![]() But I did a crash to get ready for this, including full rundowns on all the weight classes. I haven’t had background and informational materials sent to me every week, which always was the case in the past. Have you kept your eye on boxing matches during this break, and do you feel as connected and aware of the sport as you were while at HBO? ![]() HBO commentators Lennox Lewis and Jim Lampley at the FedEx Forum on in Memphis, Tennessee. 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?’ 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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