Quote Originally Posted by ruthless rocco View Post
the HBO people are all idiots.
they don't even pretend to be objective. it makes watching the fight extremely frustrating because they aren't calling the shots as they happen. they have no credibility. if i could mute them and still get the fight's sound i would.

i watched the fights tonight with commentary by "the colonel" bob sheridan and raul marquez. the colonel is a fucking jackass that seems to have subsisted off the ball sweat of don king... but paired with raul marquez he was bearable and the broadcast was bearable to good. they were able to recognize and acknowledge blows traded and analyzed the fight in a somewhat relevant manner. it was a welcome change.

(bob on his own is terrible.)

HBO seemed so busy being fanboys and/or licking Julio Jr nuts that they failed to notice Rubio fought a pretty damn good fight. I thought Rubio gave as good as he took, and he was tattooing Jr with some nice combos in the exchanges. This went over the heads of Lampley, Steward and Merchant who seemed mainly interested in promoting Chavez Jr. for HBO.