Jim Lampley Quotes

He said "you (or we) should be cool on that"

Lampley's got a thing with religion (he also couldn't resist continually bringing up Holyfield's prediction of knocking out Lewis in the third, I believe it was).

Frankly, though, I can't think of many worse or more out of place comments from a broadcaster in any sporting event I've watched than the ones he finished Barrera-Hamed with.

 

Meaning he should hold up on it??

Personally, if Hamed has the right to express his religion and his God, and use HBO as a vector for that kind of thing, then Lamps has the right to bounce that shit back at him.

 

Whatever you say.

Foreman's meaning should be clear.

 

Foreman is a cunt. Never again applaud Foreman for anything he does..ever.

Lampley could have been somewhat wrong to have said it..given how easily muslims are offended...but it's not Lampley to blame..it's Hamed to blame for Bringing "Allah" into it.

 

Muslim, Jewish, Christian, whatever...I don't think comments like that have a place in a broadcast.

If you disagree, that's fine.

 

Hamed had been introducing that angle for some time, and extended it with the whole "green lambskin" thing and the talk of "slitting throats". He then got Buffer, who should not have done what he did, to basically make a religious broadcast on the behalf of Hamed.

Both of these "incidents" are beyond the normal accepted parameters of religious expression in the fight game.

Even the tolling of 10 bells for deceased fighters or fight-game figures is decidedly secular and non-religious in it's appeal.

Hamed, one way or the other, got his ass caned.:egypt:

 

Religion has no place in boxing period. Don't forget though..it's Hamed who brought Islam into that fight...the same way Holyfield brought CHristianity into the first Lewis fight. It's teh boxers who introduced the topic that should take the blame for if the broadcasters ridiculing them after the fact.

And as Irish said..Hamed had teh temerity to have Buffer give him the MIC before the fight started to chant some Arabic Koran stuff. He ASKED for his religion to be ridiculed.

 

Didn't say they didn't open up the subject, but he could've easily responded in a far more professional manner if he was going to address it.

Larry Merchant, for as much criticism and backlash he got for his Mariachi comments ('in this setting, it sucks', or whatever the exact quote was), and he could have chosen his words better, made a far better attempt at explaining his point before making it.

 

So if Lampley had said something like "Apparently God is no match for Lennox" after Holyfield failed to finish Lewis in the third, it would have been ok?

 

I hear what you're saying. Lampley could definitely have been more professional...but in the heat of teh moment we make mistakes. All I'm saying is that..his "mistake" is teh consequence of the arrogant hamed bringing religion into teh forefront of that fight. And so "mistake" though it may have been...I was glad that it happened in order to prevent future fighters from preaching religion in the boxing arena.

 

Correct. Because in saying that he would have been mocking Holyfield...and not God.

 

Do you think those were comments he made at the spur of the moment, or ones he was sitting on?

I got the feeling he'd wanted to say something, but when he exactly he decided that was how he was going to phrase it I have no idea.

 

regarding lewis-holyfield 1, didnt lampley say some shit when round 3 ended like "THE PROPHECY IS OVER, it has FAILED!" :: what a douche

 

It was awesome.

 

This is funny to read. I don't know if I ever told you this story Neil but the one time I met Lampley he was quite the prick to me and it was right before Morales-Barrera 1. I basically told him I thought that Barrera was going to win and he laughed me off like some know-nothing scrub and then started a conversation with the bell-hop in the elevator then walked away in the middle of him talking.

I wonder if his deeper respect for Barrera came after his performance as an underdog in that first Morales fight?

 

Holyfield deserved it.

"A Prophet told me that I would do this and that and the other...."

 

It was a play on an old Rolaids commercial ("How do you spell relief? R-O-L-A-I-D-S")

Everyone always messes up the Lampley quote. He didn't say "Allah knows how to spell Barrera"; he said something else. I want to say "... spell greatness", but not entirely sure. But it definitely wasn't Barrera, because as you said, it makes no sense to say it and then spell it - unless the implication was that Allah isn't usually a good speller.

 

Lewis had already called Holyfield out on the religion talk, calling him a hypocrite because he "breaks a commandment every other day".

 

NO!!!

I taped it LIVE and still have the original broadcast (it's since been editted out by HBO). He said Allah knows how to spell BARRERA..clear as day. UN-ambiguous.

 

True, and you can also listen to this from the opening post of this very thread, at 2.14

 

Has it really?

 

Thanks for this clarification. I guess we can agree that Lampley didn't make much sense then

 

that clip you have is the funniest shit. :atu:

 

He actually gets the banana right under the wheel of the bike. :laugh11:

 

yes. You wont hear it on an HBO re-broadcast.

 

correct. Jake....check this. Clear as day.

 

I can't view YouTube videos at work, but if that's exactly what he said, then I stand corrected... although I'm now less impressed with the quote than I was a few minutes ago.

 

It probably now says something along the lines of "we'd like to thank our muslim brothers and sisters from all over the world for joinining us in watching this broadcast. Asalamalakum"

 

Either that, or a 'True Blood' pitch.

 

I disagree.

It wasn't teh cleverest Lampley quote for sure...but in the context of the entire quote..saying "Barrera" and then spelling it DOES make sense.

He had said that (transliterating) Hamed said that the only way he would lose is if Allah had already written about the fact that he lost...pre-determined it if you will. So Lampley is saying in effect that the words concerning who won this fight include the name Barrera...which obviously Allah must have written.