Do hbo commentators have a floyd bias?

[Unbiased]

I'm so sick of hearing this. As paranoid and defensive as Floyd is about being asked perfectly NORMAL questions, I think his fans are getting just as defensive for him.

HBO commentators give Floyd the same credit as any other fighter. The only thing gripe I can see that HBO commentators have against Floyd is that he hasn't fought the big names in his divisions that everybody wants to see him fight. Is that so horribly biased?!

In fact, HBO commentators don't even go as far as to say what I personally think: Floyd's resume needs to catch up to his mouth.

[MANGLER]

They ain't biased. They call it like they see it; he needs to fight the toughest comp in his division, and his claim of bein GOAT is garbage. Hell, they had a disgrace to sell as a PPV, so they were kissin his ass good Saturday.

[Unbiased]

They ain't biased. They call it like they see it; he needs to fight the toughest comp in his division, and his claim of bein GOAT is garbage. Hell, they had a disgrace to sell as a PPV, so they were kissin his ass good Saturday.

The thing is I agree with Floyd when he says that he can beat so and so fighter. The difference is saying it and leaving it up to speculation and going out there and proving it. The problem with Floyd is he likes to get ahead of himself. There's just a thing called humility that Floyd hasn't learned, and the truth is people would give him a lot more props if he just acted on his words. And I'm pretty sure thats what the HBO staff thinks too.

[brently1979]

Well they didn't let Larry Merchant call that fight. I'm sure the Merchant would have had an interesting perception on the fight.


The HBO guys were trying to justify the fight in a way and I guess that's what they have to do to an extent, but the Merch is always pretty honest and doesn't just try and keep his job.

[ThunderWolf]

Things turn out pretty funny in the end of all the chaos, with all the trash going back to its original owner, even on the way to the dugout. The ad lib ending was actually more exciting than the fight itself.

[El_Cholo]

I don't know about HBO but Sky were creaming themselves over Mayweather on Saturday/Sunday.

the only one to point out the fact that he fought genuine Super Featherweight was Jim Watt.

[Unbiased]

considering how he was showered with hate after the fight, isn't it pretty much obvious that Floyd makes himsef the villain before every fight?

hell, even Floyd fans acknowledge that he is. If that's Floyds marketing strategy to pull PPV buys I'd say HBO does a pretty good job of not even mentioning it. It's like he makes himself out to be so hated, yet blames the people for hating him for it.

[catalinul]

Larry likes to rip him wit good reason but in rest nothing wrong there.

[Chunk..]

I don't know about HBO but Sky were creaming themselves over Mayweather on Saturday/Sunday.

the only one to point out the fact that he fought genuine Super Featherweight was Jim Watt.

With our coverage of Sky Sports you have to remember the quality of fights and fighters we get to see over here on the tele. It went from one week watching the likes of Fury - McDermott to watching Floyd Mayweather Jr.

He's very skilled and a joy to watch in the ring, regardless of who he's fighting and the circumstances of the guy he's fighting.

That quality of fighter doesn't come round very often.

[Horus]

Hbo Crew:"you Get The Feeling That They Want To See Mayweather Lose"

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I think The HBO Announcement team, Are Pretty Fair except for Manny Steward. Manny Steward is MAYWEATHER's most Bias commentator and Critic .... Period...


Jim Lamely and Larry Merchant have called the fights for almost all of Floyd Career..

And They have had their moments, where you can say, they are being to overly critical, and they also had they moments were they give Floyd his respect..

The Problem they have is, They are not balance in their Announcement.

The Hatton fight for example..:

All of them said BEFORE THE FIGHT (On fight night),

• "My heart is for Hatton.."
• but my head says "Mayweather"

What Fair Minded Announcers would say that, right before the fight..
and

you could see they felt that way because during 2/3 of the fight they were making every excuse they could into why Mayweather Could Lose the fight...

They even had Hatton winning 5 Rounds, Some rounds where Mayweather Landed twice as Many Punches then Hatton landed, but they gave the round to Hatton..

Not until the 8th Round when Mayweather show that the knock out was coming did they start saying that Hatton is bring the best out of Mayweather...That's the Problem.... THE HBO crew have no Balance...

Thats the Problem Mayweather Has with them...

IT SEEMS LIKE THEY WANT TO SEE HIM LOSE...

AND IF YOU ARE A FAIR MINDED COMMENTATOR THAT PERCEPTION SHOULD NOT EXIST...

BUT WITH THE HBO CREW IT DOES...

YOU GET THE FEELING THAT THEY WANT TO SEE MAYWEATHER LOSE...

The Point Floyd is Trying to Make is that, The HBO crew Calls His fights recently as if they want him to Lose...

And being the Premiere Boxing Network, They should at Least Have the Perception that they dont care who wins the fight...But they dont...

YOU GET THE FEELING THAT THEY WANT TO SEE MAYWEATHER LOSE...


Thats why He feels it is Racism...Because They do not give off the Perception that they are netural...