Quote Originally Posted by Drago View Post

most brits know fk all abt boxing especially the hatton fans & now many of the haye fans know fk all abt boxing, but thats exactly the same with american fans, whenever i been in the states they knew fk all they all thought riddick bowe had beaten lennox lewis as a professional? i mean i nearly got into a fight over that with a bunch of yanks

Oh most definately, I know there are a ton of knowledgable, cool-as-hell Brit fans and a lot of stupid, stupid yanks (I'm canadian by the way).

On the subject of commentary, I know there are terrible yank announcers. It just seems like most of the Brit commentators are terribly biased and go out of their way to protect their fighters. David Haye landed huge bombs to the back of John Ruiz's head, clear as day, and the British broadcasters on the vid I watched were disrespecting Ruiz calling him a crybaby and a faker, even after watching a slow motion replay clearly showing Haye smoke him in the back of the head. After the 3rd or 4th replay one finally "conceeded" that there was a small punch to the back of the head, but it was as Ruiz was going down (he wasn't).

I've never heard Jim Lampley, Harold Letterman, Teddy Atlas, ect ect ever protect a guy just because he was an American fighting a foreigner. You don't get that. They'll make retarded points, or they'll be TOO critical of a fighter, but you never get the feeling that they are blatantly trying to pull the wool over your eyes.