"[Floyd] Mayweather, a 31-year-old former Olympic bronze medalist from Grand Rapids, told The Grand Rapids Press in an interview Friday that [HBO] 'is great,' but criticized its boxing announcers. 'They talk about Kelly Pavlik, a white fighter, like he’s the second coming. Or they go crazy over Manny Pacquiao. But I’m a black fighter,' Mayweather said. 'Is it racial? Absolutely. They praise white fighters, they praise Hispanic fighters, whatever. But black fighters, they never praise.' HBO Sports president Ross Greenburg said in a statement that the network, which has carried many of Mayweather’s fights, was disappointed to hear of the boxer’s remarks and denied his claims."
I don't know if Jim Lampley is racist, but he definetly has a problem with Floyd Mayweather. He has knocked him for years and would always take pokes at him for his out of the ring problems. Even though he has been charged with the same type of problems and wouldn't talk about other white boxers problems like Arturo Gatti. I also have noticed that Lampley is way more pro mexican when it comes to boxing than anything else. Just last week he was rooting for David Diaz when he was being beat by Manny Pacquio. Maybe its just that he likes the fighting style and has nothing to do with race. He also hates any eastern european fighter that has ever been on hbo. They have been called boring and have no heart. I would be skeptical of this except that a well respected boxer like Winky Wright agrees. That makes you have to wonder why he thought Mosley lost to Cotto and why they constantly knocked Roy Jones during his last few fights.