Al Bernstein did his usual "the white boxer is much bigger" at the beginning of the fight. Saying the white boxer has some kind of an advantage is a trick they always use. Sometimes he'll say the white fighter has the advantage of being "more experienced" if the white fighter is older, or "has the advantage of being younger" if the white fighter is younger.
Max Kellerman and Teddy Atlas always do that when they think a white fighter is going to win, so to discredit the win: they'll say the white boxer has an advantage in youth, size, experience, the black fighter came in on shorter notice, etc. Kellerman was going on about Kovalev being "huge" and "much bigger" when he fought Agnew, but also "bigger" (thicker and more muscular) when he fought the taller, longer Sillakh.
The truth is, Russell and Lomachenko were the same weight at the weigh-in, and weighed virtually the same on fight night.
If a stocky white fighter fought a taller slimmer black fighter, Bernstein would say something like "(the white boxer) is the bigger man, he has a thicker frame and bone structure".
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