RIP Harry Carpenter

[DirectorDave]

A great servant to Boxing and Sport......I will never forget staying up till 5am listening to his commentary on the first Tyson v Bruno fight.

A sad loss.....but a life well lived.

RIP Harry.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/front_page/8580058.stm

[Phil Carter]

Dave..totally agree..... My favourite from him was his total proffessional astonishment when Joe Bugner robbed Henry Cooper..with one of the worst referring decisions in boxing history. Still today I can hear his voice telling us all how disgusted he was.

A great commentator. RIP Harry.

best wishes

Phil

[ChrisGeorge]

A great servant to Boxing and Sport......I will never forget staying up till 5am listening to his commentary on the first Tyson v Bruno fight.

A sad loss.....but a life well lived.

RIP Harry.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/front_page/8580058.stm

Thanks for posting this. I do remember boxing commentator Harry Carpenter from when I lived in the UK to go to school in Liverpool in the Sixties... though I admit it took me a few moments to place the name!

Incidentally I was astonished a few weeks ago to see the scrawl across the bottom of a Sky News broadcast... carried over here on Fox Soccer Channel... and to realise that old-time British racing car driver Stirling Moss is still alive... he's age 80 and had fallen down a lift shaft and broken both his ankles. I haven't thought about him for years and would have thought he might have passed away before now. My late father, who died in 1979, used to refer to him as "Stirling Mustard."

[Monty]

The only time he lost his composure....

....'Tyson is hurt....get in there Frank'

In that brief moment he was one of us.

A legend.

[Stephen Thomas]

A sad loss.....but a life well lived.

RIP Harry.

Well said Dave

That guy was the tops in his field and a true British gentleman

[Robert]

I remember him once, when he was a link man, being handed over to by Peter West because rain had interrupted Wimbledon. He said, "Peter West knows how it feels to be rained off" and gave a grin.

Peter West, of course, was a cricket commentator.

[ianincleveland]

RIP Harry a thoroughly decent man.Ill never forget him in the Seoul Olympics in 1988 when Roy Jones was denied a gold medal by what was literally a fix giving a korean the win.harry says "well ive seen it all now.Did they even watch the fight?"