HBO Needs A New Broadcast Team

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I miss George "Nobody's pound-for-pound until they beat (James) Page" Foreman

 

George was the best. "He's bone dry he's bone dry. You gotta work up a sweat in the locker room. He's bone dry! "

 

off topic, Dog

but I love that you have that LaPorte thing as your sig... it's probably the best line I've ever had::

 

Yeah, his interviewing was pretty solid. Fair with everyone, tough questions for everyone.

 

In some ways, yes! Foreman was such a character..and Manny is relatively boring.

Still...Foreman's nonsense used to try my patience too many times: "No one is P4P until they fight James Page" and shit like that.... :wack:

 

word.

I was very impressed. Max didn't hold back at all. He was in Dawson's face, he didn't let the commission guy bluff his way out of it, he called it all out saying it wasn't a TKO but a NC, he even mentioned to Bernard his past "faking" against Calzaghe. Max earned his money on Saturday night.

 

Still Foreman did come out with the occasional gem:

"Boy, you sign those big contracts and the last thing on your mind is that you've gotta fight for the money!" - during Vernon's difficult scrap in the first Mayorga fight.

 

Max is just a wide-eyed ingenue

 

Max actually did do a good job on Saturday night, with the lone gaf of comparing the talent of Linares to Robinson.

Be that as it may, he did do an excellent job in the post fight interview and he didn't let either Dawson or Hopkins just bluff their way through the interview, and he made an honest attempt to get the whole scoop on the situation.

I dig his passion for the sport though he clearly does have his biases and favorites. But I think he's quite useful.

Lampley has been useless since 1999. His politically correct bias has long reached its sell by date and he needs to be let go.

Merchant at one point was an insightful commentator but the past 10 years he has denigrated into a jaded bitter old drunk who's only interested in a fight if he sees blood and guts. He's been finished.

Steward is just annoying with his superficial schtick. He doesn't even add anything insightful.

Yeah HBO does need a new team.

 

There was only ONE question he should have asked Dawson and that was...."Did you foul him".

Once Dawson said "No", that should have been that.

Instead Maxi-Pad kept at it and kept at it, a la Tim Smith post Judah-Tszyu.

He gets points for asking Hopkins about how he behaved in the Calzaghe fight, but he should and could have been making much more of an issue of THAT incident when it occurred.

It seems Max only wants to discuss certain issues when they suit him, much later on down the line, and in a context he finds appropriate or to his own liking.

 

More and more, Max is simply trying to imitate Merchant: "I thought he won it," Max murmurs at the end of the round, following Lederman's verdict on who won the round.

All this hate for Merchant is misplaced. Of all the guys HBO has employed as commentators, Merchant has by far been the best advocate for fans, and the most objective.

Fans might be tempted to think Merchant is a dick because he rubs fighters the wrong way (well, one fighter who's name is PBF who doesn't like to be confronted with questions that he can't answer by talking about how good he is), but the fact fighters aren't always thrilled to speak with Merchant is a good sign - it means he's actually asking the hard questions - the ones we as fans want to know the answers to.

I know it's embarrassing for us when PBF is made to feel uncomfortable and is called on his bull-shit (and he doesn't get a fair shake - poor Mayweather), but these are the kinds of announcers we want - not company line towing boxer ass-kissing ones with no passion for the sport.

 

When interviewing Chad and Bitchkins,.. you can tell Kellerman knew he had to stick by an interviewer's protocol,.. but he couldn't help himself,.. his bias for Hopkins and for any fight he ever covers does bust through loud and clear,.. he's a gimp.

 

Yep. In that sense his mind is as small as his eyes are big.

 

What fucks me right off is this clear, concise, head-twitching manner in which he delivers his little post-fight sermons, uttering his fallacies and then peering into the camera as if to cement in the viewers mind the validity of his latest claim. The Urango vs Alexander post-fight interview was a marvelous piece of poo, as was his 2-year-belated inquisition about Bernards bollock-holding in the Calzaghe fight.

As I said before, it must be a hard life, living through the achievements of other people and the short-fallings of other people. Ricky Hatton did more living during his 10 minutes of Pacquaio-induced coma than that fuck Kellerman has done in a lifetime, eh Max???

Not to mention the wide-eyed, college-boy nature in which Kellerman refers to the "Youtubing" of Hatton by a guy who might be on drugs. I guess we can deal with that issue after you are through casting suspicion on the 7-out-of-10 up at heavyweight. You got the biggest fight in boxing which can't be made over a steroids beef and here is Max, waiting for Evan Fields to retire before he can get stuck into the heavyweights. Thats the last time I mention "heavyweights" and "Kellerman" in the same sentence.

When Kellerman dies, he is probably going to stick a microphone in his brothers face and ask him if he antagonized or provoked Butler in any way, and maybe should the Jury's decision be changed to a No-Contest, and maybe is he to blame, and.....:shit:

Fuck you Max Kellerman, and the Mule you rode in on.

 

Even without skin on display Kellerman still favors one over the other,.. I think he made it crystal clear on who he wants to win during the first half of the Calzaghe - Kessler fight didn't he?...

Then again,.. we suspect we know how Kellerman's mind works,.. so I sorta trust that Joe's longevity was a thorn in his side, and the candidate to bring him down no matter what would have been doing him a favor.

 

I LOVED that shit from George. :giggle:

 

He was fair to both guys. I'll take my opinion on this subject over yours. :hammert:

 

Remember George used to say all the time.. when asked about body shots..he would say "zap the chest, zap the chest, it takes your opponents breath away......GS

 

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Jab to the body is "like a syringe."

 

First time for everything!! You go girl!

 

:bears:

 

Why was Foreman replaced? Foreman was a former fighter and champion, and never carried any of the phenomenal political and racial agenda that Kellerman does. HBO's removal of Trotsky and rehabilitation of Beria has done nothing for my enjoyment of HBO cards. Kellerman needs removing. He's simply too political and too skewed.

 

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Foreman stepped down. I remember his last broadcast, think it was a Morales fight, where he was talking about wanting to spend more time with family etc.etc.

 

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I don't have many, but this is kinda my area of expertise.

 

Oh, Georges 1, 2, 3, 4 and 5. :notallthere:

 

The Dude has confirmed your right to an opinion, but stresses that it remains just, well, your opinion. Carry on so.:truce:

 

The Kessler Memorandum states that Mikkel was always good for a loss. On the other hand, that Taff Dagoe stank of a previous era, when the vowel-endings were commonplace in the pug ranks. The Kessler Memorandum gave clear instructions. Had they been followed, then it may have altered the course of the War. The Kessler Memorandum obliged General Mikkel to "Stand Fast, Not A Step Back".......but Uncle Joe was too wily for that shit, and he broke through and routed the assembled forces under General Jones and General Hospice Hopkins.

This left the rear flank of OberHauptInterviewer Kellerman exposed badly, and while Pauli "Scipio Africanus" Malignaggi legions on, it will be some time before Sonderkommando Kellerman gets his vibe back.

 

Foreman returned to HBO for the broadcast with Cotto-Torres/Wlad-Peter 1.

That's when Torres's trainer told him to make an act out of it when Cotto hit him low. Lampley said "it makes sense" and Foreman goes "it makes sense if you don't have much dignity".