![]() ![]() Yet I reviewed the broadcast and Howard seemed rather kind to Daniel. What exactly is Cosell supposed to say about him in that amount of time to be ‘fair and impartial’? He can’t even say the guy is taking punches well, lol. I would bet anything Howard was better and more successful at his job than the little men you’re holding up as examples were at theirs.ĭaniel Gonzalez lasted 123 seconds with Ray Leonard. But to pour a drink over someone’s head while they’re doing the job they’re paid to do? That’s terrible behavior. It was popular to hate Cosell and razz him because he was pompous. Sounds very low-class to pour beer on someone and try to take off their toupee and then say it’s the person being bullied/picked on’s fault. What’s the biggest crowd he even drew in his hometown (or anywhere) fighting anyone else - so the people who showed up weren’t there to see him either. While I respected the fact that Cosell was a registered attorney, he was never fair.Ĭlick to expand.I don’t know that a broadcaster has to be ‘call it down the middle.’ The audience wasn’t tuning in to see Daniel Gonzalez. Cosell had to hide in an alley behind the Community Center. ![]() This fight was nationally televised by ABC. In my hometown during the Sugar Ray Leonard vs Daniel Gonzales bout on Main which I attended and had the pleasure of running into Carlos Monzon, the fans booed Cosell, he let it known that he favored Leonard instead of calling the fight down the middle, someone intentionally spilled beer on his toupee, another person walked by and attempted to pull it off. In commentating you have to be impartial, not on any fighters side. Lampley was a diehard Tyson fan while Foreman should have voted for Oscar De La Hoya for President. Ali would chop down an opponent, Cosell would criticize Ali. ![]() Cosell was part of an act with Muhammad Ali, sort of a Jerry Lewis and Dean Martin duo. But Howard Cosell was not a very impartial commentator, he was like Jim Lampley and George Foreman were later. While I respected the fact that Cosell was a registered attorney, he was never fair. ![]() Just didn’t connect with me.Ĭlick to expand.Respect your opinion. I do understand those of a certain era for whom he might be more like ‘comfort food’ and a familiar voice of their time. I think he was serviceable and could sit ringside and tell you what was going on before your eyes, but to my ears he didn’t greatly enhance it. (He was also saddled as TV became more of the medium for big fights with terrible ‘celebrity’ color men who he would have to ask inane questions to to get them to talk and then go along with whatever incoherent thing they blathered, which was no help to Dunphy for sure.’ I never found him to be expertly insightful (which I can forgive) nor greatly at ease like he was having a conversation with the audience nor very poetic - he didn’t capture (for me) moments the way, say, Cosell did with ‘Down Goes Frazier, Down Goes Frazier, Down Goes Frazier’ or make the event feel bigger. He’s not far from the ‘a left-and-a-right-and-a-left’ style, followed by the opponent coming back with ‘a left-and-a-right-and-alert.’ To me he’s sort of a radio style broadcaster (which is understandable given the time he came up all broadcasters came from radio) who didn’t really grasp (as most of his day didn’t) the new medium of television that much … people who grew up with TV were much better fits with it IMO. I understand he was the ‘voice of boxing’ forever but he is a creature of his time and the style of that time didn’t connect with me much. ![]()
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