[...]"We still have time and I want to keep him," Greenburg said, declining to discuss specifics. “"Larry is still throwing the 95 miles per hour fastball and hitting the corners. He's the soul of HBO boxing and he has been for 28 years, since the day I hired him.
"He's a fixture on this network and I'm his biggest champion. He's the closest thing that exists to Howard Cosell in sports television today."
Bob Raissman, the New York Daily News' television critic, railed against the potential departure of Merchant and the possible promotion of Max Kellerman from the "Boxing After Dark" team into Merchant's slot as lead analyst on "World Championship Boxing."
In his column on Sunday, Raissman said "this would be like replacing Picasso with the guy who sells the Velvet Elvises outside of Graceland." He praised Merchant's willingness to ask tough questions during post-fight interviews and said replacing him with Kellerman "will signal a lowering of journalistic standards" at HBO Sports.
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