Well here fro me is the boxing equivalent for a UK fight fan. Its the end of the Benn-McClellan fight but with the US commentary. I felt I had to show it because its such a perfect example of disgustingly biased analysis by Ferdie Pacheco that it has to be seen to be believed.
I mean he was always a poor commentator who was in Don King's back pocket but this footage shows you a great example of how you can actually con people into believing that something is different to what they're seeing with their own eyes.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hk93Ry2s ... ed&search=
For a start Pacheco bangs on like Benn stuck the nut on McClellan. The replay clearly shows a graze at worst. After seeing this Pacheco stutters and hesitates but then rediscovers his convictions and continues to allege foul play before he and his cohort decide to start claiming that it was Benn's dreadlocks (thats right his f*cking dreadlocks:o ) caused McClellan to go down in the 9th.
Then he shows how truly despicable his is by continuously hammering on about why did McClellan quit? Now i know its easy to allege that with hindsight but the fact is that after such a brutal and long fight one guy throwing the towel in is not uncommon. But Pacheco can't understand it. He claims to have never seen the likes of it before which tells you how much attention he must have been paying during the likes of Duran's NO MAS and God knows how many other fights he was meant to be working.
He also even when watching the replay still can't understand what would bring McClellan to his knees. Obviously he had somehow missed the 70 odd right hands alone which Benn landed on McClellan's skull over the course of the previous 27 minutes or the fact he was sticking his gum shield out and gasping for air as early as third.
But his bullshit really starts to kick in when McClellan collapses in his corner. Not for a second does he think it could be a brain injury , after all this is only boxing where fighters hit each other over the head, but instead its instead maybe an eye injury which must have been caused by the dreadlocks ( though at this stage and obviously hoping the replay has faded from viewer's memories Ferdie is once again referring to it as the 'butt'). He then moves onto a neck injury due to a neck brace being applied. Obviously the 'fight doctor' was never taught that neck braces are applied as standard in all causes of possible head trauma which would be a more likely occurrence from blows to it as opposed to hurting your neck somehow. In amongst it all though Ferdie actually has the brass balls to claim a DQ might be order in favour of Gerald. Mmmmmmm. Interesting interpretation of the rules there old boy. So what your saying is in your logic I could be butted in say the first (or in this case 'dread-locked') and then take a knee when ever I feel later in the bout and simply call in a dq as I blame it on the earlier butt.
Obviously Ferdie is either a complete Muppet or he's simply clutching at straws.
I'm so glad this moron no longer works telecasts. He was always poor but his bias towards King fighters was astounding and his reading of the game was bizarre.
Bit of a rant but honestly compare the above footage to the English commentary. They saw a great fight while Ferdie was claiming a miscarriage of justice at the end. GIT!
