It is intended to be a continuing relationship. How long it will last? Will you only be calling real fights, or will you participate in the influencer or legend fights that Triller is staging? What are the specifics of your Triller deal. And now I have to question how in the world can a guy with all that talent and all these possibilities in front of him manage to test positive for COVID at this moment in time? So that was striking, a beachhead for what could be a really meaningful career.
Lopez walked into the ring with (Lomachenko) and made him look like he wasn’t there. 1 pound-for-pound guy with a lot of extremely compelling logic behind it.
They made the type of offer where you look at it and say, ‘OK, if someone is this aggressive and passionate about wanting your services, then this is more or less take it or leave it.’ My frame of mind was, ‘Take it,’ because the first fight I was calling involved the Fighter of the Year, the guy who took down the guy (Vasiliy Lomachenko) who (former HBO analyst) Max Kellerman and other experts had helped build into the consensus No. Triller made a very spirited, very forthright offer, which was clearly intended to be a close-out. I won’t talk about conversations with anybody else. Why was it Triller? I know DAZN had interest in you. I’ve been talking about it a lot in recent weeks, and I’ll return to once again work to stimulate audience interest in Lopez-Kambosos for August 14. And it won’t be any less so because of this (delay). and I’m excited to explore those possibilities in the years ahead.Īmid this, how fierce was your desire to return to call boxing matches?įierce. There are going to be other things happening under the banner of my Atticus Entertainment Inc. I’m still very interested in producing other projects and I’m working on getting the rights to a particular article right now. I won’t be working with John, and that’s kind of interesting because he’s a fellow University of North Carolina graduate with the same degree I have in English Literature. Will you be taking your work elsewhere, perhaps John Skipper’s Meadowlark Media?
I was bought out of HBO and I was grateful to be bought out because it was abundantly clear that the new AT&T regime was not going to be easy for me to work with. So this has been your only work? You had told me when HBO went dark from boxing that you were looking forward to some documentary projects with HBO. ‘These guys are actually cooperating and agreeing with those on the other side of the table?’ ‘Yes, that’s because we understood truth through conventional wisdom at that period of time.’ That was a remarkable revelation for them.” I showed them video of the Senate Watergate hearings and they saw Republican senators pushing (impeachment), and their minds were blown. The students get very excited about the provocative nature of the material. It’s a seminar discussion course leading to a fairly vibrant discussion going on about the American convention of truth, the subject of objective truth in media reporting, the questions of, ‘Where did our agreed-upon conventions go? And is it important to get them back for the sake of democracy?’
#BOXING COMMENTATOR JIM CODE#
I teach one course that I invented and created from the ground up titled, “Evolution of Storytelling in American Electronic News Media.” It is a 100-year history beginning with Morse code of radio transmissions all the way to the current environment in which a 17-year-old girl with a cell phone can hit record on her camera and create one of the largest news stories in the world (the George Floyd murder). That’s a fancy way of saying I don’t have a Ph.D. I am a professor of the practice in the Department of Communications. You’re living and teaching now in North Carolina. In a conversation minutes after learning Lopez had COVID, Lampley expressed high hopes for the young champion, enthusiasm for the future of the fight game and sounded revitalized for his return to the microphone. During his absence, he has returned home to teach at the University of North Carolina while parting ways with HBO, embracing new media while holding tight to the journalistic standards that defined his career. Lopez’s positive COVID-19 result last Tuesday moved the bout to August 14, when Lampley, 72, is expected to call the action alongside former welterweight champion Shawn Porter.Īs lead broadcaster for HBO’s World Championship Boxing for 30 years, Lampley became the sport’s prominent voice during an era that included the reigns of Mike Tyson, Evander Holyfield, Oscar De La Hoya, Floyd Mayweather Jr.
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