Mike Costello's contract expired at DAZN.

Adam Smith did a fantastic job :

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Get Jim Watt, Darke and Mcrorry back. Costello was alright on the radio commentary far better than banana thumb discombobulated Ronald Macintosh. Who remembers the profile on here ‘Ronald Macintosh’s thumb hahah?

 

More of a Gutteridge / Watt man myself.

 

Paul Dempsey in the studio and Ian Darke on commentary with Glenn McCrory were my favourite combination.

Reg Gutteridge was also very good ITV, quite liked Harry Carpenter BBC both those two loved boxing, Harry of course those of us a certain vintage will remember his love for Frank Bruno which he couldn't disguise his bias in fights not just the Tyson first fight!

 

Adam Smith and Jim watt. That's the combo I'd like to have seen.

 

Smith is a salesman and he's very good at it. Exactly what DAZN are looking for. Costello was a great analyst before and used to enjoy him on radio and his podcasts with Bunce but he sold out to DAZN who obviously require a certain level of bias from their team. I'm glad he left and hopefully he goes back to what he does best.

 

Yup, cracking pair they were, along the likes of Jim Watt and Reg Gutteridge.

 

The last few years Ian Darke has popped up on football commentary formally BT now of course called TNT.

Surely I can't of been the only person thinking when a team went say 3-0 up 70m gone I really hoped Darke would of said something like 'the ref should really be jumping in and stopping this'.

He is decent with the football but to me always think of him as a boxing commentator, Paul Dempsey has done football also so likewise!

 

Yep, 1 million per cent.

 

THOSE ARE ARUM PUNCHES REG!

 

Costello didn't suit TV purely because he started off on radio where you need to talk every single second. He carried that on in TV and made it seem like he was commentating on horseracing. Any fool could have seen this. Surprised the idiots at DAZN and Eddie didn't see this.

 

I remember clearly when Costello took the job, he said he wanted to test himself on TV, so he was pretty open that it was something new.

I really hope he finds a home back on free-to-air radio where he can describe the fight and then hand over to a co-commentator instead of filling time around an ad break. He was a master of that.

 

Smith has reverted to the disease of Jim Neily.....thou shall talk about the pre fight build up in tangents and clichés rather than calling the actual fight action in front of you.