Jim Lampley's Most Annoying and Biased Night Yet

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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...

yawn. he did call it that way - see the initial post in the thread for evidence. i also did watch the fight - answer me how I could possibly disagree with the commentating if I wasn't watching something different from what they were saying happen on my screen; so maybe it's you who needs to have watched the fight rather than listened to the bs that was strewn by the guys with the microphones.

Winky won by a round or two -- far better accuracy, landed more, and completely controlled the action for most of the fight. It was close--closer than the numbers show, even. But Taylor just doesn't get credit for "landing the harder shots" when every one of those shots was partially/largely blocked. He also had no say in the way the fight progressed. Winky dominated it on the ropes (and Taylor wasn't there because he wanted to be) and was barely edged in the middle of the ring (contrary to the overblown views of the commentators). Close match, I had it 115-113 Winky. He wasn't "robbed," and it wasn't "another Vargas," but it was the wrong outcome, and I thought it was pretty clearly wrong.