Skysports riding the balls of fighters..

Dude I muted Mayweather/Marquez after round 2. It was almost making me feel ill physically listening to them jack off to Mayweather beating an overmatched opponent.

 

I hear you. I think they believe its in their job description to go overboard with all the adjectives.

As GazOC said the other day, you really do notice how wank they are when you listen to an American broadcast. Be it Showtime or even HBO who are a little more prone to hyperbole they mostly just commentate on the actual fight.

 

I've recently got the Benn v McClellan fight with American commentary and its really good .. Ferdie Pacheco and Steve Albert, i think it was a Showtime show, i thought they were spot on .... British commentators go way over the top, they try and add excitement but its usually always bull**** .. I remember some Ian Darke commentaries were he was just making weird noises when a punch landed, these noises were usually 'WOAHHHH' or 'OOOOOOO LOOK AT THAT, WOULD YOU LOOK AT THIS WOOOOOO' ....

The most annoying commentaries are when British commentators commentate on British fighters and Duke Mckenzie and John Rawlings are the worst, the brit guy will throw a 5 punch combination, 'obviously' missing 4 of the shots but Mckenzie and Rawlings will compare it to something Sugar Ray Leonard would have done in his heyday .. Total bull****

 

have you watched a HBO fight recently?? there terrible.


i really think you lot are giving sky a hard time. Setanta were no different. Buncey has his favourites and never says a bad thing about them.

also did you not here sky commentating on Haye, there number 1 fighter with Hatton out of the picture??

 

On Setanta I told you when I was polishing a turd - a turd can still be in a great fight and being in a great fight on a great night does not make you a great fighter.

Adios.

 

Jim Watt is a waste of time.... he should be let go.

 

I think if you spend a lot of time on ESB it becomes shocking to hear PBF not be constantly ridiculed

 

anyone heard antonio tarver on amercian t.v. (can't remember which network). He is precise, articulate, excellent to listen to.
Over here we focus too much on odds. The commentators do see the flaws in a fight, but there is no-one who can analyse them in a second like for example teddy atlas, and put it into technical terms.

 

I don't think your a great commentator Steve, but as a pundit your excellent. I'm so bored with the sky panel. The interactivity of your show made it fun and good viewing.... You wonder how sky can continually be so short sighted with regards to boxing.... Do they have the same problem with tennis, rugby etc

 

I think Sky's coverage of rugby and cricket is excellent.

The coverage of boxing is probably the weakest of any sport they do cover.

 

To be totally honest i dont rate any of the sky team, there all dire useless wankers. Nicky piper being the worst with jim watt a second. Setanta had woodhall and rawling who worked quite well imo. My favourite combination would be wee barry and rawling. As much as i love buncy the guy is inept when it comes to picking winners, barry breaks a fight down and usually gets it right. Watt showed his skills when i got the haye fight all wrong.

 

Does anyone remember the setanta commentary of Rees vs Kotelnik, Woodhall and Rawlings had it even coming into the 12th.

Buncey on Captain Huck, talked him up to be the new Gatti. Never mentioned that the opponents Abraham and Huck were fighting were complete crap.

 

Duke McKenzie = Worst commentator OF ALL TIME :deal

 

Yeah he is pretty gash, rawling is good tho imo.