The Success of this Venture will Depend on just How Much ACCESS Bernstein is Granted to ALL Fights... If HBO & Other Networks Act PISSY Cause Bernstein Works for Showtime, there Could B Problems... But REED HOPES this Does Well...Bernstein's a GREAT Ambassador for the Sport of Boxing... REED:hammert:
Yeah I really hope this does well. Bernstein is one of the bright spots in boxing. Too bad he doesnt work for HBO, were you see the majority of the big fights. He is one of the most unbiased analysts I've ever seen.
He's not what he was during his ESPN days (and what I wouldn't give for fight weekend coverage with him and Charlie Steiner)....but you should never compare one of the best broadcasters in the sport to Max Kellerman. Bernstein at his best could recite past fights during live fights and tie them in seemlessly with the action. Kellerman sounds like somebody who tried to memorize a bunch of names and dates.
Everytime I see a Bernstein broadcast I'm honesty baffled by the fact that he is held in high regard. He talks absolute shit, half the things he says are wrong, he has absurd views. I think he was irately complaining the Vazquez - Marquez stoppage being premature :: What a moron. He is also annoying to listen to, he has an annoying voice and way of speaking. I just don't see why he is highly rated, he seems like a buffoon, I seriously don't see him as being any better than Kellerman. I think he detracts from a broadcast rather than adds to it.
That's because some people still remember him from his ESPN days, when he could do a broadcast by himself - or carrying someone like Dave Bontempo - and be better than than any other announce crew around. He hasn't been as good since he joined Showtime. I think both he and Albert show favoritism to Shawtime fighters at times, whichis regrettable and does get in the way of the call of the fight...and somtimes his scores are off, IMO. I think Marotta and Tompkins unfortunately are the same way...favoring Goossen fighters. Still, though, I think he's miles beyond Lampley or Kellerman...he could do both their jobs during the same broadcast.
Here's the link for those that want to check it out: http://www.ibnsports.com/bernstein.aspx He has some post-fight stuff from Margarito-Cotto and Pacquiao-Diaz. And the first blog entry:
You are completely clueless. Why don't you stick to what kind of underoos your Queen is wearing. You obviously have very little exposure to Bernstein. Your ignorance could fill the world's oceans.Cunt.
bernstein is done. he was a decent broadcaster well over a decade ago but lately he is teetering on the edge of senility. some of his scores for fights at despicable.
Berstein is a stupid cunt, just like you. I've seen enough of Bernstein to know he is a pathetic excuse for a broadcaster. His predictions are shit, his scores are shit, his post fight thoughts are shit. He is shit. You are shit.
You know nothing.Btw, nice prediction that Cotto was going to castrate Margarito. Btw, nice follow through leaving the board for 3 weeks after, Mr. Mexican Wedding Reed.
Leave the board for 3 weeks after? I left the board before the fight you fucking plank :: I moved house exactly a week before, and had no phone line or anything. I only saw the fight recently, twat. Maybe it would be in your nature to hide after a wrong prediction, but I don't really give a shit, it's not like Cotto is even in the Morales, Pacman realm of my favourite fighters. I just happen to dislike margarito. Nice try by the way, to divert the argument away from bernstein. I know a hell of a lot more than you IK. If you rate bernstein as a good broadcaster you're clearly mentally disabled. Bernstein is a retard, only marginally brighter than you. By the way, what the fuck are you doing as a mod? I thought you were a badboy troll? Now you're a pussy little rule obiding "moderator"? :: Flowing chestnut hair indeed, faggot.
I don't understand why you are attacking me. I thought we were friends. I thought cunt meant good friend in British English. You are one of the greatest cunts I have ever known.
Cunt means something different in England to America. America stole it and bastardised it. In England cunt means just an ABSOLUTE prick, just a horrible, malicious piece of shit. In America you seem to simply interpret it as Vagina, and in turn, pussy. In England it doesn't mean a scared pussy etc, it just means a vile human.
Personally, I think Bernstein is as good or better than any boxing analyst alive. If you disagree, fine.
This is undoubtedly the case. He favored Chico a lot more so than others, but no doubt that you can easily identify the Shaw promoted fighter during a Showtime broadcast these days. Damn, is there a single remaining broadcast team who still approaches the mic with a shred of objectivity?
It's easy to be unbiased when you're mainly calling showcases and set ups for Top Rank and Golden Boy fighters.
and i was going to say even at that, they're not above putting it on autopilot for the home team even when the action suggests otherwise.