Quote Originally Posted by shza
There have been plenty of posts in the past about HBO commentators' obvious biases, but for me, Lampley's performance tonight took the cake. Completely over-the-top. Every time Winky countered and got the better of the exchange, Lampley says something like "Oh! Taylor with some very hard shots. Winky feels the need to come back." Every time Winky got Taylor into the ropes and banged on him with an 11-shot combo, and Taylor finally got out by throwing a shot to Winky's gloves and then spinning out, it was "Earlier in the fight, Wright controlled the ropes. Now, Taylor gets out, backing Wright up with a hard shot." And the absolutely most annoying bit was after watching half a fight's worth of Taylor throwing pretty hard shots each one of which landed about 70% glove and 30% head, Taylor finally gets his gloves up for one of Winky's punches and Lampley--who's been either (a) completely silent about Taylor not landing anything cleanly or (b) behaving as if all of these shots were 100% accurate--says "a pretty hard shot from Wright, but pretty much caught by Taylor's gloves!"

I generally think the HBO cast is pretty good, and that people complaining about their supposed bias in a lot of these fights are engaging in a conspiracy theory kind of thing, but this one was ridiculous and hard to listen to. Close fight, should have gone to Winky 115-113 or 116-112. Outlanded Taylor, controlled the pace and action, landed the higher percentage. It was a great fight though--closest anyone's given Winky in a while.
WOW THIS IS REAL STUPID...if you was to be paying this much attention to the commentators instead of the fight...then you really got the wrong fighter winning...you got stuck on the whole image of winky getting rob...because really the only person to blame why winky lost is winky himself...

ANOTHER fight fan...with the conspiracy of their fave fighter losing because he got cheated...no winky wasn't cheated he wasn't rob...he fell short...he didn't take it to the champ at the end...he must of figure he'll look good either way...if he don't get the decision he'll just say he was rob...

WINKY should blame himself...taylor was in a disadvantage at the later rounds with his eye closing due to the headbutt...and taylor did invite winky to the ropes at the 12 rounds but winky just rather call it a night...TRUE CHAMPIONS TAKE IT TO YOU AND TAKE WHAT THEY WANT...WINKY LEFT IT TO THE HANDS OF THE JUDGE AND he already experience a real robber which was with vargas and still he left it at the hands of the judges...SO BLAME WINKY AND ONLY WINKY FOR WHY HE DIDN'T GET THE TITLE.......