BoxRec

SenorPipino wrote:Tompkins was great. Haven't heard much of him since his FOX days. He had great chemistry with colorman Rich Marotta, another underrated and overlooked boxing announcer.

He's on Showtime now.

Il Duce wrote:ABC-TV tried out Cathy 'The Cat' Davis {Female Boxer from New York} for a few TV Gigs.

She was beyond 'bad', if that's possible.

She was asked during one bout, which may have been from Chris Schenkel.

"How about that left jab Cat".

Her response, "I'm a southpaw, so I can't comment on that.".........

Did she call any big fights?

Il Duce wrote:Cathy 'The Cat' Davis,

Had to be in the Summer of 1978 - right about the time she was on the cover of Ring Magazine {August 1978}.

She may have done '2' ABC-TV Events.

Another Favorite.

Chris Schenkel.........."Hey Cat, what is your favorite combination."

Cat Davis................"36-24-36"

At least she had some 'Wit'

Il Duce wrote:More from Chris Schenkel and Cathy 'The Cat' Davis.


Chris Schenkel.............. "Cat, how do you handle men."

Cat Davis..................... "Very well, I might add."

Chris Schenkel............... "Really, you handle them well."

Cat Davis...................... "Chris you're not talking about boxing are you."

That was risque.

Whoever the guy was at the last Ricky Burns fight, total terry fuc kwit

The guy that does the chat in Monaco too, bell end

John Rawling is the very worst. He has a awful monotone voice, he repeats his limited number of phrases over and over again, he's too much of a fanboy for certain boxers such as Roy Jones, Floyd Mayweather and Muhammed Ali. Sadly, Rawling seems to have an intense dislike for mainland European boxers.

Max Kellerman is similar, he's a 40 year old fanboy who gushes like a teenage girl over certain boxers such as Pernell Whitaker. But Max has a somewhat better voice and isn't as limited in his commentary.

Teddy Atlas is certainly putting himself in the running if he wants to keep going like he's going. I always defended him for a long time, but I can't defend the guy the way he's been acting lately.

gilgamesh wrote:Teddy Atlas is certainly putting himself in the running if he wants to keep going like he's going. I always defended him for a long time, but I can't defend the guy the way he's been acting lately.

He seems to be getting crazier and crazier.

But if Atlas disappeared from the FNF telecasts, I bet most of you guys would miss him.
He's like Cosell in the old days. His commentary gives you something to bitch about.

gilgamesh wrote:Teddy Atlas is certainly putting himself in the running if he wants to keep going like he's going. I always defended him for a long time, but I can't defend the guy the way he's been acting lately.

I turn the sound off when Teddy comes on. He really is quite loopy. Cosell was just annoying with his non-stop bs and self-aggrandizement. Teddy actually sounds like he's drunk or manic (or both) a lot of the time.

'Colonel' Bob Sheridan

Closely followed by John Rawlins

SenorPipino wrote:But if Atlas disappeared from the FNF telecasts, I bet most of you guys would miss him.
He's like Cosell in the old days. His commentary gives you something to bitch about.

I would miss him a little bit, he's comical in his over the top nature.

SenorPipino wrote:But if Atlas disappeared from the FNF telecasts, I bet most of you guys would miss him.
He's like Cosell in the old days. His commentary gives you something to bitch about.

Not I.

Rover wrote:

SenorPipino wrote:But if Atlas disappeared from the FNF telecasts, I bet most of you guys would miss him.
He's like Cosell in the old days. His commentary gives you something to bitch about.

Not I.

Yeah, but you don't get jokes though. So you don't see the comic value in his over the top tirades.

gilgamesh wrote:

Rover wrote:

SenorPipino wrote:But if Atlas disappeared from the FNF telecasts, I bet most of you guys would miss him.
He's like Cosell in the old days. His commentary gives you something to bitch about.

Not I.

Yeah, but you don't get jokes though. So you don't see the comic value in his over the top tirades.

They've grown tiresome.

Mauro Ranallo is the WORST on Showtime Championship Boxing!!!! IMO.

Can't say. Haven't heard any of them since they invented the mute button.

One time I did leave the sound on. I heard Lampley say that Rocky Marciano's toughest opponent as champion was Roland LaStarza, and Emanuel Steward comment on Joe Louis winning the WBC heavyweight title. So I'd say the worst are Howard Cosell (that pre-mute button jabberhead), Jim Lampley and Emanuel Steward.

raylawpc wrote:One time I did leave the sound on. I heard Lampley say that Rocky Marciano's toughest opponent as champion was Roland LaStarza, and Emanuel Steward comment on Joe Louis winning the WBC heavyweight title. So I'd say the worst are Howard Cosell (that pre-mute button jabberhead), Jim Lampley and Emanuel Steward.

