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Boxing Broadcast Legend Larry Merchant Rushed to Hospital in Critical Condition

Legendary boxing broadcaster Larry Merchant was rushed to the hospital Thursday and is reportedly in vital situation.

The 92-year-old broadcaster was taken to the hospital at 6 p.m. on Dec. 21, in accordance to TMZ.

Merchant was a fixture on HBO’s boxing protection and served as an analyst on the community’s World Championship Boxing and Boxing After Dark reveals and its pay-per-view matches.

The broadcaster began as a sports activities author for the New York Post in 1965 and wrote three books on boxing. He even had roles in the movies Rocky Balboa and The Fighter.

Merchant was awarded the Sam Taub Memorial Award for Excellence in Boxing Broadcast Journalism by the BWAA in 1985.

He retired in 2012 after 35 years in broadcasting and, in 2018, known as his profession “an incredibly amazing journey.” However, he did make a couple of appearances afterward.

ESPN’s Dan Rafael has known as Merchant “the greatest television boxing analyst of all time.”

But not everybody was a fan. Merchant was criticized on the air by boxing nice Floyd Mayweather Jr., who refused to discuss to him and pointedly insisted, “HBO need to fire you. You don’t know s–t about boxing. You ain’t s–t … All of these boxing experts—how can you be a boxing expert if you never had a fight before?”