The Boxing Hour IMHO. Ringside is/ was great but there was stuff on the Boxing Hour that you wouldn't get anywhere else.
Ringside is good I like the fact you get to see the action and have a few folk discussing it. However, it is a 60 minute advert for sky programmes which I can't stand. They wont give an objective view on things as everything has to promote their product. They also ignore anything that is happening which isn't being shown on sky as well which is also a joke. Buncey's show by a mile for me.
Buncey's Boxing Hour was interactive and just had a real fans feel about it as well as madness of it being live. I do like Ringside and get the impression it's a show in progress. I get impression there scanning the boards and fans thoughts as well as putting there own touch on it and will continue to develop it and make a real go of it. Smith wants to do best by fans so far...hope it continues.
Buncey's show/ Setanta didn't care about the rights owners they reported on any sport/ even the boxing on sky they did the whole spectrum... Sky only promoter there own fighters (which makes economical and business sense) *people may argue about Froch but it took them a while to recognise his achievements* unfortunately it cons the real fans
bunceys boxing hour pisses allover ringside even if it was on for 5 mins vs an hour of ringside....... buncey used to have froch on nearly every week on the phone if i remember right. basically buncey had every brit fighter on the phone or in the studio at one point and some overseas fighters too, not just setanta fighters. bunce and adam smith were a cracking double team, i think he was called adam smith anyway, i could be wrong its been a while since ive seen bunces boxing hour.... anyhoo, bunces boxing hour all the way!
It is great that we have a boxing magazine show again and I like ringside especially the segment which they did with Booth v Bonte on the Haye/Klit negotiations - that was class. However, Ringside is very scripted and cautiously follows the Sky party line i.e. their product. Bunce Boxing Hour was totally unscripted, rammed with guests, both in the studio and on the phone and they were industry wide rather than channel focused. It was much more loose and entertaining. Ringside could be improved by getting rid of Johnny Nelson who is ****ing useless and talks the first crap that randomly enters his head most of the time. Hopefully Adam Smith can improve boxing on Sky this year - but I will not hang my hat on that until I see the evidence. I am not totally convinced that those posh guys at Sky are the real boxing fans that they try to make out.
Boxing hour hands down imo. The fans were much more involved with Steves show and he would get the guests that the fans asked for on here and other sites. SKY dont listen to the fans at all.
I like Johnny Nelson, Its Adam Smith I have reservations about. I think Nelson gives you a decent insight into the mind and mentality of an ex boxer and is probably less likely to toe the party line. Adam Smith to me comes across like a tabloid newspaper journalist- attempts to be controversial and sensationalist. I think he also callled Audley Harrisson "a disgrace"- what would he know about the bottle it takes to step inside a ring?
Bunce hour!! Even with Sky's budget they can't compare with the Boxing Hour. Sky's all scripted, a lot of pre-recorded stuff that's alright but the Bunce show was an hour of unpredictable madness. You'd have no idea who was going to turn up and the fans were involved a lot more. Actually, the best bit on Ringside so far has being Booth/Boente. Sky should do a lot more of that, putting two rivals up against each other live. Can do it for Groves and DeGale or Macklin and Barker...Would really get people interested in some domestic fights.