Do you think Steward, no dummy he, was referring to LENNOX Lewis and got his Lewis' (Louis'??) mixed up?
I alway enjoyed Steward. Most of his on air predictions were right on, and since he was a notorious gambler, I always listened to his fight picks with great interest.
But I also loved Cosell. Until the 80s, nothing screamed Big Fight more than hearing his authoritative nasal voice broadcasting from ringside.
And is there a more iconic, memorable call in sports history then "Down goes Frazier!!" (repeat 3 times)?

Colonel Bob Sheridan. I can barely stand listening to Top Rank feeds because of his drivel. I was watching a Michael Zewski fight and instead of talking about the fight, he was talking about how he grew up in south Boston and used to beat people up and rob them.

George Foreman and Lennox Lewis were both crap in my opinion.

Lampley is so damned biased sometimes and seems to not understand boxing as deeply as he should. He frequently counts punches that don`t land. He is a good hype man however, and he is well spoken.

Roy Jones used to be a guy I liked because his experience in the ring would allow him to present an alternative angle to a bout. He seems to have lost some of it, probably because of the punches he has taken. Now he can barely pronounce some of these guy`s names and constantly calls fighters son. He seems to be a bit biased towards black fighters or maybe it`s just American fighters.

Jim Grey isn`t a commentator but he really looks like a twat.

Jpreisser wrote:Colonel Bob Sheridan. I can barely stand listening to Top Rank feeds because of his drivel. I was watching a Michael Zewski fight and instead of talking about the fight, he was talking about how he grew up in south Boston and used to beat people up and rob them.

George Foreman and Lennox Lewis were both crap in my opinion.

Lampley is so damned biased sometimes and seems to not understand boxing as deeply as he should. He frequently counts punches that don`t land. He is a good hype man however, and he is well spoken.

Roy Jones used to be a guy I liked because his experience in the ring would allow him to present an alternative angle to a bout. He seems to have lost some of it, probably because of the punches he has taken. Now he can barely pronounce some of these guy`s names and constantly calls fighters son. He seems to be a bit biased towards black fighters or maybe it`s just American fighters.

Jim Grey isn`t a commentator but he really looks like a twat.

Jim Grey is a piece of sh*t.

gilgamesh wrote:

Jpreisser wrote:Colonel Bob Sheridan. I can barely stand listening to Top Rank feeds because of his drivel. I was watching a Michael Zewski fight and instead of talking about the fight, he was talking about how he grew up in south Boston and used to beat people up and rob them.

George Foreman and Lennox Lewis were both crap in my opinion.

Lampley is so damned biased sometimes and seems to not understand boxing as deeply as he should. He frequently counts punches that don`t land. He is a good hype man however, and he is well spoken.

Roy Jones used to be a guy I liked because his experience in the ring would allow him to present an alternative angle to a bout. He seems to have lost some of it, probably because of the punches he has taken. Now he can barely pronounce some of these guy`s names and constantly calls fighters son. He seems to be a bit biased towards black fighters or maybe it`s just American fighters.

Jim Grey isn`t a commentator but he really looks like a twat.

Jim Grey is a piece of sh*t.

His smile seems forced and he doesn`t even look as if he enjoys doing interviews most of the time.

SenorPipino wrote:

raylawpc wrote:One time I did leave the sound on. I heard Lampley say that Rocky Marciano's toughest opponent as champion was Roland LaStarza, and Emanuel Steward comment on Joe Louis winning the WBC heavyweight title. So I'd say the worst are Howard Cosell (that pre-mute button jabberhead), Jim Lampley and Emanuel Steward.

Do you think Steward, no dummy he, was referring to LENNOX Lewis and got his Lewis' (Louis'??) mixed up?
I alway enjoyed Steward. Most of his on air predictions were right on, and since he was a notorious gambler, I always listened to his fight picks with great interest.
But I also loved Cosell. Until the 80s, nothing screamed Big Fight more than hearing his authoritative nasal voice broadcasting from ringside.
And is there a more iconic, memorable call in sports history then "Down goes Frazier!!" (repeat 3 times)?

IMO, Cosell didn't know squat about boxing. And, no, Steward very clearly said JOE Louis. And the context was boxers of the past. But I could have misjudged Steward. As soon as he commented on JOE Louis winning the WBC title, he went back on mute, and I never heard him again.

Bob Sheridan and Ranallo have to be the two all time worst in my opinion. I never understood how either ever got a job in broadcasting. At some point in every single fight Ranallo can be counted on to start screaming hysterically.

While not an announcer, Jim Grey is another who I simply can't figure out why he still has a job with showtime. Are you really telling me that he's the best guy that they can get for the job of interviewing the fighters?

While I enjoyed watching him fight, George Foreman had to be one of the worst announcers. The guy would come out with some of the most ridiculous crap I ever heard to the point that at times I wondered if he might be suffering from early signs of dementia.

