The Mayweather Merchant Spat

[ruthless rocco]

fact is larry has never given floyd his due and has been outwardly hostile to him in post fight interviews and in his commentary during fights.

larry seems to pride himself on being a no bullshit kind of commentator, who delights in voicing his opinions rather than remaining an unbiased journalist. he gives people alot of shit when he feels he's justified doing so, regardless of whether he's crossing the line of a professional journalist.

so whats wrong with floyd saying that he's gonna leave the interview and let merchant talk to ortiz? floyd only blows up after merchant makes some stupid face at him, deliberately designed to provoke floyd. floyd takes the bait, and why not... merchant is an over the hill drunk who makes little sense anymore and is only interested in pushing his personal agenda. larry's the one who threatened floyd not the other way around. floyd was just reacting to the years of insults that merchant has thrown his way in post fight interviews.

the whole hbo crew that night were incompetent in their commentary. lampley and merchant should go for sure as they have nothing relevant to say. stewart was okay, just okay.

out with the old hbo. you look like fools with those old drunk wind bags hosting your fights. good on floyd for standing up to merchant.

[BoxingGorilla]

I havn't read through the thread, I'll do that in a bit.

I was upset that Mayweather tried to shout down an 80 year old man. I was afraid Merchant would go home and suffer a heart attack.

What Mayweather did to Ortiz didn't bother me at all. Ortiz played dirty with a man who brought 50 Cent along to carry his belts and wonders why he got struck down in a less than honorable fashion? He got what he deserved.