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    I always found Foreman to be a very bizarre commentator. He was very funny in the Barrera/Hamed fight too.

    I got a new George Foreman grill delivered yesterday actually and had a steak for lunch. Very good it was too. Foreman was better at boxing and endorsing double sided grills than commentating really.

    He wasn't very insightful, but he was lively. It was always interesting waiting to hear what he would say next no matter how odd. Puts Lennox to shame.

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    Its funny Hopkins fans always ripped Lampley and Merchant for being biased against Hopkins in the Taylor fights especially (and they were but nothing like this) but they were almost cheerleading for Hopkins in the Tito fight. Maybe partially in response to George's craziness, partially in response to Hopkins performance and in Lampley's case I think almost solely because he was still in despair about the ODLH-Tito fight

    I've never used a foreman grill. I know somebody that used to live next door to George in the pre-grill days.

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    In the Pacquiao-Ledwaba fight, George was so pro-Ledwaba it was actually kind of funny. As each round progressed, Pacquiao just kept blasting Ledwaba worse and worse and George just kept on complimenting and basically kept talking about how Ledwaba would come back. And to hear him attempt to say "Pacquiao" was actually funny too.

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    He was totally biased through the first 6 rounds.

    Merchant put him in his place around the 7th.

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    foremans an incredibly biased pundit

    remember the 2 griffin-toney fights particularly the 1st one which was right down the middle and yet foreman was claiming toney had it by a landslide.....montell went on to take the win!!
    one dangerous horrible bloke

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    I think we all know what the worst commentary was in any fight...

    Duran vs Moore

    They had this lady.. who apparently knew nothing about boxing, whatsoever. She was just rambling. You could just her long pauses after she said something, like the regular commentators were covering their mics telling her to shut up.

    She said, "I think Duran is going to wear out from punching him so much!" Then she says, "No Duran isn't going to wear out he can just keep throwing forever!" She was squawking all sorts of random crap. I really like that fight, but I have to watch it with the volume down and just imagine the sounds Davey gets hit with to the body.

    I swear this lady worked in a New Jersey nail salon or something.
    "Floyd needs to inject Xylocaine into his balls to gain the courage to fight Pacquiao."

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    You've obviously never heard Jim McDonald commentate. He wasn't biased but he was indescribably bad. He hasn't done it for a few years now thankfully.

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    Quote Originally Posted by JonnyFolds View Post
    I think we all know what the worst commentary was in any fight...

    Duran vs Moore

    They had this lady.. who apparently knew nothing about boxing, whatsoever. She was just rambling. You could just her long pauses after she said something, like the regular commentators were covering their mics telling her to shut up.

    She said, "I think Duran is going to wear out from punching him so much!" Then she says, "No Duran isn't going to wear out he can just keep throwing forever!" She was squawking all sorts of random crap. I really like that fight, but I have to watch it with the volume down and just imagine the sounds Davey gets hit with to the body.

    I swear this lady worked in a New Jersey nail salon or something.
    Yep, I know exactly who you're talking about. I think her name was "Vicky" because the guy doing the play-by-play kept yelling "Vickyyyyyyyyyyy" whenever the action in the ring heated up. Very weird announcing pair.

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