Boxing is probably the least "cut and dry" of all competitive sports. Open to opinion and interpretation. With almost all other sports it's who's runs faster or lifts more, or scores more runs or baskets or touchdowns. Get the drift?
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Re: How come it seems to me only in boxing
Boxing is probably the least "cut and dry" of all competitive sports. Open to opinion and interpretation. With almost all other sports it's who's runs faster or lifts more, or scores more runs or baskets or touchdowns. Get the drift?
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They don't just analyze those sports on a purely stastistical basis though, they know the ins and outs of the sports. In both types of football, you can't just watch where the ball is, you are watching where everybody else is, how the midfielder are controlling the flow of the game, how good their crosses are, etc. In AF(american Football) when defensive strategies, what audibles, what formations, etc. Basketball has it to. If you break down these sports they are just touchdowns, but if you break down boxing it is just one guy hitting another guy.Originally Posted by CGM
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I think Larry Merchant sometimes confronts boxers like nobody else does. I remember when Lennox Lewis lost against Raham and during the interview Lewis said something about being knocked down with just a flash punch that didn't do much but Larry Merchant responded by telling him that it was more than a flash punch if he couldn't get up.
Same thing with Mayweather. He said he had legions of fans and he could have arenas sold out or something. Larry Merchant later mentioned how people left the fight half way and Mayweather got angry at Merchant.
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That's not offering good insight into a fight. In all honesty I have no idea why Merchant is even a commentator for boxing, he was a football player not a boxer, and it shows. For somebody who has been watching boxing so long he knows almost nothing about the sport. You still don't find commentators explaining the intricate footwork, balance, really elaborating on punching technique or defensive technique. If I was a commentator inbetween rounds I would be talking about Mayweather's great defensive technique, how Cotto is able to set up the perfect body shot, How Hopkins uses great footwork to maintain distance, How Roy doesn't just use speed, but angles and combinations to overwhelm an opponent. How Whitaker used reflexes, but also head movement and unothordox stances to make himself very hard to hit. The commentators touch breifly on these things, but many of them, especially Larry Merchant, don't appreciate what they are watching. When Mayweather fought Baldomir he was putting on a complete exhibition that would have gotten Leonard, ALi, Robinson tons of respect, but Mayweather was booed? I think Merchant cares way too much about the politics of the sport, and not enough about hte sport itself.
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He just seems to go out of his way to be negative.I think Larry Merchant sometimes confronts boxers like nobody else does. I remember when Lennox Lewis lost against Raham and during the interview Lewis said something about being knocked down with just a flash punch that didn't do much but Larry Merchant responded by telling him that it was more than a flash punch if he couldn't get up
Same thing with Mayweather. He said he had legions of fans and he could have arenas sold out or something. Larry Merchant later mentioned how people left the fight half way and Mayweather got angry at Merchant.
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I think Larry Merchant sometimes confronts boxers like nobody else does. I remember when Lennox Lewis lost against Raham and during the interview Lewis said something about being knocked down with just a flash punch that didn't do much but Larry Merchant responded by telling him that it was more than a flash punch if he couldn't get up
Same thing with Mayweather. He said he had legions of fans and he could have arenas sold out or something. Larry Merchant later mentioned how people left the fight half way and Mayweather got angry at Merchant.
I remember Merchant about pissed his pants when he interviewed L Lewis after his bout with Klitchko. Merchant was being a prick and Lewis grabbed the mic, holding on so Merchant couldn't pull it away, And staired Merchant down and finished what he had to say. It was classic stuff.
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Larry reminds me of the crazy uncle who says the truth as he sees it, and comes across rude in doing it.
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Best video clip f***king EVER!!! Ole Man Merchant threw that clown away. Merchant takes a lot of heat but I really like the guy. I think he just tells it like it is. For those who thinks he is negative all the time, I don't see that. When a fight isn't living up to what it should or what we think it should be, he lets it be known how he feels.
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The Boxer is it Zaragosa looks about 78 older than Merchant
Best video clip f***king EVER!!! Ole Man Merchant threw that clown away. Merchant takes a lot of heat but I really like the guy. I think he just tells it like it is. For those who thinks he is negative all the time, I don't see that. When a fight isn't living up to what it should or what we think it should be, he lets it be known how he feels.
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Re: How come it seems to me only in boxing
Sure, it seems negative to have Larry Merchant ask certain questions but I would be tempted to ask the same if a boxer as cocky as Lewis, Mayweather, etc. Was talking about being the biggest thing out there when their fight didn't quite show that.
I'll put it this way. Imagine all of you were intervieweing, say, ODLH right after the Forbes fight and he said "Oh yeah, I just came to show my greatness" wouldn't you all be tempted to say something else when you got the mic back? That is what Larry Merchant does.
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