HBO's poorly commentated on fights

[Dynamite Kid]

Penalosa vs. Ponce De Leon... Nuthuggery at its finest... Most scribes thought the fight was closer and even had Penalosa winning... HBO commentary made it seem so one sided. Funny thing is that they could not show any highlights of Ponce cuz he was getting hit with the bigger shots and he wasn't really getting past Penalosa guard...Even running in the end.

I thought De Leon's win over Escobedo was questionable too. I watched the Skysports version though, i dont know how HBO saw that fight for De Leon.

Did they have it close too ? or not?

[sjomcik]

Well I agree that they are not perfect and sometimes doing mistakes, but when you are watching the same fight comentating by HBO (espacialy Lamply) the fight is much more entertining than other comentators. Lamply is making fights much more dramatic than they usually are....

[PittyPat]

Foreman was getting on my nerves a bit during the Hopkins-Tito fight. I think even Merchant was annoyed by his blatant Tito nuthuggery... until that last round.

[SonOfCuba]

latest one I can think of is "Cotto vs Margarito" even when Margarito was beating up Cotto Lampley kept giving credit to Cotto and taking from Margarito wish was really annoying and ******.

[BetterCallSaul]

i didnt like how kellerman was trying to make katsidis the next gatti in katsidis/casamayor

Is it possible to be 'built up' when compared to Gatti? If I was compared to him, I would be heart broken, and probably brain damaged.

[T-97]

Foreman was getting on my nerves a bit during the Hopkins-Tito fight. I think even Merchant was annoyed by his blatant Tito nuthuggery... until that last round.

Yea, Foreman annoys me every time I watch that fight...

Same with Barrera-Hamed.

[T-97]

Is it possible to be 'built up' when compared to Gatti? If I was compared to him, I would be heart broken, and probably brain damaged.

Gatti was a world champ on multiple occasions, Katsidis should be honoured to be compared to him It's more than he's done yet, although I do like him.

[Dan...]

Yea, Foreman annoys me every time I watch that fight...

Same with Barrera-Hamed.

Agreed. The Barrera-Hamed one was really annoying. It was kind of funny how he just lashed out at the end there though.

How you been anyway T?

[NeXt In Line]

I think George Foreman was the most biased. He always backed the champion but he had know clue what he was talking about. It sounded as though he had money on some fights.

On more than one occasion I've thought to myself "God, George is just riding the other dude bad", most notably he was favoring Ruiz against Jones and Trinidad against Hopkins. It always seemed to me like George was going for the puncher/bigger fighter.

[IMDAZED]

Foreman was getting on my nerves a bit during the Hopkins-Tito fight. I think even Merchant was annoyed by his blatant Tito nuthuggery... until that last round.

He sure was.

He was pretty pissed at Lampley too during the Whitaker-Oscar bout.