HBO crew=none of them have fought

[Sin City]

this is a pretty ****** thread.. would you like to have all the boxers you watch have commentating experience? They don't need to KNOW how to box to commentate, they need to know ABOUT it though and you can do that as a spectator.. especially when you been in the boxing business for years. They always have Steward for the inside scoop anyways. And I do believe Kellerman came from a boxing background.. He may not have been a pro but he did train.

[Sage84]

Ritchie gives great insightfull comments but that new dude they put him alongside him for the Jones v Calzaghe fight did not have a clue what he was watching

Yeah Richie talks alot of sense. He has moving into training, hes got some good young up and comers under his belt

[Miburo]

Which is why they have the third man for broadcasts, the one with live experience. Since when is broadcasters not having experience as fighters a rare occurrence - not even all trainers have experience as fighters (Angelo Dundee for example).

[jcarr71]

I don't know. Big George was beyond horrible if you go back and watch old fights. He says the dumbest things. Roy doesn't have the voice for commentating and they could never really make that work even though he was usually dead on when he said how a fight was going to go. Lennox is okay, but I'd rather have Manny. Teddy Atlas repeats himself waaaay too much too.

I guess I'd just rather have the fighters fight and the commentators commentate. Neither can do what the other can half as well.

[Nu Jerzey Devil]

I have never paid real attention to them anyway. They are all racist and biased.

[DTF]

I just looked up jim lampley, larry merchant, max kellerman and harold lederman, and none of them have fought..

Quite disapointing really, as you prefer commentators to have fought, so they can give you more precise accurate professional commentating, and know whats it like to be inside the ring.

anybody else feel the same sentiments?

Nope.


One has nothing to do with the other.

[deanrw]

The Best 1-2 team was Tim Ryan and Gil Clancy

Back in the 80's, CBS Sports, they had some amazing cards and great commentating with them two. They bounced off each other and knew what they were talking about.

[-MAKAVELLI-]

The Best 1-2 team was Tim Ryan and Gil Clancy

Back in the 80's, CBS Sports, they had some amazing cards and great commentating with them two. They bounced off each other and knew what they were talking about.

i remember Gil and Tim Ryan...i also liked ABC's Wide World of Sports boxing team...i believe it was Ferdie Pacheco and i forget the color commentator alongside him but they were good as well

[Danny Gunz]

I just looked up jim lampley, larry merchant, max kellerman and harold lederman, and none of them have fought..

Quite disapointing really, as you prefer commentators to have fought, so they can give you more precise accurate professional commentating, and know whats it like to be inside the ring.

anybody else feel the same sentiments?

Max Kellerman was an amateur boxer im pretty sure... i read an article of him and his brother sam growing up in the bronx or queens or soemthing and they trained for about all their teen years

[Dynamite Kid]

Max Kellerman was an amateur boxer im pretty sure... i read an article of him and his brother sam growing up in the bronx or queens or soemthing and they trained for about all their teen years

most people would howl with laughter if they saw Frog man getting into the ring to face them