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[BrutalBodyShots]

90% of the time the family reaction isn't significant. Rarely do you see a wife crying or shouting. They cut to them just watching the fight, perhaps concerned. I get that, and I don't need to see it. Obviously a wife is going to be concerned if her husband is getting his ass kicked. But show me the fighter in the corner, because I'd much rather see what his corner says, what he says, how he's breathing, his cut(s), etc - ANYTHING more significant than his onlooking spouse.

And Spyder I disagree that showing these cuts adds any value to the "event" that you'd get being there live. Live you'd never see any of these family members unless you're seated ringside. To me it adds no value to the telecast but rather takes away from it.

I have no problem with them showing the family before the fight during the anthems or whatever or doing a little family piece prior to the fight. During the fight it in my view only detracts from the bout, ESPECIALLY when it happens a half dozen times per fight which is easily the case recently.

Going back to the Chavez fight for example, there must have been at least 20 times that we saw either Chavez' pops, his wife, or Martinez' brother. What did any of those cuts do for us as the viewer? I would much rather have had 20 more listens in Chavez' or Martinez' corner to see/hear what was going on there. None of the family cuts were value-adding. Maybe seeing Chavez Sr. yell once (emotion) at his son/corner, I'll give you that. But Chavez' wife and Martinez' brother were useless, time wasting images.