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Larry Merchant (born Larry Kaufman; February 11, 1931) is an American sportswriter, a longtime commentator for HBO sports presentations of HBO World Championship Boxing, Boxing After Dark and HBO pay-per-view telecasts, called "the greatest television boxing analyst of all time" by some, including ESPN Boxing analyst Dan Rafael.
Dec 22, 2023 · The 92-year-old boxing broadcaster, who worked for HBO for decades, was taken to a hospital last night, TMZ reports. Merchant was known for his commentary and clashes with boxers like Floyd Mayweather Jr.
Feb 17, 2021 · Larry Merchant went to his first boxing match at Madison Square Garden in the 1940s, then spent decades as a newspaperman in Philadelphia and New York before serving as HBO’s commentator from...
Larry Merchant is a sports commentator and former boxing writer who has appeared in movies such as I Spy, The Fighter and Rocky Balboa. He was born in Brooklyn, New York, in 1931 and has one child with his wife Patricia Stich.
In this ongoing series detailing the “Best I Covered” of veteran boxing commentators, these are Larry Merchant’s picks: Best Boxer: “The first big fight I actually covered was Sugar Ray Robinson versus Carmen Basilio. Robinson was past his prime but you could still see how great he once was.
Legendary sportswriter and HBO commentator Larry Merchant, per the latest news, appears to have been hospitalized. Currently, he is in the intensive care unit (ICU) of a Los Angeles-based...
Dec 14, 2012 · A Hall of Fame broadcaster, Merchant plans to keep working in some capacity. He came up through newspapers and has written books as well. Larry, unequivocally the most important voice in...
