Larry “Vodka Breath” Merchant Will Call His Last Boxing Fight on HBO Saturday
Larry Merchant, 81, is hanging up his microphone. HBO announced today that the legendary boxing announcer will call his final fight for the network Saturday. He’d been with the network 35 years. This remains the funniest thing I’ve ever read about Merchant:
It was Larry Merchant whose inane lipid-eyed commentary damages more brains than Pacquio’s right hook. Larry Merchant, the tuxedoed stooge, is boxing’s old joke told over and over again … It’s time to send the blue-eyed devil out to pasture and save us all the added indignity of watching a buffoon drown in the verbal mire of his own make.
Whoever coined the nickname ‘Vodka Breath’ needs to take a bow. I maintain it is the best nickname in announcing history.
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December 13th, 2012 at 6:07 PM
I personally will miss the guy. I enjoy seeing people being who they are and not hiding it. Too many announcers apologize for every little thing and this guy went out there completely smashed and did his thing.
December 13th, 2012 at 6:18 PM
He asked simple questions because he was dealing with boxers after a fight. Boxers are mostly dummies (who else would take punches professionally), especially after being concussed for 12 rounds. I wouldn’t expect the back and forth to be anything other than “inane”
December 13th, 2012 at 6:39 PM
He never bothered me. He was a nice bit of unintentional comedic relief after watching some damn good tense fights. I was probably laughing at him and not with him, but I’ll miss him all the same.
It was Larry Merchant whose inane lipid-eyed commentary damages more brains than Pacquio’s right hook. Larry Merchant, the tuxedoed stooge, is boxing’s old joke told over and over again … It’s time to send the blue-eyed devil out to pasture and save us all the added indignity of watching a buffoon drown in the verbal mire of his own make.
Change a few words in there and that describes Gus Johnson.
December 13th, 2012 at 6:42 PM
I recall Jay Mohr mocking Merchant on the Rome show about 15 years ago. Not sure Gawker is really breaking any new ground. Merchant is haggard and outdated.
December 13th, 2012 at 6:43 PM
Totally with you KC. Got a kick out of Merchant. Whether it was laughing with or at is immaterial, we were laughing nonetheless. Good point on Gus. When in doubt, yell
December 13th, 2012 at 6:45 PM
So is boxing though, which is why I loved the fit. He’s a relic from the glory days
December 13th, 2012 at 6:46 PM
I recall Jay Mohr mocking Merchant on the Rome show about 15 years ago.
Jay Mohr wishes he had 10% the career of Larry Merchant. And all Larry did was do some weird ass soliloquies (he was seriously talking to himself) and ask some questions every few weeks. Jay Mohr is awful. He is lucky he has pictures of Jim Rome blowing a juvenile goat.
December 13th, 2012 at 6:48 PM
When in doubt, yell
OH MY!!! A FIVE YARD PICK UP ON THE A SCREEN PASS!!! NOW WHAT DO YOU DO HERE ON A 2ND A FIVE?
December 13th, 2012 at 6:50 PM
NOW HOW DO I FILL THIS 30 SECONDS OF DOWN TIME UNTIL THE NEXT PLAY!!!!
/wonders why he left basketball
December 13th, 2012 at 6:51 PM
THANK GOD I HAVE CHARLES DAVIS, SOMEONE WHO KNOWS THE FIRST THING ABOUT FOOTBALL, TO SERVE AS MY CRUTCH!!!!
December 13th, 2012 at 6:52 PM
/wonders why he left basketball
CBS didn’t want him anymore.
/may be over-simplified.
December 13th, 2012 at 6:53 PM
He probably left CBS because they let Jim Nantz call the Final Four
/ben franklin’d
December 13th, 2012 at 7:06 PM
This is the best news I’ve heard all day. Wish he left years ago.
December 13th, 2012 at 7:21 PM
about time
December 13th, 2012 at 8:01 PM
Any word on who the new guy is going to be?
/crosses fingers and hopes it is Mike Tyson.
December 14th, 2012 at 12:03 PM
I was flying from Vegas to LA on a Sunday around 8 am. As I’m walking through first class, who do I see? Ol’ Larry Merchant chugging a bloody mary. At 8 am the day after a Vegas fight.
December 14th, 2012 at 3:59 PM
the best part of that video is the boxer, a guy whose whole life is punching and getting punched, barely blinks