Teddy Atlas not making the fairest calls.

[CFH]

I love Teddy Atlas, and like Preme says his book is outstanding.

[Montezuma]

I like Atlas and I find his metaphors entertaining. I can understand why people do not like him but personally I enjoy his insight into the game.

[Violent Demise]

Once again teddy sees a fight completely different to every other knowlegable fight fan watching.

119-108 for cloud is nothing more than a joke, every single week this guy gets away with terrible scoring whether it be at lightweight or light heavyweight, he seems to get it in his head that out and out aggression
wins a fight every time.

Im sitting here telling everyone who would listen it was 116-112 cloud and what the hell happens.......116-112 all round

I F*CKING HATE TEDDY ATLAS

Maybe if you watched the fight on a actual TV instead of a crappy ass stream () you'll see Woods only won 1 round.

116-112? Are you fukking kidding me? Is Woods like a potential daddy for you or something that you got to make it seem like he didn't lose as badly as he really did?

[El Kabong]

I think Teddy is a amusing guy, the dude talks and talks and talks and it's all analogies that have nothing to do with boxing at all. Here are my own Atlasisms:

"Clinton Woods is an older model car and Tavoris Cloud is the newer model and what Cloud is going to want to do is be more fuel efficient and just maybe if he can cash in with his punches he can turn Woods into a clunker"


"Cloud needs to make deposits to the body and it will payoff later on in the fight, and if he does it right then Woods is going to need a bailout to go the distance"

Teddy is funny as hell

[Hunter]

I agree, teddy must be a cloud nut hugger. How did he score the round 10-8 for Cloud when Clinton never went down and wasnt that seriously hurt. Yeah cloud buckled his knees but it wasnt like Woods was out on his feet.......

Teddy is a tool

[El Kabong]

Boxing will ALWAYS have room for the highly opinionated, Teddy is no different than Bert Sugar or even that giant asshole Steve Bunce. We needs these guys around because we either want someone to agree with us or someone to laugh at when they make picks like Ray Austin over Wladimir Klitschko

Teddy can be annoying but for the most part he's an ok guy.

[Bomp]

Boxing will ALWAYS have room for the highly opinionated, Teddy is no different than Bert Sugar or even that giant asshole Steve Bunce. We needs these guys around because we either want someone to agree with us or someone to laugh at when they make picks like Ray Austin over Wladimir Klitschko

Teddy can be annoying but for the most part he's an ok guy.

Have to agree, the guy's funny, I don't necessarily want a commentator who thinks exactly like I do. Much prefer him to the likes of Kellerman or UK's Ian Darke who have zero boxing experience and get by with repeating others comments and stating the fucking obvious all the time.

[JonnyFolds]

I think all announcers have their problems and shortcomings... except for the almighty... Jim Lampley. His pretty much spot on.

Atlas bugs me because he repeats himself so much. I think he is a great trainer, but I could imagine how frustrating it would be to work with him.

He does give fighters rounds based on effective aggression. I don't think his scoring was that far off. Cloud always come through with the big shots except for round 2 in that fight. A lazy jabs doesn't score even if it lands on my punch track. And Woods was flicking a lot of fluff.

[The Fightfan]

I really have no beef with Atlas. I've read his book and it is one of the better books I've read in the past few years. As for his scoring I gave Woods only two rounds and Cloud the rest. I really didn't see anything Woods did to win many rounds besides get hit. Atlas knows what he is talking about he may not be able to predict fight's but he sure knows what to tell his fighter's when he is working the corner.

[Beanflicker]

I find Atlas' antics fucking hilarious. The guy is a mutton head for sure.

My favorite is how he accentuates random words in his sentences.

Like if the line was "And now hes coming back", an announcer will maybe accentuate back, saying it something like "and now he's coming BACK", to add to the excitement or whatever.

But what Teddy Atlas will do is say it like "and now HE'S coming back" or something like that.

Anyone else notice that? He does it all the time, and I LOL nearly every time.

[Jimanuel Boogustus]

I love ol Teddy. Seriously, i've got nothing but respect for the man. He is a decent guy that has no room for all the bullshit in boxing and doesn't hesitate to say so.

Also the whole Theodore Atlas foundation thing is fantastic too.

Great guy. Entertaining. guy. Good for the sport.

[jokaleras]

al bernstein is the best.

i also like boxers doing the commentating. Roy Jones Jr., Bernard Hopkins, BJ Flores(i think he may have a better career as a boxing analyst) etc. are all very very good. Lewis needs work.

[shafty85]

al bernstein is the best.

i also like boxers doing the commentating. Roy Jones Jr., Bernard Hopkins, BJ Flores(i think he may have a better career as a boxing analyst) etc. are all very very good. Lewis needs work.

I agree that Lewis needs work, but I find his input insightful. It is great though to hear them talk about fights though. Some of the knowledge they give out is amazing!

[JazMerkin]

I think Teddy is pretty good at analyzing fighters & has great boxing knowledge. What he can't do is call fights, but in his defence I don't think he picks favourites until the fight starts. Then he has a tendency to just watch one fighter.

I don't think he was biased against Woods, just that he was watching Cloud more, not because he's American, just because Cloud probably impressed him more in the opening round.

He also doesn't shy away from calling something bullshit, I'd say he's still one of the best analysts around, although I rate Farhood & Kellerman higher. Jones, Hopkins & Nate Campbell are also pretty good analysts.

[BoomBoom]

Teddy has superior ring knowlege, he really knows boxing and what a fighter needs to do to win. He breaks everything down well and lays out the right gameplans. But, he is a terrible judge. After the whole Urango-Ngougjo 10-8 round where Ngoudjo was down twice, I stopped paying much attention to his scorecard. Sometimes he lets his emotions and ego get the best of him, but he is one of my favorite non-boxer personalities in the sport. Him and Manny Stewart.