Weirdest Things Ever Said During A Fight By Commentators.....

I blame that fight for people misunderstanding Monzon's style. He was never normally even close to that aggressive.

 

There was even a slow mo replay of the kd that clearly showed a huge left hook/uppercut gad landed yet Cosell refused to acknowledge it

 

In a similar vein, when Benvenuti flattened Luis Rodriguez with an ATG left hook out of the blue, Cossell was clearly too busy rambling on about timekeeping rules to have seen it, so he responded with:

"Ohhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh, Nino caught him with a.................." (trails off)

"Luis walked right into a.... him."

 

Pacheco quote of Mclellan quiting like a dog was pretty shocking, even more so in hindsight

 

It was also irony, as Gerald liked to fight dogs.

 

Cossell was terrible, I dont know why he was so liked

 

Well he liked dogs to fight other dogs.

He bought a Labrador from a petshop once, tied its mouth shut and let a dog kill it.

Fucker.

 

Establishment. He just fit the image of the austere, deliberate older man-type that was preferred at the time.

Apparently he knew fuck all about boxing, too.

 

I could've told you that about 10 minutes into Holmes-Norton or Hagler-Vito I.

 

Cosell was an excellent sports journalist and renewed the trade to a good direction, but as a blow-by-blow boxing guy he was poor

 

The British commentators on their broadcast made the same claim.

 

Don't know about that. In many ways he was the anti-establishment guy of his era, who asked tough questions, included politics in sports and added storylines and other dramatic device to the broadcasts.

Many people from the 'establishment' always wanted him to be sacked. It is pretty telling that in some year he was voted as both the most loved and the most hated TV personality.

 

I guess it depends on what you call an "Establishment" position.

When he called out the burning of the Bronx, that for me was Anti-Establishment.


But if you listen to it.........you could take it either way.......... he'd even say "I don't know if the fire is going out..........or has been put out" or words to that effect. So he was sort of working both sides, as a few minutes later he says........."the fire dept deserves credit......assuming I am correct"

Like I say, a cynical man who knew how to work it.



When he announced the death of John Lennon- and the inhumanity of it all- I felt that was very much an Establishment position. Lennon was a "good guy", and NYC was deemed full of violent nuts- which Clogg would say it was, at the time.

He was definitely a cynical man who would ask for opinions and then present them as his own. Perhaps nobody saw him as a risk, he didn't "Know too much".

In later years I think the policy- for example at HBO- became to put a Company man {Lampley} with a contrarian {Merchant} and a sort of an "idiot" between them {Foreman} to maintain "Balance".

 

My favourite commentary bands are Ryan/Clancy, and Lampley/Merchant with Emmanuel Steward.

 

This probably takes the cake

 

My understanding is he did that on a regular basis. One if his quotes was "My dogs need to taste blood every day."

One of his assistant trainers said Gerald was one of the most evil, hateful people he had ever been around. Before working the pads he told another handler that he was going to hit another assistant holding the pads on purpose to see if he could break his jaw. He did end up breaking his jaw. He also told his team he was hoping to kill Nigel Benn in the ring when they fought.

Fuck Gerald McCrackhead. I am glad he is where he is now.

 

I know you like animals Wiser, that's why I tolerate you around here

I'd kill somebody if they harmed my dog, he's not even my dog, he's just a harmless housepet, friendliest dog of all times, unless you are a cat or a fox.

Kevin Mitchell wrote the book about that fight and it was alleged within that McCellan had done just that.

I didn't know about the jaw or maybe I forgot it.

Fuck McClellan and his skinny ass legs.

Even the strippers he gets are rubbish.

 

There's an interview of Jim Lampley from the Tito vs Mayorga weekend. It was done by some minor local channel, obviously an amateur production. For ten minutes, Lampley is his own, friendly self, giving long and detailed responses to every question.

In the end, the interviewer says "last question: do you miss working with George Foreman". Without thinking for half a second, Lampley responds "no" and leaves it at that.

I wondered what was that all about. Apparently George was more difficult a working mate than you could think

 

Him and Lampley engaged in the first bit of cancel-culture I ever encountered- it was so primordial that I didn't even notice it- when Foreman suggested Lampley was what they would call today an "Islamophobe".

HBO actually edited it out of their commentary and either left it blank or replaced it. It was only years later that people who had VHS's the fight and uploaded it made it available to people to see.

Plus George was 6-4 270lbs so he probably stood over people and glowered.

A lot of people remember George as this hamburger eating clown but Lampley was old enough to remember the real Foreman and it probably scurred his bitch ass some.

 

Was that during the Barrera-Hamed fight when Lampley said something along the lines of, "Score one for Jesus over Muhammad!" ?

Speaking of commentary that was removed from later broadcasts, I remember during the live broadcast of DeLaHoya-Mayorga, Jim and Manny joked about Mayorga having smoked a joint in the car ride to the arena. It had been removed when the fight was replayed a week later.

 

I can't stand censorship like that. You know today, you get two guys trying to kill each other, and they go back to their corners, and the trainer says "Keep your fucking hands up", and the commentators are like "OH sorry, bit of bad language there"......

Guys are murdering each other. Blood everywhere. But watch your language

Yeah that was the fight I can't remember the exact words but it was basically Lampley telling Hamed to take his religious baloney and shove it up his ass.

Foreman, a zealot, didn't like it.

I think that might be the beef they had, this was 2001, just before 9-11.

 

I believe Foreman's response was "Be careful with that!"

Around '99 FX broadcasted toughman tournaments from eight cities then had the winners all advance to a national tournament. One of the fighters that advanced was an Iraqi guy. Jesus H. Christ they played that up to the audience. The owner of the tournament was also the ring announcer. He announced him as "Second cousin of Saddam Hussein."

Lawrence Taylor (who is as dumb as George Foreman and as PC as Sam Kinison) was announcing. The Iraqi guy's fight was about to start. He said "I"m just happy he didn't blow up the arena!"

 

And the way he said it........"Kehhfuhl".

George appreciated honest sweaty blasfemmah, not that drah blasfemmah that Lampley was giving off.

Reminds me of that "Iron Sheikh" routine that the WWF had going with Hulk Hogan. And the Sheikh was like "Pffft. Iran Number Vun. USA pffft".

And then Hulk comes in "I am a real American"...... :h

Then year later that guy did the movie "Bigger Faster Stronger" and said when he was a kid, he'd read that the Iron Sheikh and some other guy, who was supposed to be an "enemy" got arrested together, and he couldn't believe they;d been hanging out together, cos they were "enemies".

People lap that shit up.

 

You know I saw some of that Jake Paul commentary and when the fighters MET IN THE CENTER OF THE RING...........the commentator actually screamed "I AM GONNA CUM".

He actually did say it.

 

Hangon, Shark Lavay, that LT? That fucking guy? Who told him he could call fights

Dude is massive and has a voice like a rubber toy.

 

I saw him in Orlando playing video games with his kids.

Read about his arrests. Creepy as hell.

 

"Referred to as Lonnie by his family,[5] Taylor was a mischievous youth. His mother said that "[h]e was a challenging child. Where the other two boys would ask for permission to do stuff, Lonnie ... would just do it, and when you found out about it, he would give you a big story."

Throw in a career of head injuries, fame and an imposing physical presence, and yeah, I can see him have sex with 16 year old girls.

 

I thought he used to phone the pimp and have them send up a 16 yo girl to his room & he would jerk off in front of them.

LT CK