Taylor throwing pretty hard shots each one of which landed about 70% glove and 30% head, Taylor finally gets his gloves up for one of Winky's punches and Lampley--who's been either (a) completely silent about Taylor not landing anything cleanly or (b) behaving as if all of these shots were 100% accurate--says "a pretty hard shot from Wright, but pretty much caught by Taylor's gloves!"

I generally think the HBO cast is pretty good, and that people complaining about their supposed bias in a lot of these fights are engaging in a conspiracy theory kind of thing, but this one was ridiculous and hard to listen to. Close fight, should have gone to Winky 115-113 or 116-112. Outlanded Taylor, controlled the pace and action, landed the higher percentage. It was a great fight though--closest anyone's given Winky in a while.

WOW THIS IS REAL STUPID...if you was to be paying this much attention to the commentators instead of the fight...then you really got the wrong fighter winning...you got stuck on the whole image of winky getting rob...because really the only person to blame why winky lost is winky himself...

ANOTHER fight fan...with the conspiracy of their fave fighter losing because he got cheated...no winky wasn't cheated he wasn't rob...he fell short...he didn't take it to the champ at the end...he must of figure he'll look good either way...if he don't get the decision he'll just say he was rob...

WINKY should blame himself...taylor was in a disadvantage at the later rounds with his eye closing due to the headbutt...and taylor did invite winky to the ropes at the 12 rounds but winky just rather call it a night...TRUE CHAMPIONS TAKE IT TO YOU AND TAKE WHAT THEY WANT...WINKY LEFT IT TO THE HANDS OF THE JUDGE AND he already experience a real robber which was with vargas and still he left it at the hands of the judges...SO BLAME WINKY AND ONLY WINKY FOR WHY HE DIDN'T GET THE TITLE.......

I'm not sure what you think you're responding to, given that you're bitching about people saying Winky got robbed and then quoting my post that doesn't say that and has nearly nothing to do with it. Check the thread, mate - all I said was that the commentating was extremely biased. I conceded it was a close fight--all I'm saying is it should have been called that way, rather than having Jim Lampley call the fight like it was a landslide for Taylor (an outcome I don't think anyone else saw).

jim lamply never said it was a landslide nor did he called it that way...he pointed out that taylor needed to put his hands up and he needed to get out the ropes...you really just need to watch the fight other then pay attention to the commentators...