Boxing analyst Larry Merchant, 92, is 'rushed to a Los Angeles-area hospital after suffering a medical emergency and remains in critical care' more than a decade after he retired from HBO
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Larry Merchant, the famed HBO boxing commentator and journalist, has reportedly been rushed to a Los Angeles-area hospital, where he remains in critical care.
TMZ is reporting that Merchant was taken to the hospital at 6pm on Thursday, although the exact cause of the emergency has not been reported yet.
The 92-year-old Merchant is best known for his years with HBO, where he worked with Jim Lampley, George Foreman, Roy Jones Jr., and the late Harold Lederman, among others.
He's also been repeatedly referred to as 'the greatest television boxing analyst of all time' by longtime ringside reporter, Dan Rafael.
Merchant was inducted into the International Boxing Hall of Fame in Canastota, New York in 2009.
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Larry Merchant, the famed HBO boxing commentator and journalist, has reportedly been rushed to a Los Angeles-area hospital, where he remains in critical care
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Larry Merchant of HBO and Ronald 'Winky' Wright are pictured in Las Vefas in 2004
Promoter and former HBO executive Lou DiBella led an outpouring of concern on social media.
'Prayers up for a great man, my dear friend Larry,' DiBella wrote on X.
Merchant famously got into a post-fight argument with Floyd Mayweather Jr. in 2011 after the undefeated boxer knocked out Victor Ortiz.
'They can put somebody else up here to give me an interview,' the irate Mayweather told the unflappable Merchant. 'HBO need to fire you. You don't know s*** about boxing. You aint s***.'
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Promoter and former HBO executive Lou DiBella led an outpouring of concern on social media
Merchant did not hesitate to respond.
'I wish I was 50 years younger, I'd kick your a**,' Merchant told Mayweather.
The two reconciled in 2012.
The Brooklyn-born reporter's original last name was Kaufman, but fearing anti-Semitism in media companies, he changed it to it's literal English translation: Merchant.