I was watching a boxing match on HBO tonight. It was a very boring fight. One guy was running the whole time, the other guy was chasing him and not throwing any punches. Honestly, they both deserved to not win.
Anyway, the HBO announcers, who I normally like, kept going on and on about how the guy who was running was "easily" winning the fight. They were saying it wasn't even close, and that it was a shutout.
This was driving me insane because I saw it differently. I thought it was about even. It was very frustrating. Not only that, I felt like they were setting up the audience for "outrage" when the judges announced their scores. It felt like a setup, and that it was misleading.
Meanwhile on twitter, the boxing writers for ESPN and Sports Illustrated were posting their scores after every round. And they both had it close.
At one point I said, "I wish someone would tell these announcers that other boxing experts at this fight are disagreeing with them right now, and maybe they are talking themselves into something that isn't happening".
Well, in round 11, Jim Lampley says: "The producers in the truck are telling me that several boxing writers on twitter are disagreeing with us about the scoring in this fight, and believe this is close".
Awesome.
That's all I wanted to hear. It made me so happy. That is great producing. And it changed the way they called the fight. They didn't change their mind, but they at least acknowledged it might be going differently.
HBO gave every round but one to the guy who ran, and their scorecard had it 118-109.
The 3 judges had it 114-113, 115-112, and 116-111.
There are so many times where I yell at the TV for something to happen, and it never does. And this time, it did. So props to the boys in the truck.
Saturday, 13 April 2013
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