Virtually all of the post 1980's announcers suffer from the same diarrhea of the mouth literally talking non-stop for every second of every round. I've noticed that they've even started talking non-stop through the minute break between rounds now at times. I find it insulting to the intelligence of the viewer, they act as if they were doing a radio broadcast and have very little to add to due to limited boxing knowledge that most of them suffer from.

Lampley and Kellerman are also horrible and are little more than cheerleaders for what ever fight/fighter that hbo is broadcasting. Their collective knowledge of boxing is non-existent. I seriously doubt that either could coherently articulate even the most basic of boxing techniques if their life depended on it. Their main purpose seems to be to try to convince the viewer that every boxer on hbo is an all time great and every fight that they broadcast is some sort of historical milestone in the history of the sport.

While I hated him at the time, in retrospect Cosell wasn't as nearly as bad as I remembered him to be. As he got older he started to think that he, and what he had to say, was as important, if not more so than what was going on in the ring. When he retired he had long over stayed his welcome.

Alex Wallau was good. Jerry Quarry wasn't half bad also. Tim Ryan and Gil Clancy were a great team. Don Dunphy was one of the best. Many of the old 1950's/60's announcers were not great, but at least they shut up and let you sit back and enjoy the fight without filling the air with meaningless/pointless blather.

I know that a lot of people did not like him, but I didn't mind Larry Merchant. At least until he started to get really old and then he kind of started to get on my nerves, but even then he really didn't talk all that much which I appreciated. Unlike Lampley and Kellerman, if a fight sucked or a fighter seemed to be half assing it, Merchant wasn't afraid to point it out.

I was watching an old fight from the 70's on youtube some time back, I can't remember which one. The announcers were Tim Ryan, Gil Clancy and Angelo Dundee. Clancy and Dundee were breaking down what each boxer was doing/needed to do, what was working for them and what wasn't It was a pleasure to hear two hall of fame trainers analyze a fight like that. And then a few days later I watched fights on showtime and hbo, three (sometimes four) guys who all appear to know nothing about the finer points of the art of boxing, talking non stop yet saying and adding nothing to the viewers enjoyment of the fight and all I could think was "This is why I'm so glad that they invented the mute button."

Bob Sheridan and Ranallo have to be the two all time worst in my opinion. I never understood how either ever got a job in broadcasting. At some point in every single fight Ranallo can be counted on to start screaming hysterically.

While not an announcer, Jim Grey is another who I simply can't figure out why he still has a job with showtime. Are you really telling me that he's the best guy that they can get for the job of interviewing the fighters?

While I enjoyed watching him fight, George Foreman had to be one of the worst announcers. The guy would come out with some of the most ridiculous crap I ever heard to the point that at times I wondered if he might be suffering from early signs of dementia.

Virtually all of the post 1980's announcers suffer from the same diarrhea of the mouth literally talking non-stop for every second of every round. I've noticed that they've even started talking non-stop through the minute break between rounds now at times. I find it insulting to the intelligence of the viewer, they act as if they were doing a radio broadcast and have very little to add to due to limited boxing knowledge that most of them suffer from.

Lampley and Kellerman are also horrible and are little more than cheerleaders for what ever fight/fighter that hbo is broadcasting. Their collective knowledge of boxing is non-existent. I seriously doubt that either could coherently articulate even the most basic of boxing techniques if their life depended on it. Their main purpose seems to be to try to convince the viewer that every boxer on hbo is an all time great and every fight that they broadcast is some sort of historical milestone in the history of the sport.

While I hated him at the time, in retrospect Cosell wasn't as nearly as bad as I remembered him to be. As he got older he started to think that he, and what he had to say, was as important, if not more so than what was going on in the ring. When he retired he had long over stayed his welcome.

Alex Wallau was good. Jerry Quarry wasn't half bad also. Tim Ryan and Gil Clancy were a great team. Don Dunphy was one of the best. Many of the old 1950's/60's announcers were not great, but at least they shut up and let you sit back and enjoy the fight without filling the air with meaningless/pointless blather.

I know that a lot of people did not like him, but I didn't mind Larry Merchant. At least until he started to get really old and then he kind of started to get on my nerves, but even then he really didn't talk all that much which I appreciated. Unlike Lampley and Kellerman, if a fight sucked or a fighter seemed to be half assing it, Merchant wasn't afraid to point it out.

I was watching an old fight from the 70's on youtube some time back, I can't remember which one. The announcers were Tim Ryan, Gil Clancy and Angelo Dundee. Clancy and Dundee were breaking down what each boxer was doing/needed to do, what was working for them and what wasn't It was a pleasure to hear two hall of fame trainers analyze a fight like that. And then a few days later I watched fights on showtime and hbo, three (sometimes four) guys who all appear to know nothing about the finer points of the art of boxing, talking non stop yet saying and adding nothing to the viewers enjoyment of the fight and all I could think was "This is why I'm so glad that they invented the mute button."