Who works on these pages haha. https://www.skysports.com/boxing/ne...-rubbishes-rumours-hes-set-for-april-comeback
Sky Sports Boxing Youtube page is pretty good. They have a number of full undercards and fights posted. This content is protected This content is protected This content is protected This content is protected This content is protected
Sky sports is trash. Filming fights from silly cinematic angles so they can help fix fights. They are perfect for the commercial Larrys tho
Their website is a complete mess. Looks like its been designed under the assumption that all sports fans have an IQ of less than 70 and lose concentration if any article contains more than 100 words. Also the front page is completely disorganised, so no one is ever going to go there directly and look for news. They are only going to click from other sites.
I never use their website, as it is embarrassing, clearly biased & guaranteed to make you cringe So many decent outlets for boxing news out there, no ones got no needs to read sky's BS, great for the casual boxing/general sports fan though I suppose
Watch hbo or showtime fights and compare the coverage to sky. They film in the classic full ring style, where footwork is visible etc. With sky you are lucky to get any angle other than sweaty backs all fight. Making it much easier to implement hearns corrupt fixes. Ksab?
Explain! Do SKY predict what punches are thrown and then hide them via odd angles? How does it work? Are we seeing a different fight?
I'm not sure what he means, but I did notice the single worst camerawork I've ever seen not long ago. It might have been for Chisora vs Whyte. I remember making note of it multiple times in the RBR here. It was real amateur hour stuff now that HBO has gotten out of the business. At one time they had the camera fly slowly over the fighters like "Booooooo, I'm a ghost camera!" They couldn't frame for ****, had all kinds of weird angles. Everything was terrible.
The weirdest fight coverage recently was the Pulev-Hughie Fury fight. The British commentators even made a note of it. But they added the footage was being provided by the Bulgarian television network broadcasting the fight. They were just playing the footage provided. The commentators said it looked like the director was trying to win an Oscar instead of covering a fight. During the rounds, he'd cut away from the fight and show various people in the audience reacting to stuff the viewer couldn't see. He'd have a camera crew during the fight in the back row of the arena showing the whole crowd watching the fight, but the boxers in the ring fighting were so tiny you couldn't see them (during the round). It as bizarre, to say the least. I don't know if that aired on Sky in England, but they weren't filming it. (It aired on ESPN+ in the States.) A crew/director from Bulgaria was supplying the feed - a director who will probably never get another assignment. It was bad. At least a minute of every round wasn't shown because he kept cutting to cornermen's faces. Or the audiences' faces. Or weird shots from the last row or high above the ring. Somebody needed to call the booth where the director was sitting and say, "Some people might be trying to watch the fight. Try keeping your camera on the boxers during the round."
It aired on Ch 5 in the UK and I'm guessing you were hearing the same commentary we were as they also made repeated apologies. Of course as a keen follower of Bulgarian culture I was delighted to see those famous faces that we've come to know and love. Slapperovitch and Hagolov were there as was Munterovich and of course Krasimir Bolokov. With A list celebs like that on hand it was disappointing every time they cut away to the boxing.
