Listening to the BT show tonight, I really can't stand Thomas Treiber's voice. It's only slightly less annoying than David Diamante (Diamante) and if it's a ranking, the new guy on Sky/Boxxer is really bad. What happened to Craig Stephen getting some of these gigs? Even Mark Burdis who used to do a few Warren / BoxNation shows was better than the current lot. Know this all sounds petty but announcers and MCs are all part of the boxing show experience - I used to love the 80s/90s fights with Alan Hughes and his old-school "my lords, ladies and gentlemen" intro - and nobody beats Jimmy Lennon Jr (or Howard Finkel in his WWF days). Today's aren't a patch on those and it was great to have Lennon back on the Fury-Wilder fight. What say the forum?
A real annoyance of mine at the minute is Diamante when announcing the winner... he’ll start talking in the winners language or some pointless info. Was watching Garcia v Martin the other week and didn’t have a clue who’d won for 20 seconds while Diamante was doing his best Spanish impression. Agree on Jimmy Lennon being the best.
I totally agree with you. Craig Stephen is a class act. I would love to see him on the big stage in the UK.
Agreed on Treiber, he just feels third rate. I am actually warming to Diamante, at least for the pre-fight announcement. His "The Fight Starts NOW" is starting to get a bit of a reaction - it was very good on Saturday in New York. However the way he goes for "winner by RSC" when we've just seen a TKO does grate.
What happened to Michael Pass - he was good at his job. Craig Stephen is much better than Diamante and John McDonald wasted on the darts
Matchroom briefly used John McDonald from the darts but he wasn't a great fit (from memory he did Froch-Groves 1 for Sky) - it's quite a specialist thing getting boxing right, especially with the amount of nonsense they're asked to read out from the governing bodies these days. I still laugh at the odd watch of Buffer reading out an announcement for Donald Trump which was longer than the following one for Muhammad Ali - but his delivery of "maybe the greatest of ALL TIME" still rings in the ears. It's an art.
So does “Dean Whyte”. Announcers are part of the sport to the extent the BBBofC licenses them. You’d think the TV would insist on the best available.
