Merchant Contract renewed until 2011. NO!

[Lance Uppercut]

I think Merchant and Kellerman are both great. HBO should give one of them to showtime, whose announcers have always been horrific.

[Rantcatrat]

My opinion is that Merchant and Kellerman are good announcers.

Has it been documented that Merchant is drunk during the show? I've always suspected that he has a glass of bourbon on hand during the fights that sits outside the view of the camera.

[Kel]

My opinion is that Merchant and Kellerman are good announcers.

Has it been documented that Merchant is drunk during the show? I've always suspected that he has a glass of bourbon on hand during the fights that sits outside the view of the camera.

I was watching one of my career sets, I think it was a Lennox Lewis fight not too sure, but he was stood there rocking back and forth while Jim was talking with a big grin on his face. He was obviously pissed as a fart. Gotta love Merchant.

[holmcall]

Get rid of the entire crew. Can't stand the whining Max and Lampley, the corpse-like Steward, or the fossile Merchant, Emanuel gets paid around a million and can't even speak proper English. I can tolerate LL, however. Larry talks as if he has verbal constipation---just too slow and difficult for him to get it all out.

[OumaFan]

Larry is a legend, he's such an idiot sometimes but that doesn't take away from his legendary status.

[HattonTheHammer]

Lederman, Merchant, Lampley are HBO Boxing and represent everything it stands for.

Kellerman is about as annoying as they come not in how he calls a fight but in the manner he always opts to side with the american fighter unlike the rest of the team.

I could genuinely of closed my eyes during calzaghe-jones jr and invisiged jones Jr winning round after round even when he was getting battered just because of the whining kellerman did in his favour, similar thing when ricky fought malignaggi he was genuinely attempting to get across that it was a close fight when it was a one sided beatdown.

And the pure cheek of telling calzaghe afterwards that 17 years, endless world titles, having never been beaten meant nothing unless he fought CHAD DAWSON

Kellerman is hated as much over here as is joe cortez and luis resto

[fan johnny]

Lederman, Merchant, Lampley are HBO Boxing and represent everything it stands for.

Kellerman is about as annoying as they come not in how he calls a fight but in the manner he always opts to side with the american fighter unlike the rest of the team.

I could genuinely of closed my eyes during calzaghe-jones jr and invisiged jones Jr winning round after round even when he was getting battered just because of the whining kellerman did in his favour, similar thing when ricky fought malignaggi he was genuinely attempting to get across that it was a close fight when it was a one sided beatdown.

And the pure cheek of telling calzaghe afterwards that 17 years, endless world titles, having never been beaten meant nothing unless he fought CHAD DAWSON

Kellerman is hated as much over here as is joe cortez and luis resto

I totally agree! How many times has Kellerman's predictions and analysis been off?

[Spicoli]

Have to say I dont mind crotchity ol' Merchant nearly as much as rah-rah Company tottie Jim 'phantom punches' Lampley.The man can not get over himself,yells too much,constantly interupts his partners...."BIIIIG RIGHT HAND"... blah,blah invent words,brown nose the HBO fighter, etc

Kellerman is a MUCH more informed and better fan than he is an effective commentator.He looks paralyzed when he is on camera and gets that "" gosh o' golly look way to often.

[SweetPea]

I don't get all the Kellerman hate. I thought he struggled when he first joined HBO, but he improved a ton recently. I think he's done a solid job over the past several months.

Lederman, Merchant, Lampley are HBO Boxing and represent everything it stands for.

Kellerman is about as annoying as they come not in how he calls a fight but in the manner he always opts to side with the american fighter unlike the rest of the team.

I could genuinely of closed my eyes during calzaghe-jones jr and invisiged jones Jr winning round after round even when he was getting battered just because of the whining kellerman did in his favour, similar thing when ricky fought malignaggi he was genuinely attempting to get across that it was a close fight when it was a one sided beatdown.

And the pure cheek of telling calzaghe afterwards that 17 years, endless world titles, having never been beaten meant nothing unless he fought CHAD DAWSON

Kellerman is hated as much over here as is joe cortez and luis resto

This is hilarious... Kellerman didn't even work the Hatton-Malignaggi fight, Merchant was with Lampley for that one.

[The Fightfan]

I'll take Merchant over Kellerman any day

[Kirkland Laing]

I think Merchant and Kellerman are both great. HBO should give one of them to showtime, whose announcers have always been horrific.

I think the Showtime people kick the bottom of the HBO crew.

It's unsurprising Merchant got a new contract, you can't fail to look good up against Max Kellerman.

[ClubberLang]

I used to like Merchant, but he gets on my nerves now. He's fallen into self-parody, always trying to get off a one-liner. And, while he's always had a slow delivery, it's gotten ridiculous. It takes him five minutes to spit out a sentence.

I know Kellerman annoys some, but I like him. He brings a fresh take and knows his stuff.

[Conrad]

So who's the guy who scores the fight? They go to him every few rounds to see how he's scoring the fight...

[JonesJrMayweather]

So who's the guy who scores the fight? They go to him every few rounds to see how he's scoring the fight...

harold lederman...he's the one seems to know the most of all them but gets to say the least....i remember he called an Andre Dirrell fight the "worst fight he's ever seen"

[Conrad]

So who's the guy who scores the fight? They go to him every few rounds to see how he's scoring the fight...

harold lederman...he's the one seems to know the most of all them but gets to say the least....i remember he called an Andre Dirrell fight the "worst fight he's ever seen"

Oh right, Lederman/Kellerman - I was getting them mixed up.

I always liked Lederman. Wondered why everyone didn't like him, you were on about Kellerman.