The Sky commentators were awful.

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theyre very grandoise about the whole thing.

rather than analyzing the fight, pulling up serious history/facts and good observations they seem to commentate on it being a specticle. they really capture a fantasy of it all. which is alright i spose, if you're 15

 

They ignored every shot Marquez landed, and by the sounds of some people here, so did a lot of spectators. It was one-sided, but Marquez made a fight of it I felt.

 

The Sky boxing team is awful full ****ing stop. Johnny Nelson is the only one I have any time for.

Give me Rosenthal, Rawling, Woodhall (or even Duke), McGuigan etc. over those clowns anyday

Jim Watt does my damn head in.

 

To be fair, the commentary was pretty reflective of the truth. They accurately stated the fact that Marquez was way out of his depth.

However, I wasn't too impressed with how the Sky commentators and pundits were ignoring the fact that Mayweather was picking on a guy 2 weight divisions smaller than him. I wonder how the HBO team saw the events of last night....

 

TBF Watt did emphasise the size difference several times

 

Not at all. They ignored every shot landed by Marquez, and they tried to say it should have been stopped by the 11th round. What the hell were they watching? it was one-sided, but Juan didn't look close to being stopped.

 

I don't know what commentary you guys were listening to, but the sky one I heard was bang on. Floyd was dominating Marquez - no, he wasn't beating him up - but he won every round, never looked in trouble and barely go hit. And Jim Watt said two or three times pre-fight that he didn't think Marquez had a chance of winning and recognized the weight was a factor.

And Jim Watt's scorecards are usually spot on.

 

He did to me. In fact by the last couple of rounds it almost looked like PBF was carrying him.

 

Mayweather tried to get Marquez out of there in the 11th. He failed. Marquez landed good shots that went unnoticed by the commentary team and they wanted it stopping in the 11th round. Unbelievably bad commentating. Marquez was getting outjabbed, he wasn't eating power shots with regularity.

 

Towards the end Marquez was in truth beginning to take flush shots from the bigger and stronger Floyd. Whilst I agree Marquez wasn't in serious trouble to warrant a stoppage, I was actually thinking Mayweather was getting nearer to to finishing him off, but Marquez's heart and grit just didn't allow him to do it.

 

But you have to admit they were insignificant shots, because they didn't trouble Floyd, not one bit. Whereas Marquez was bothered everytime he was hit, and they were really taking their toll.

 

Irrelevant. He landed good shots and the commentary didn't say a word. Their job is to call the action. Even a "That's a good right hand, but it doesn't seem to phase floyd" would have been good enough.

 

Virtuoso performance from Mayweather, however dismissing every JMM shot that landed was cringe worthy. Mayweather is going to teach JMM a lesson now, heard that a few times, English lesson maybe.

 

I don't see a lot of Sky's boxing these days, this fight included...saw it elsewere. Anyway, I think there's more chance of them abandoning the international fights altogether rather than totally overhauling their coverage. Part of the reason I got rid of Sky in the first place was a lack of big fight coverage and to be honest back then I was just glad to see the boxing at all.