I hate Jim Watt

Its quite telling one of the main criticisms of Watt are for Haye/valuev which was a year and a half ago. He had an off night, even commentators are allowed them. Everyone makes a bad scorecard now and again. That said, a lot of his criticisms were valid, Haye did throw a **** amount of punches. Even Holyfield and Chagaev threw more.

Apart from that his scorecards have been acceptable and he's the only analytical member of the team really. Nelson just confuses himself with his riddles, Mcrory is dull as dishwater, Piper offers literally nothing and is more or less the Churchill nodding dog. Woodhall gets big props but I'm sure if he commentated every fight you'd be getting as annoyed with his 'believe you mes' as Watt's aruuuuum punches etc. He's mostly better because he's not doing the job, if he was people would find fault with him too.

 

Yep, its like MOTD. Hansen the dour scot needs a cheerful smiling Linekar as a counter-balance.

 

I reckon this backs up my point.

He judged what he thought would happen rather than what actually did.

 

Jim Watt is a prat. Scoring the Chris John - Rocky Juarez fight for Juarez until he sees that HBO and everyone with eyes has it for John so proceeds to give all the last rounds to John, even the 12th where John was on the verge of getting knocked out for 90% of it.

 

Haye's inactivity did happen though. He was concerned by Haye's pathetic output, especially in Germany. So in that context, his analysis was not bad.

It's just that he kept scoring rounds to Valuev when the big fella didn't land any punches that was the problem

 

I thought Watt and Darke were excellent last night. Did you hear Darke go off on one about the ref in the Katsidis fight - he questioned whether the ref was working to an agenda (i.e. for the multiple stupid points deductions off Katsidis)! It was great to hear him just speak his mind and say out loud what many of us viewers were thinking.

 

Aye, that's a slight problem

 

He does, but most commentators do tbf.

 

I do agree Watt sometimes tends to just pick a guy before the fight and then make a big deal out of trying to commentate 'to a plan'. He does have certain biases, they're pretty random as well. Its not as if he just favors the in house guys. But...he also gives strong opinions whereas many of the rest are nodding dogs so I'm not too critical about this. I'd rather put up with Watt's random biases than propping up every Sky fighter.

 

It's also worth noting that the guys in the studio scored it to Valuev too.

Says alot about Sky's team really.

 

Absolutely, I think he does a good job overall, it's just when you pick up on his perception early it drives me insane.

Overall though he is the best we got.

It's a difficult job.

 

Watt is very good IMO

 

I pity those who fail to see Jim Watt's greatness. They must be noobs or something

 

I like the guy and as you say someone with a Glasgow accent could make winning the lottery sound miserable.Also for those who hate him be careful what you wish for who else is there.

 

Watt just calls it as he see it. If you don't like it, tough titties.
And if you think you can do a better job, please post an example of you calling a fight so we can all have a laugh