AT 82, Barry Tompkins should be slowing down. But listen to him call the ShoBox fights on Showtime or any number of sports these days, and the Hall of Famer may just be getting started on the next chapter of his stellar career behind the mic.
And that’s fine with him.
“More than anything else, it keeps me around young people and, as a result of that, I think it keeps me in the game, so to speak,” said Tompkins when asked about motivation. “I like the way young people think, my crew is all half my age, and I really enjoy it. I like talking to them, I want to know what’s going on in the world–I’m not going to get into a conversation about hip-hop music [laughs], but I think in its own way, it, relatively speaking, keeps me young. And that’s really why I do it. Plus, I enjoy live television. There’s
