HBO's Lampley: Taints Pacquiao's Career, Bad For Boxing

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HBO Boxing sportscaster Jim Lampley joined The Rich Eisen Show today to reflect on Floyd Mayweather vs. Manny Pacquiao three days after. Lampley felt remorse for those then spent money attending the fight and those who pay-per-viewed it. He also explains that while it can be seen as noble for Pacquiao to fight with an injured shoulder, he in fact did a disservice boxing and the audience. Lampley is not in favor of rematch.


After suffered a twelve round decision loss, Pacquiao and his promoter, Bob Arum of Top Rank, revealed the boxer had entered the fight with a right shoulder injury.


"Well, I think a lot less of it now [with respect to the fight]...look, it was a cynical enterprise to begin with in certain ways and now seems even moreso…I feel terrible for who spent 4 figures on a ticket, I feel bad for people who spent 89--90--100 dollars on pay-per-view who were not given proper information in advance on what it was they were seeing," Lampley said.


"I think there may be a consituency of people who think it’s in some way noble and brave for Pacquiao to go ahead and enter the ring with an injury and try to perform, but I think that the only way that that would wash is if the public had known in advance.


"And to have gone ahead with the enterprise when one of the fighters turns out to be damaged goods. And for all of the advertising and promotions to have continued to base itself on the notion that this was the fight of the century and the best combat that boxing could offer to fans and unitiated fans who only know a little bit about boxing and see it from the surface level buy in at the level in which they bought in are bound to feel somewhat cheated today."


"I just really think it’s highly unfortunate for our sport, I think it’s bad for Pacquiao’s image and taints his great and noble career, and I could go on and on about the ways in which this is unfortunate for boxing and for the audience…I can’t imagine, even under these circumstances, that a rematch would illicit anything other than an embararssing response compared to what they got the other night."





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If his shoulder was fine then what would they blame this ass whipping on?

not the point. this has nothing to do with whether or not he could beat mayweather. this motherfukker is gonna get paid $120M+ when he probably had no business in the ring. and ANY chance he may have had to fight at his absolute best (like getting an anti-inflammatory shot before the fight) was thrown out the window because the only ppl who knew he wasn't healthy were manny and his dipshyt handlers.

how u gonna ask people to spend nearly double the normal ppv rate, and one of the fighters has a fukked up shoulder?

it's gonna be interesting to see who decides to sue manny and top rank. advertisers, sponsors and fans gotta be looking at his purse right now like... :eat:
 

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Lol, this was a thread blaming Manny like I assume yall wanted but yet you still want it to be about Floyd?
Because this wont receive half the hate or criticism that floyd faced

Manny will be white peoples hero for valiently fighting and colllecting 100 million dollars and floyd is the reason why manny didnt perform up to par
 

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Because this wont receive half the hate or criticism that floyd faced

Manny will be white peoples hero for valiently fighting and colllecting 100 million dollars and floyd is the reason why manny didnt perform up to par
What's your point though? What are you proving and to whom? This site is literally 99% pro Mayweather and this was an anti-Pacquiao thread.
 
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