Has there ever been a worse commentary job than

[JonnyFolds]

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.

[Kirkland Laing]

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.

[bradlee180]

Steve Holdsworth is the best commentator I've ever heard IN MY ENTIRE LIFE !!!

This guy is PRICELESS!

Give it a listen, fellas, I guarantee you will not be disappointed.


It's from the Ruslan Chagaev/Sedreck Fields fight:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HxTKgY359N0

Holdsworth was once a boxer himself, so at least he's not one of those know-nothing, know-it-alls who never had a glove on in his life.
He's pretty harsh though...and hilarious.

Imagine this guy calling the fights on HBO with drunken old Larry Merchant.

That'd be GOLD.

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[holmcall]

HOLY SHITE!!!

[CGM]

I don't really care too much what Foreman says, he's just there for entertainment value. I just think he's a funny guy, and a decent person.

[SweetPea]

The best Foreman performance was when he was ringside for the Cotto-Paulie fight, and he pronounced "Malignaggi" about 15 different ways during the fight.

As others have said, there were plenty of times where Foreman would pick a side and be incredibly biased. He did it during Trinidad-Hopkins, he also completely favored Oscar when he fought Quartey, and then during DLH-Vargas he kept bashing Floyd Sr the whole time.

[amat]

The best Foreman performance was when he was ringside for the Cotto-Paulie fight, and he pronounced "Malignaggi" about 15 different ways during the fight.

As others have said, there were plenty of times where Foreman would pick a side and be incredibly biased. He did it during Trinidad-Hopkins, he also completely favored Oscar when he fought Quartey, and then during DLH-Vargas he kept bashing Floyd Sr the whole time.

The Oscar-Quartey fight was the worst. First off, I'm not sure he had ever seen Quartey fight before that, even if he had called fights of his previously. He wrote Quartey's jab off as average "not one of the jabs from the 40's, 50's or 60's like Oscar has" That was awwffuullll. My favorite exchange in the commentary that bout was when Quarteywas at the end of a dominating round, one of the real clear cut rounds in the fight and Foreman was at the end of an Oscar rant.

Merchant: But Oscar isn't doing anything this round George.
Foreman: Not much is a lot for Oscar De La Hoya.

As much shit as Lampley gets forr being pro De La Hoya, Foreeman was exponentially worse. The one fight I can recall where he wasn't overly pro-Oscar was against Camacho of all people.

[SweetPea]

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.